Adna is a 24-year-old creator and aspiring screenwriter from Leicester. She’s passionate about telling underrepresented stories and working to make the creative industries more inclusive. 

Adna is one of our creators for IN THE MIX 2022, a programme developed by BBC Studios TalentWorks and Black Creators Matter, in partnership with the Barbican. 

In this episode, Shukri and Adna discuss - 

• Why Adna was driven to write her own TV scripts

• The successes Adna’s had with her scriptwriting development incubator, Babes in Development

• How Adna found producing her first documentary for IN THE MIX 2022

Adna’s clips -

• Early - A scene from Adna’s TV sitcom script ‘Pipe Dreams’ 

• Most significant - A voicenote from a Babes in Development group member

• Now - Adna’s documentary ‘Naag Nool’ created for IN THE MIX 2022.

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