JACQUELINE PEPALL

Jacqueline Pepall is an award-winning writer/ director for film and television. She recently directed episodes 3, 4, and 7 of the Netflix figure skating drama, FINDING HER EDGE (2026). She also wrote episodes 4 and 7 of FINDING HER EDGE.

Additional directing credits include HORRIBLE HISTORIES for the BBC (2023), the teen comedy GOLDIE’S OLDIES for Nickelodeon (2021) and 2nd unit on the BBC/ Netflix teen drama GET EVEN (2020).

As a writer, Jacqueline’s work has been shortlisted for the BBC Drama Room, the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, and the Sundance Episodic Television Lab. She has developed projects with Netflix, Corus Entertainment, the BFI, and Film London.

Her short film credits (as writer/ director) include WHITE IS FOR VIRGINS (HBO Max), WISHIN’ & HOPIN’ (BFI Flare 2018, BAFTA long list), THE HOTEL AFFAIR (London Short Film Festival 2018), and OPHELIA’S END (Austin Film Festival 2017). She created and directed the contemporary dance series THEN DANCE (Sky Arts 2016) and the comedy pilot UPSTAGED (CBC Canada, winner: Best Pilot, LA Comedy Festival).

The UK Trade and Investment Commission recently selected Jacqueline for their “UK Tal- ent Goes to Hollywood” initiative, which pairs promising British directors with Hollywood studios. Jacqueline was the 2017 Hospital Club Foundation’s “Emerging Creative” for Film and Television. In 2018, she was listed as “One to Watch” by the Edinburgh TV Festival. She was part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s 2019 Talent Lab. She is the re- cipient of a John Brabourne Award.

Her work celebrates new, underrepresented heroes.

She is represented by Rob Kraitt and Ellen Gallagher at Casarotto.