Jane Meikle is an award-winning screenwriter developing narrative feature and television projects in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Her thriller ‘Deadline Belgrade,’ co-written with Victoria Aitken, is in pre-production with Grant Hill’s Elizabeth Bay Productions, to be produced by Dennis Davidson in late 2024. The comedy, ‘Year of the Woman’ will shoot with Toronto-based Six Island Productions in 2025. Her scripts have won fellowships in the Praxis and eQuinoxe Screenwriters’ Labs in Vancouver, Canada and Mannheim, Germany.

Based in the United Arab Emirates since 2006, Jane has worked locally with Comedy Central Studios Arabia, Filmworks Dubai and Imagenation Abu Dhabi. She also worked in communications for several years, most notably with the Dubai International Film Festival, which exposed her to a wide range of talents and influences from the Arab World and beyond.

Jane began her career as the face of Canada-wide horror channel Scream TV, writing and performing popular character segments. She trained as a director at Norman Jewison’s Canadian Film Centre.

A mother of two, Jane splits her time between Abu Dhabi and Paris.