Salim Allybokus

After leaving a career in Criminal Law, Salim graduated from the BBC’s ‘Comedy Room’ development scheme, BBC’s ‘New Talent Hot List’ and 2022 saw him shortlisted for the Studio21 International Screenwriting prize. His dark TV comedy DEATH OF A LADIES' MAN won ‘Best Scene’ at the Wildsound Writing and Film Festival Review while new sit com ROTTING FISH is in development with Capture. Salim was one of 6 chosen to write a monologue on ‘The Transformative Power of Music’ for Radio 3 – THE BOXER’S EPIPHANY starring Kayvan Novak. He also collaborated with Beano Toons and The Connected Set to write the animated children’s show EVIL DEPUTY HEADMASTER and was selected by Racine Media to write for the web-series RON OF THE ROVERS. He recently wrote and produced seven sketches for BBC Bitesize’s ADULTING series. Salim is currently developing horror feature COMFORT BOX and other offbeat TV comedies.