Georgina Brown
Foundation Director (Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation)
“Dónal is a first-rate reader. He has acute attention to detail and recognises what’s needed to develop plot and narrative arc. He has a great understanding of character and dialogue and sees potential as well as quality. On top of which, Dónal is also a brilliant communicator – he gives clear, concise assessment and is always a pleasure to work with. ”
BAFTA Rocliffe 2024
BAFTA reader’s feedback on my pitch docs (one of the trickiest aspects of project development). For enquiries about this project please use this contact form.
“Dónal’s supporting materials are written with wit and verve: he should be commended for the way in which he has
allowed his voice to come through in a way that adds to rather than detracts from his work. The comps to Detectorists
and OF&H are smart and enhance the reader’s experience of the work– they are, truly, inspirations as opposed to models of
imitation for this script, and it shows”
Méabh O’Donavan
Head (National Film & Television School, Leeds)
“As a school we only take students that we believe will make a contribution to the industry and that is true of Donal.”
Richard Lanowe-Hall
Founder and CEO of SAILADAY OK
“Donal helped me create a sustainable fundraising strategy for my charity. Not only was he efficient and creative but he really taught me how to describe what we do to different organisations, how to speak in their language.”
Rosanna Elliot
Dramaturg & Director (Canvas Theatre)
“You clearly have a distinct and interesting voice as a writer ”
Donal understands this to be genuine praise rather than a euphemism
Dr Garyfallos Konstantinoudis
Statistician and Epidemiologist
“As an early career scientist, I find it easy communicating science to my peers, but reaching a lay audience is more challenging. Donal provided crucial advice when I was writing a lay summary that formed an important part of my successful Imperial College Research Fellowship application. During our meetings, I learnt how to be more concise, structure sentences and use simple words, so that the importance of my research is communicated in the most efficient and accessible way. ”
One of the many brilliant scientists I met during my time at Imperial
Huelwen Philpot
Head of Secretariat International Pandemic Preparedness Secretariat
“Donal worked with us to summarise the proceedings of a series of global engagement events we held, bringing together an enormous volume of complex, technical content into concise reports which were very clear and aligned brilliantly with our needs as an organisation. His collaborative style was greatly appreciated and it was a pleasure working with him”
Dr Julie King
Director of the Centre for Academic English at the Institute of Extended Learning, Imperial College, London
“Donal was very personable and was well-liked by his students. He showed enthusiasm for his work and was eager to innovate and use his creative side in the classroom to engage students and get the best out of them.”
Jack Barth
American Screenwriter
“Ha! A lot of it actually transpired that way. Except nobody told me he’d make two BBC Radio 4 episodes about how painful his genius writing process was. Or imply he hadn’t read the script that he so ham-handedly pilfered. Anyway… thanks!”
Jack’s response to my story “Tomorrow, James & The Blue Cat” that dramatises elements of Jack’s copyright battle with Richard Curtis
T.C. Anderson
Public reviewer at goodreads.com
“Among the attention-getting lengthier works [in this anthology] are short stories like Tomorrow, James, and the Blue Cat by Donal Fogarty, a meta, fourth wall-breaking dive into a career-making pitch of a screenwriter with audio and narration cues to match”
Donal Fogarty 