David Varela
Obsidian Entertainment
Writer
David specialises in writing and sometimes producing interactive projects, bringing together games, theatre and video. David’s recent work includes writing the iOS game Sherlock: The Network, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman; a series of site-specific plays called The Seed for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad; script consultancy on chart-topping mobile game Zombies, Run! (nominated for a Writers’ Guild Award); and the Live Writing Series, which saw him writing live in front of an audience of 4,000 people at the National Portrait Gallery. David teaches residential courses for Arvon and speaks at film schools, universities, festivals and conferences around the world.