Indy Selvarajah

Indy Selvarajah (born March 1, 1981, Gibraltar) 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 (University College London).

Selvarajah created the website 'It aint funny being coloured' in 2008 which led him to write and direct his first pilot show for Comedy Labaint it funny being coloured? for Channel 4 which aired in November 2009. Comedy Lab was chosen as a Guardian Must See Show, Independent Pick of the Day and Time Out's Pick of the Week. Despite this, Aint it funny being coloured never progressed beyond one pilot episode for Comedy lab. It was produced by Zeppotron (Nathan Barley, Black Mirror).

He has gone on to write another 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 (Spooks) being produced by Cowboy Films (The Last King of Scotland, Top Boy) 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.

Indy has created award winning advertising campaigns for British Airways, Cancer UK, Make Mine Milk and Turner Prize 2013.