A Foray into Romantic Fiction

Julia Bolden has been writing drama since primary school. She had some TV experience as a child (including commercials for Smarties, Persil and Singer Sewing Machines), was a featured actor in a party-political broadcast in 1997 (Saachi Nelson Films) and in an HIV training video made at Charing Cross Hospital, London in 2013. Her main experience as a producer, director, actor and writer has been for the stage. She also works as a Medical Role Player and as a Humanist Celebrant. She has recently co-written and performed a number of short plays both for radio broadcast and online performance with Richard McNally, including the four-part Lucy and Ron for BBC Radio Cambridgeshire (2020) and Beside Themselves for Cambridge 105 (2021). Julia and Richard are co-artistic directors of WRiTEON – The Cambridge Scriptwriting Forum. Julia only got into film-making in 2020, during lockdown, winning the Manhattan Rep’s Stories Film Festival Best Actor (Female) Award, in February, for her first film, 'Vanity', written by California-based writer, Barbara Anderson, which she also Co-Produced and Directed with her ex-partner/housemate, Michael Addlesee and was shot at home in their bathroom, in Cambridge UK, along with the voice of Robert Jezek.