BIOGRAPHY:
A theatrical actress for 12 years, as well as a stand-up comic on London's comedy circuit, Ali wrote and performed all her own material. She's also worked as a chicken keeper in Bethlehem, a dishwasher in Tel Aviv, a bricklayer in St. Tropez, a nightclub dancer in Milan, a barmaid and waitress all over the world and searched for crocodiles on the Amazon in Peru.
Then, due to her experiences of street homelessness in London, Florence and Rome, she helped to run an Eco-Village on derelict land in London with the direct-action group The Land Is Ours. This sun and wind-powered wonderland helped more than 200 homeless people build homes, grow vegetables and manifest an urban, eco-friendly Shangri-La. Until the police burnt down their houses in a dawn eviction and Utopia was done.
And she became a key worker in a 78-bed hostel for street-homeless men.
The ensuing years of arson and overdoses evolved into a film script that was miraculously optioned by September Films and BOOM, her new addiction was screenwriting. And she set up The Fabulous Creative Writing Group that she ran for ten years for folk with substance use and mental health issues.
She's taken courses with Raindance, at a Writers Lab in Greece and with Euroscript in Morocco and likes to tell tales about unhinged mavericks, impossible love affairs and dangerous obsessions. And big shoes. She really likes big shoes.
You can see loglines of her film and television scripts here: aliwilkie.com
