Julia is an award-winning writer, working across sitcom, sketch and comedy drama. She is currently head writer on comedy-adventure series Girl Guides vs Aliens, which she developed with Madeleine Perham for Lime Productions/CBBC.
Recent projects include episodes of: So Awkward Academy (her episode recently won the RTS NW Award for Best Children’s Programme); CBBC football drama Jamie Johnson FC; Warner Bros’ Waterloo Road; CBBC space comedy Nova Jones and CBBC’s flagship series The Dumping Ground.
Previously she has worked on YA comedy Flatmates for BBC iPlayer, Nickelodeon’s adventure comedy Hunter Street, the BBC adaptation of Malory Towers (for which she also did the series dialogue polish). She’s also written episodes of The Furchester Hotel, Horrible Science, Hounded (starring Rufus Hound), The Revolting World of Stanley Brown and Hotel Trubble.
Julia helped to develop, and script-edited, three series of the RTS-nominated and BAFTA-winning Class Dismissed sketch show, as well as script-editing Sky’s BAFTA nominated Stella starring Ruth Jones. Julia was twice nominated for a kids BAFTA for long-running hip hop sitcom Four O’Clock Club.
She was once employed by the EU to try and make Alzheimers funny and spent a year as a speechwriter for the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (for which she won a Sunday Times gong for political gag of the year).
Julia has projects in development with Lime, Channel X and CBBC.
Julia Kent is represented by Frances Arnold