Indy Selvarajah

Who is Indy Selvarajah?

Indy Selvarajah is a Writer & Advertising Creative. Educated at Simon Langton Boys Grammar School in Canterbury, he went on to study degrees at the universities of Oxford and UCL.

Selvarajah created the website 'It aint funny being coloured' in 2008 which led him to write and direct his first show aint it funny being coloured? for Channel 4 which aired in November 2009. The show was chosen as a Guardian Must See Show, Independent Pick of the Day and Time Out's Pick of the Week. It was produced by Zeppotron.

He has gone on to write a pilot for TalkBack Thames and written for the Guardian, Observer and Independent newspapers and publications including broadcast Dazed and Confused, The Face and Sabotage Times.

Indy has created a pilot for the BBC called 'MilTV', a comedy character show with Pett Productions. He is currently writing a new comedy / drama show with his writing partner Sean Cook being produced by Cowboy Films and developing a new satire show 'Mirror Mirror' with Jamie Oliver's Fresh One Productions.

Indy was selected as a Broadcast Hot Shot for comedy writing 2010 and selected on the Courvoisier Future100 in 2011. He is represented by the agent Vivienne Clore.