Sara-Ella Ozbek is a screenwriter and novelist. Her debut novel The High Moments was published by Simon & Schuster. It is being produced for TV by Working Title and Anthony Likely Story and is setup at the BBC; Sara-Ella is the Creator and Writer. Also with Working Title in co-production with Parodos Production she is developing a Principal, a feature biopic about Margot Fonteyn, starring Lily James. She afapted Northern European Christmas hit Accidental Santa into a UK feature for Sony Pictures International. For Charles Finch’s Rabbit’s Foot Films, she has adapted Polly Stenham’s Julie as a feature film, which Josie Rourke will direct, and has written two further features for the company: a comedy-drama inspired by Chekhov’s Three Sisters and original thriller Buried on the Beach. Sara-Ella’s second novel, Nothing I Wouldn’t Do was published by Simon & Schuster.  With Dianna Agron, Sara-Ella has co-written romantic comedy Love Conquers Most.

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Sara-Ella is active in the theatre space, as the book writer for a comedy musical about Grayson Perry, set for a run at The Soho Theatre Walthamstow in July 2026, directed by Sean Foley with music by Richard Thomas and lyrics by Grayson Perry.

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Sara-Ella has written non-fiction for Harper's Bazaar, The Independant, A Rabbit's Foot, Suitcase Magazine, Upstate Diary and Vogue. 

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