Trix Worrell

Worrell started as a theatre writer and director. He went on to create the Albany Basement Theatre Company and has written and directed plays in most of the leading London fringe theatres from Upstairs at the Royal Court to OvalHouse. A graduate of the National Film and Television School, and winner of Channel 4’s 'Debut' writers competition, Worrell went on to create, write and direct Desmond's and Porkpie for Channel 4 and What You Looking At for London Weekend Television.

Worrell is a BAFTA nominee, British Comedy and the Royal Television Society award winner. He is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Medal from the Royal Television Society. He is the first recipient of ‘Vantage’, a special award presented at BAFTA by Screen Nation. Worrell was made an honorary member of the British Comedy Academy in 2011.

He was also voted one of the ‘100 Great Black Britons Throughout History’ by the Daily Mail. An excerpt from Desmond's was used in the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

In 2016, he was an Artistic Associate Producer on The Works short film, written and directed by Elliot Barnes-Worrell starring Ralph Fiennes and Sharon D. Clarke and Produced by Lisa Osborne. He is currently working on his first novel. Brown Skins in the Rain, a coming of age comedy set in 1969; and a children's illustrated book set in Hastings called Sea Dogs.

Trix Worrell (born 1959) is a St Lucia-born writer, composer and director best known as the creator and writer of television sitcoms Desmond's and Porkpie for Channel 4.