Shaun Duggan is a BAFTA nominated writer based in the UK. He created the role Tracie Tremarco for Jimmy McGovern`s Accused which won Sean Bean an International Emmy Award for best actor in 2013. Shaun has written extensively for television including Brookside and EastEnders Shaun spent eight years writing for the soap opera, Brookside, he wrote the episode that featured the first pre-watershed lesbian kiss on British television when Beth Jordache began a relationship with the Farnhams' nanny Margaret Clemence in January 1994. The kiss was seen by an estimated global audience of one billion when Danny Boyle included it in the opening ceremony of London 2012. As a result the kiss was shown in countries such as Saudi Arabia, where it is illegal to be gay. No other gay kiss has ever been shown on television in the Middle Eastern country. Shaun received a BAFTA nomination in 2013 for the opening episode of the second series of Jimmy McGovern's Accused. Caitlin Moran said in The Times ?It was physically affecting ? that brilliant, drug-like transcendence where you?re floating inside a story? I can?t remember the last time I was so on the side of someone in a script.?