Sophie Petzal
Sophie Petzal is a British screenwriter, best known for creating the Irish crime drama, Blood.Career
While studying screenwriting at Bournemouth University, Petzal secured a place as a BBC Production Trainee. Her script Sanctioned won the Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award at the International Emmys. Following a trainee placement at CBBC in script editing, she started writing for several CBBC shows, including Wolfblood, Hetty Feather, The Dumping Ground and Danger Mouse. She subsequently moved into hour-long drama, writing episodes of Jekyll and Hyde, Medici, The Last Kingdom and Riviera.
In 2018, Petzal's first original TV drama series Blood, starring Adrian Dunbar and Carolina Main, aired on TV3 and Channel 5. Her script for Blood won Best Long-Form Drama at the Writers' Guild Of Great Britain Awards. It was renewed for a second series, which began broadcasting in April 2020. It was announced in February 2020 that Petzal was writing a new four-part thriller for ITV, Hollington Drive.
