Ollie is an award-winning writer for stage, screen and radio. He is the winner of the British Comedy Guide Sitcom Competition and Soho House Hot Seat. While he has previously been nominated for the David Nobbs Memorial Comedy award, the BAFTA Rocliffe TV Comedy prize and the Liverpool Hope Playwriting prize.
Ollie's first novel, Youngest Faircrest and The Search for a Sorcerer was released in June 2026 globally by DK.
This marks the first of a new middle grade trilogy which will be releasing annually until 2028, with DK having won the rights in a four-way auction in 2024.
In TV, he is currently under commission for three new television comedy/ dramas with Riot Time Pictures, The Story Collective and Brock Media. While having worked previously with TOD productions and Esmerelda productions on original projects.
So far in 2026, Ollie has been part of the writers room for new comedy/ drama Heat with Fingerprint Content, while previously having shadowed in the Industry (BBC & HBO) series three writers’ room.
He is hosting a new ConnectED Roundtable: Writers Block(ed?) - Where are the entry points into TV writing in 2026 and beyond? for the Edinburgh International TV Festival.
His original play Nightmare(ish) was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. The play was critics’ choice in The Times, The Sunday Times and The Radio Times. The play can be heard here.
He has written, directed and edited a host of award-winning comedy sketches. These sketches have appeared across BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio London and BBC Radio Essex. The sketches have recently been added to the British Comedy Guide.
His theatre credits include Troy Story (Edinburgh Fringe, Underbelly), Those We Exile (Almedia Theatre), Coconuts (Lyric Hammersmith), The Strictly Curse (Southwark playhouse) and Warm and Chewy (Old Red Lion Theatre).
Youngest Faircrest and the Search for a Sorcerer was released on the 4th June in the UK and the 9th June in the US and Canada, with the audiobook (narrated by Gemma Whelan) released on the 27th August.
Subsequently, Youngest Faircrest and the Search for a Sorcerer was released in Australia and New Zealand on the 1st September, with news on further territories to follow soon...
The novel was listed as one of the 'New Books We Love' by BookTrust, chosen as one of the 10 must read children's books of the summer by Bookmark, was selected to be part of the Torchlit Tales Society organised by Mr B's Emporium and was Coram Beanstalk's Book of the Month in August 2026.
In Summer 2026, a school in the UK contacted DK to ask if they could name their class after Ollie, following a teacher at the school being so captivated by the potential for Youngest Faircrest and the Search for a Sorcerer to inspire young readers. Ollie also spoke at the Southgate Literary Children's Festival and hosted an event at the Edinburgh International TV Festival.
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An unapologetically unremarkable hero, a surprisingly brave piglet, and an epic fantasy adventure perfect for fans of How to Train Your Dragon.
It's the day of the Deciding in the swampy town of Bogsmarsh, the day every twelve-year-old learns who they are going to be forever. Sitting in the Decider's study, Youngest Faircrest is declared remarkable at only one thing: just how unremarkable he is.
Determined to prove he is so much more than what has been Decided, Youngest does the only sensible thing: he heads to where no one else dares, to reclaim Bogsmarsh's stolen magic (if it even exists) - from a flying, stinging, yellow-eyed ancient sorcerer. Knowing Youngest's luck, she probably does exist!
Together with his best friend Agnes and piglet sidekick Satchel, Youngest is about to face monsters, mysteries, and mayhem' Could it be that Youngest is more remarkable than he's been made to feel, and capable of more than he ever dreamed?
