Steven Stubbs — Writer / Director

Vertical Micro-Series

Finished episodes, native 9:16.

Complete demo episodes built for streaming micro-drama platforms — shot composition, episode architecture, paywall structure and binge mechanics designed for vertical from the first frame, never cropped down from widescreen. Three genres, one pipeline.

**Period drama**Historical epic — crowd scenes, practical costume, dusk exteriors.

**Contemporary drama**Domestic realism with burned-in subtitles for sound-off viewing.

**Supernatural high school drama**Teen conflict with something else underneath — tight coverage, physical action beats.

Original Series

Developed and produced in-house.

Original IP written, directed and produced end to end — from series architecture and beat sheets through to finished, platform-ready episodes.

**Helen Of TroyOS**Trailer. Sci-fi tech thriller — an engineer builds the chip that could run every AI on Earth.

**Helen Of TroyOS**Episode one, from the produced pilot block.

**My Portuguese Werewolf Lover**Sizzle reel. Supernatural romance — pilot complete, 30 episodes architected.

**Marina Del Crime**Preview. Animated sitcom — aquatic detectives, high crimes and fish demeanours.

Visual Range

One pipeline, any aesthetic.

Every commissioned series gets its own visual identity. The same production architecture delivers photoreal live-action-grade footage, painterly illustration, or anime — the look is a decision, not a limitation.

**Hyper-real**Photoreal drama with live-action-grade performance.

**Painted**Painterly mid-century illustration, moving.

**Anime**Stylised character animation with genre-native staging.

The Pipeline

Script in, episode out.

A programmatic script-to-screen workflow with broadcast-trained creative direction at the helm — screenplay, frame generation, motion, voice and audio, editorial assembly, platform delivery. Built to run at slate scale rather than one-off, and produced both in-house and remotely.

**Programmatic Script-to-Screen Workflow**The pipeline running end to end.

One Minute Movies

One-minute films, ongoing.

I’ve set myself the challenge of making a 1 minute short each week — to keep on top of fast evolving generative tools and experiment with prompt optimisation — and because it’s fun! A different story, period and treatment each time. Watch the series on YouTube.

**Temporary People — #1**Rom-com conversations set in 1977 Manhattan. Photoreal proof of concept.

**One Minute Movies**Seaside kiosk, cash only. Contemporary Ireland.

**One Minute Movies**Nouvelle Vague pastiche — 1960s Paris, black and white.

**One Minute Movies**Two-hander to camera. Domestic, naturalistic.

**One Minute Movies**Close, warm and wordless — hands, a model aeroplane, a kitchen table.

Comedy & Satire

Spoof shows.

Comedy runs through the whole career — sitcom, stand-up and web series. Spoof formats only land when they are played entirely straight, which is how these are made. Presenters, studios, graphics and locations all generated.

**Hardcore World Cup Analysis**England v Argentina — match preview.

**Hardcore World Cup Analysis**Spike Manfap, mid-rant.

**Hardcore World Cup Analysis**USA v Belgium — the result comes in.

**Cumming On Ireland**Spoof documentary trailer.

Broadcast & Production Credits

Selected credits.

Lust Of The Irish: Writer / Director — live-action vertical series, pilot commission. Shooting Autumn 2026
Hearts of Hibernia: Writer / Director / Animator — AI-animated series in development, grant-funded by Waterford City Council Arts Office, 2025–present
This Is Not A Murder Mystery: Assistant Director — 6-part series for Panenka / Deadpan / StudioCanal, 2024
HANDS: Director / Editor — documentary commissioned by Mooncoin Residential Care Home, 2024
The New Normal: Writer / Director / Editor — 5-part mockumentary series, screened at Garter Lane Arts Centre, 2023
The Quizcast: Writer / Host — 40+ episode comedy livestream, 2020–2022
Steve Brokeman / David Clementine: Writer / Director / Performer — original comedy songs, music videos and live performance, 2018–present
Fair City (RTÉ): Storyline Writer — Ireland’s flagship continuing drama serial, 2010
Mariana (RTÉ): Writer / Co-Director — commissioned web series, sci-fi horror comedy, 2010
Pubworld (RTÉ): Writer / Co-Director / Producer — commissioned web series, sci-fi horror comedy, 2009
The Roaring Twenties (RTÉ 2): Writer / Co-Director — two-part sitcom pilot, broadcast nationally, 2008
It Happened One Night (RTÉ 2): Writer — short film, broadcast nationally, 2006
Nemeton, Ireland: Screenwriting Tutor
YouTube Partner: 14,500+ subscribers · 7.5 million channel views

Awards

Recognition.

Winner — PPI Radio Documentary Gold Medal
Winner — Vodafone Touch Film Festival
Winner — Seán Dunne Writers Festival
Winner — SMEDIA Script of the Year
Finalist — BBC New Writers
Official Selection — London Renderyard Festival

About

Steven Stubbs is a writer-director with over twenty years in broadcast television and online series production — from a sitcom pilot broadcast on RTÉ 2 to storylining Fair City and assistant-directing for StudioCanal, alongside comedy writing for sitcom, stand-up and web series.

He now runs Stubvid Media, producing AI-native vertical micro-series for streaming platforms and commissioners. Recent work includes the produced pilot block for Helen Of TroyOS and a commissioned ten-episode block of Lust Of The Irish, supported by the Ted & Mary O’Regan Bursary and Waterford City Arts Council.

Based in the Republic of Ireland. Remote-first, available globally.