^ 'The Sweet Science of Bruising to transfer to Wilton's Music Hall | WhatsOnStage'.'And my very first play and Guardian review!! 'Fried Eggs & Fag Ends', noted for its 'sense of an inevitable slide i…' (Tweet) – via Twitter. In 2023, Wilkinson began production on her feature film debut, the low-budget thriller 7 Keys. Wilkinson wrote and directed a follow-up short film, The Everlasting Club in 2021. It won at the Emerging Talent Awards at the New Renaissance Film Festival. In 2020, her directorial debut, the period short film Ma'am, was released. Sears’ Stalag-X, to be directed by Francis Lawrence. On March 17, 2022, it was announced that Wilkinson would be writing a feature adaptation of Kevin J. She co-wrote the fourth episode of The Watch, which is inspired by the Ankh-Morpork City Watch from the Discworld series of fantasy novels by Terry Pratchett. She wrote the comic strip Black Powder for Doctor Who Magazine in 2021. Wilkinson would novelise her episode as part of the Target Collection, and later wrote the short story The Simple Things.

In 2018, she contributed the eighth episode of the eleventh series of Doctor Who, The Witchfinders. In 2012, Wilkinson adapted The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby as a five-part miniseries for BBC One. On television, Wilkinson wrote for Doctors, Holby City, Casualty, and Land Girls. In 2021, she wrote an adaptation of Hope Mirrlees' Lud-in-the-Mist for BBC Radio 4. Among them were Ordeal by Innocence, Sparkling Cyanide and The Pale Horse.

She adapted Qiu Xiaolong's Inspector Chen Cao for BBC Radio 4, as well as several Agatha Christie adaptations.

In 2015, she was announced as a Screen Daily Star of Tomorrow for her thriller screenplay, Killer Résumé, which landed her on the 2014 Brit List. Wilkinson has written several plays, such as Britain’s Best Recruiting Sergeant, Fair and The Sweet Science of Bruising, which opened at Southwark Playhouse in 2018.

She worked as a journalist before winning the Verity Bargate Award. At age 14, she co-wrote Fried Eggs & Fag Ends, a play at the Lancashire Young Writers Festival that got reviewed in The Guardian by David Ward. Wilkinson was born in Burnley, Lancashire. Joy Wilkinson is a British screenwriter, playwright, author, and director. The Sweet Science of Bruising, Doctor Who Screenwriter, playwright, author, director

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