Gaby Chiappe (born c. 1964)[1] is a British screenwriter, known for her original works: television show The Level, and the films Their Finest and Misbehaviour.
Chiappe attended the Cardinal Newman Catholic School, where Mary was an English teacher and taught her daughter in the sixth form.
To make a living, she took up various jobs during that time, including what Gibraltar Magazine summarises as "teaching English as a foreign language, selling vintage clothes in Kensington market, reviewing plays, reading scripts and doing bits of journalism".
In television, you're often writing to production deadlines that are tight from the start [...] but it was the one-offs that were really hard to handle as these would involve going down to London [...] especially when the children were young.
[1] From 2000 to 2015, Chiappe worked on various other soaps and television shows as a commissioned writer, and began developing her own series: The Level, which she co-created with Alex Perrin and which aired in 2016.
[1] In her last commissioned television role, writing for the Scottish drama Shetland, Chiappe and script executive Clare Batty wrote a difficult storyline about rape, which was received positively, and described as important and powerful, and not gratuitous.
[5] In this process, Chiappe is said in Gibraltar Magazine to have "found there wasn't too big a difference between writing scripts for television and film".