Stewart Harcourt

Stewart Harcourt (born 1968) is an English screenwriter for film and television, whose work includes Jericho, Murder on the Orient Express (2010), Maigret (2016) and several Miss Marple teleplays.

Early life and education Harcourt is from Coventry. He attended the Coventry Blue Coat Church of England School. In 1988 he was awarded a prize as part of the National Student Drama Festival in Cambridge. In 1994 he was nominated as Best New Playwright at the London Fringe Awards.

Career His writing for film and television includes:

Also In the early 1990s, Harcourt was artistic director at the Man in the Moon Theatre, King's Road, London. In 1994 he became director of the Old Bull Arts Centre, Barnet. Somogyi's Monologue (1996)

In 2001 he published A practical guide for writers & companies Pub. Independent Theatre Council. In 2010, along with Jeff Dowson, Nic Jeune, Harcourt was part of a BAFTA-led mentoring project helping young people make film in Bristol. Harcourt has been a guest speaker at Liverpool John Moores University screenwriting MA course.