Adam Usden is an award-winning writer from Manchester, based in London and Los Angeles.
Adam is currently writing the third series of Almonds & Raisins, adapted from Maisie Mosco’s novel, for BBC Radio 4. He also wrote the previous two series, which TX’d in July 2024 and December 2025. In 2025, he worked on the thriller series The Revenge Club for Gaumont/Paramount+, writing episode four.
Adam was Lead Writer on teen drama series Zero Chill for Lime/Netflix and wrote two episodes of Lupin III for Gaumont/Netflix which TX’d in October 2023. Adam’s credits also include an episode of Ackley Bridge III for The Forge/C4. His pilot scripts And How Does It Make You Feel?, inspired by Joshua Fletcher’s book of the same name, and Milk & Meat, an adaptation of James Lubbock’s memoir Breaking Dad, have been commissioned by West Road Pictures. His original drama Sheva has also been commissioned to script by ITV Studios/Patrick Spence.
For radio, Adam’s debut play, The Book of Yehudit, received the Imison Award for ‘Best Script by a Writer New to Radio’, and his second, Sophie’s Lights, was shortlisted for ‘Best Drama’ at the BBC Radio News and Drama Awards. Adam also wrote an original finale for the radio adaptation of Our Friends in the North for BBC/Sparklab Productions, which TX’d in May 2023.
Adam is a graduate of 4Screenwriting, the BBC Drama Writer’s Programme, the Royal Court Studio Group and Traverse 50, and his theatre work has previously been shortlisted for the Papatango Prize, the Theatre 503 Playwriting Award, the Yale Drama Prize and the Channel 4/Òran Mór Comedy Drama Award.
Adam graduated from Durham University with a 1st in English Literature, where he also wrote and performed (badly) with the Durham Revue, and was part of the troupe that won the National Student Best University Sketch Group and Underbelly Sketch-Off.
Adam Usden is represented by Frances Arnold