Tierney Acott is a seasoned daydreamer and enthusiastic writer. She prefers comedies with drama bits or dramas with comedy bits.

Over time, she has collected some laurel wreaths (coronae laureae), which are listed below. She also has a large piece of paper that verifies (in Latin, no less) that she has an M.Phil in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin.

Other miscellaneous scribblings and musings can be found on her Substack.

  • DSCH:
    —Finalist in Feature category for UK Film Festival London 2020

    “God Only Knows”:
    —Finalist in 10 Minute Script category for UK Film Festival London 2020

    Coupla Kooks:
    —Semifinalist & Quarterfinalist for 2022 ScreenCraft Drama Competition
    —Finalist for Feature Screenplay for 2021 London Independent Story Prize
    —Shortlisted for Script Read at 2020 Richard Harris International Film Festival
    —Finalist in Feature Script category for 2019 UK Film Festival London
    —Official Selection in Feature Script category for 2019 Lonely Seal International Film Festival
    —Preliminary Finalist in the Drama / Family Screenplay category for 2019 Creative World Artists Award

    Tall Fences:
    —Finalist in LA Comedy Festival's 2015 Screenplay Competition
    —Finalist in 2015 Creative World Award: Comedy Screenplay.

    "The C Word":
    —Winner for LA Web Fest's 2015 Outstanding Comedy Premise for "The C Word"
    —Nominated for LA Web Fest's 2015 Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series Award for "The C Word"

  • “Grow”
    —Published in Volume II, Issue 3, September 2022 of Toasted Cheese
    —2nd place in 2022 A Midsummer Tale Narrative Writing Contest for Toasted Cheese

    “Luckenbach, Texas”
    —Longlisted for Letter Review Prize for Short Stories (Dec-Feb 2023)

    Nigel
    —Longlisted for 2020 Comedy Women in Print Prize

    I, Frances
    —Longlisted for 2016 Mslexia Children's Novel Competition

  • —Published “A Letter from the Semicolon to His Wife” in The Big Jewel

  • “Doom & Gloom” @ Second City (2016)
    writer, performer, music director

    “Scribble Bibble: Kaleidoscope” @ Stage 773 (2014)
    staff writer, assistant director

    ”In God We Thrust” @ Second City (2013)
    writer, producer

  • Top 0.05% of Wings listeners worldwide (Spotify)

    Top 1% of Harry Styles fans worldwide (Spotify)