Joe Sellman-Leava has written seven episodes of the first series for CBeebies. Twelve more episodes TX from Saturday 18th January with Joe’s episode ‘Nikhil & Jay and the Best Wedding’ going out at 10.15am.
Nikhil & Jay follows the adventures of two young brothers whose Mum is Indian by heritage and Dad is English. With both Indian and English grandparents, their life is a rich blend of customs, traditions, festivals, food and music.
Joe is a writer of Anglo-Indian heritage, who grew up in Gloucestershire and Devon. He has written extensively for animation, working on episode scripts for series including Pip and Posy, Pip and Posy: Let’s Learn (Magic Light Productions), The Adventures of Paddington (Heyday Films), Lu and The Bally Bunch (Lubird Productions) and The Very Small Creatures S3 (Aardman/Sky Kids).
Joe also writes theatre and continues to tour, and perform, in his show IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID!
