Want to create great characters in your writing? Award winning screenwriter Suhayla El-Bushra gives you her best top five tips for creating a character. Suhayla has lots of experience of this, as UK based playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include a musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Enormous Crocodile (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), The Long Song (Chichester Festival Theatre), The NW Trilogy (The Kiln) and The Suicide (after Erdman, National Theatre. Her TV work includes Hollyoaks, Becoming Elizabeth and Ackley Bridge, and her feature film, Brides (Neon Films/BFI) is currently in cinemas.