Kevin Cecil

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Kevin Cecil
Born1969 (age 54–55)
London, England
OccupationScreenwriter and television producer.
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Period1993–present
GenreComedy, adventure, science fiction

Kevin Robert Cecil (born 1969 in London) is a British screenwriter.

Writing alongside

Comic Relief one-off special Robbie the Reindeer in 2000, and the second for Black Books in 2005.[citation needed
]

He has also written for

Little Britain, Trigger Happy TV, So Graham Norton, Smack the Pony and Spitting Image and on radio he co-created The 99p Challenge.[citation needed
]

The second Robbie the Reindeer special, "Legend of the Lost Tribe", which Cecil and Riley co-wrote won an International Emmy for best children's programme in 2003.[citation needed]

Kevin also co-created and wrote a Sci-Fi comedy series for television entitled

Hyperdrive. The first series aired on BBC2 in 2006, and the second series aired on the same channel in 2007. The programme starred Nick Frost, Kevin Eldon and Miranda Hart
who was nominated for best newcomer in the British Comedy Awards in 2006 for her role in the programme.

An animated series

ABC Family Channel in 2007.[citation needed
]

He has worked on a number of feature films including

The Corpse Bride (uncredited).[citation needed
]

In 2013, he co-wrote Gangsta Granny.[1]

In 2016 he won a Writers Guild of America award for his work on Veep.[2]

He has also appeared in the episode of the IT crowd 'Something happened', where he starred as Norman the geeky keyboard player.

Awards and nominations

Year Award Work Category Result Reference
2012
Annie Award
 Gnomeo & Juliet (shared with Kelly Asbury, Mark Burton, Andy Riley, Emily Cook, Kathy Greenberg, Steve Hamilton Shaw, John R. Smith and Rob Sprackling)
Writing in a Feature Production
 Nominated
2014 Online Film & Television Association Award Veep Best Writing in a Comedy Series Won
2015
Primetime Emmy Award
 Outstanding Comedy Series Won
Writers Guild of America Award
 Comedy Series Nominated
2016 Writers Guild of America Award Comedy Series Won
Producers Guild of America Award
 Veep, Season Four Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy Nominated

References

  1. ^ Eames, Tom (24 October 2013). "Miranda Hart, Joanna Lumley join David Walliams's 'Gangsta Granny'". Digital Spy. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  2. ^ 2016 Writers Guild Awards Nominees

External links

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