Brisk Productions

Our Team

Alex Ravenhall

Co-Founder

Alex is a former bird seed factory worker, under 16s National Orienteer, and Mathlete. 

A current Pokémon and Middlesbrough Football Club Enthusiast, and, if his LinkedIn and mother’s Church WhatsApp group is to be believed, a writer from North Yorkshire.

He has been writing for 8 years, and during that time he have written, starred, produced, directed and edited every short film you’ve never seen. 

He has also had some successes on the small screen and stage…

BIGGEST NIGHT OF MUSICALS BY THE NATIONAL LOTTERY – TV WRITER/ACTOR 
Wrote and acted in the opening sketch for the show with Jason Manford which went out on BBC One on 27th December 2025 with an audience of 2.6 million.

43 YEARS – PROFESSIONAL THEATRE CREDIT WITH THE BLOWIN’ A HOOLEY THEATRE COMPANY – WRITER

His short play ‘43 Years’ was selected for the ‘Hadaway and Write’ writer’s initiative, receiving a professional production and run across January and February 2024.


Shortlisted for the Prototype event at the Uproar Theatre in early 2022. 

Selected for the Loco Comedy Film Festival 2023 and screened at the Picturehouse Hackney.

TWISTORY – EDINBROUGH FRINGE – WRITER/PERFORMER

Wrote and performed in the Birmingham Footnotes comedy sketch show ‘Twistory,’ at the Edinburgh fringe in 2019.

His project Fishing was listed in the top 26% of submissions for the BBC Writers’ Academy 2022/23 and ranked in the top 30% of submissions for the ALL3Media New Wrtiers Collective 2025.


Lily McDermott

Co-Founder

Lily grew up on a small holding in Yorkshire. A childhood surrounded by nature ignited a lifelong affinity with the environment. When she should have been focusing on her finals, she founded a student political party for Change UK to challenge the Brexit referendum; this experience only emboldened her belief that northern women deserve a bigger platform in the UK.

During her degree at Oxford, she witnessed institutional injustices which inspired her female-led drama The Student Body. Her latest drama, Baby I Love You, explores how an AI sexbot would respond to the violence women face every day. Lily is compelled by a desire to write women who dare.

In 2020, she founded The Owl Nest, a tutoring company specialising in preparing students from diverse backgrounds for the UK’s leading independent and grammar school entry examinations.