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name: "Colin Teevan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/colin-teevan"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T15:23:11.081628+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Colin Teevan

Writer. Born 1 January 1968 in Dublin, Ireland.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1968, Dublin, Ireland
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Teevan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5145614, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4199667/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1570935

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Vera*](https://film.one/tv/vera.md) (72)

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## Biography

Colin Teevan (born 1968) is an Irish playwright, translator and writer for screen. He has written episodes of the ITV crime series *Vera* (2012), the BBC legal drama *Silk* (2014) and the ITV series *Single Handed* (2011).

Teevan created, wrote and served as co-executive producer on the historical series *Rebellion* (2016, with a second series in 2019) for Netflix and RTÉ, and the RTÉ miniseries *Charlie* (2015). Both won multiple Irish Film & Television Awards. He has also written for Sky's *Das Boot* (2020–2023) and created *Resistance* (2019).

His theatre work has been staged at venues including the National Theatre, the Young Vic and the Abbey Theatre. He is Emeritus Professor of Screenwriting and Playwriting at Birkbeck, University of London.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Vera* (2011), Fi1m 72, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/vera.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Tank* (2025), Writer
- *Resistance* (2019), series, Writer, Creator, Executive Producer
- *Das Boot* (2018), series, Author
- *Rebellion* (2016), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
- *Charlie* (2015), series, Writer
- *Vera* (2011), series, Writer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/vera.md)
- *Silk* (2011), series, Writer

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Tinniswood Award 2014: Tinniswood Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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