I am an Andalusian-born British writer/director who learned all about teamwork while living with Meerkats in the Kalahari Desert.  
 
My credits include projects for the BBC, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, Channel Four and Animal Planet. Work on these projects took me to Egypt, Gaza, Jordan, USA, Peru, Israel, Uganda, Syria, Spain, Mexico, and South Africa.

An established director, I turned to writing whilst working at the BBC. I was declared a “highly recommended shortlist writer” when my short “A Time To Say Goodbye” was shortlisted for a BBC writersroom competition: “A vividly filmic piece of writing, and certainly shows your aptitude towards storytelling for the big screen”. This encouraged me to continue writing.

I have been researching and writing a major series for television – “The Quest” – a historical drama about the collapse of the ‘Mexica’ Empire. This project is in late-stage development.

I have also recently finished writing “The Four Seasons” (stage and screen versions) a coming-of-age war drama about four women set in the 1930’s.

My new English translation of Federico García Lorca’s “The Shoemaker’s Wonderful Wife” premiered at the V&A Museum as part of Peter Brook’s Theatre Festival. This world premiere was directed by Valerie Doulton, and the formidable Rosie Sheehy gave a tour de force performance in the title role. This will be my first book, due for publication by Liverpool University Press in the near future. My editor is Jonathan Thacker (King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies at Oxford University).

I have also written “The Shoemaker’s Wicked Wife,” a modern adaptation of the same play, setting the story in a small village in 1990s Uganda.

I’m also co-authoring a new book, “Making Waves (working title): Learning to Swim Again After Brain Injury,” with my swimming coach, Keeley Bullock (Swim For Tri). This upcoming project tells the story of a unique partnership between a swimmer rebuilding his life after a brain injury and the coach who guided him back into the water and taught him to swim — again. Supported by neurologists, specialists, and technology, their journey shows how recovery is not a solo act but a complex collaboration — and how swimming emerged as the essential medium for recovery, healing, and hope after brain injury.

Particular areas of interest: screenwriting, theatre, poetry, history, dance, lyric writing. I have experience as script consultant for British, Canadian and U.S. network T.V.

My networks:

@jesusmontero (TWITTER) @jmonterowrites (INSTAGRAM)