Cops and Monsters: Audio & Vertical Series

Aim

To raise funds to shoot a "Cops and Monsters" special minisode and a full cast audio drama series!

(Cops and Monsters Poster by Neil Fraser Graphics)

Welcome to the world of "Cops and Monsters" - a full cross media series based on our original award winning web-series of the same name.

FUNDING UPDATE

We have raised the funds needed to shoot our 6 part vertical mini-series "The Cult of Many Faces" (Details below!) on the 24th of January 2026 with our full cast. 

We’ve now also raised the funds needed to start producing our six part audio series “The Year of Peace”

If we can reach £10,030 we can produce a second vertical series set in the world of Cops and Monsters, paying our cast and crew!

In the year 2035 Glasgow finds itself facing a new path as the vampire community finds itself exposed to humanity, forcing the First Minister to offer asylum to vampires, werewolves and zombies who have been living in secret. 

With the asylum treaty comes the PARANORMAL INVESTIGATION TEAM SCOTLAND (or P.I.T.S!) the first ever police department charged with policing the supernatural community and keeping both creature and human safe.

WHAT ARE YOU RAISING MONEY FOR?

We are raising funds to produce both a special "Cops and Monsters" vertical mini series "The Cult of Many Faces" and a 6 part full cast audio drama, "The Year of Peace" which will introduce new audiences to the world and our rich characters - a world of vampires, werewolves, zombies and the team that police them.

The plan is to shoot the episode at the end of January 2026 and the audio series later in 2026.

THE YEAR OF PEACE - COPS AND MONSTERS AUDIO SERIES (£8000)

If we raise the full £8000 we will also be able to produce a 6 part full cast audio drama "The Year of Peace" which will see the Paranormal Investigation Team Scotland put to the test as a vampire is seemingly killed by a rogue werewolf in their protected zone and they have just 24 hours to solve the case or the vampire families will take over and the fragile treaty between species will be shattered! 

The audio series is co-created by original creator Fraser Coull and Emmy Winning Writer Roland Moore. 

Our writers for series 1 are: 

Amelia Nashe

Amelia is a screenwriter based near Glasgow, with a background in poetry and short stories. She is an alumni of BBC Writersroom Scottish Voices 2020-21 and Glasgow Caledonian University’s Creative Skillset-accredited MA TV Fiction Writing course. 

She’s written and produced two short films – one award-winning, one made in lockdown, both streamable on indie SVoD Indie-Clips – with a third currently in post-production with Screen Scotland and GMAC as part of Little Pictures. She has also written jokes for BBC Scotland’s Breaking the News and sketches for Glasgow-based all-female comedy collective Witsherface. 

She has worked in several industry roles, including Team Assistant on River City, Head of K Studios at sustainable development company and UN GC member K Enterprises and now Multiskilled Subtitler at Red Bee Media. 

Amelia writes across a broad range of genres, but gravitates towards themes around mental illness, nature vs technology and childhood vs adult imagination.

Lorna King

Lorna King is a neurospicy Ghanaian-Scottish screenwriter and a graduate of Screen Academy Scotland.

Her short script EXOTIC won the Glasgow Short Film Festival pitch competition in 2019 and she was selected for the prestigious Less is More Scottish residency 2020 run by Le Groupe Ouest. Her short script HER MIDAS TOUCH was developed as part of the BFI/Screen Scotland Sharp Shorts scheme. It earned several laurels at competition, including reaching the Top Five scripts in the Shore Scripts Short Film Fund 2020 and is due for release this soon.

She is one of ITV Studios' Disabled Writers in Development for 2023, developing an original pilot for the network.

In 2022 Lorna wrote an original pilot under commission for Sky as part of the Youngs Film Foundation and delivered her first episode of RIVER CITY.

Lorna is represented by Steven Russell.

Lindz McLeod

Lindz McLeod (she/they) is a queer Scottish writer whose short work has been published by Apex, Catapult, DIVA, Nightmare, and many more. Her longer work includes the award-winning short story collection TURDUCKEN, her books SUNBATHERS, QUEEN O'NINE TAILS, and THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET, as well as the forthcoming WE THE DROWNING and THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY. 

Her work has been taught in schools and universities, turned into avant-garde opera, and optioned for television. She is currently in her final year of a PhD in Creative Writing. You can find Lindz waxing lyrical about books, cats, and her film podcast, Cinema Worms, on Bluesky at @lindzmcleod, Instagram @lindz.mcleod, and examples of her work can be found on www.lindzmcleod.co.uk

Philip Lawrence

Philip began his career writing for the stage and then audio drama (Doctor Who/ Big Finish) before winning the C21 TV Drama Script Prize with his black comedy ‘Euthanasia In Suburbia’. 

He has since written numerous episodes for EastEnders, Holby City and Casualty. His first thriller TV movie ‘How To Frame A Family’ is streaming on Amazon Prime and his latest Doctor Who audio adventure ‘Hard Feelings’ was released in February. After numerous attempts he is thrilled to be finally joining the world of Cops and Monsters.

Roland Moore

As well as winning an International Emmy Award for FALLEN (2025), Roland Moore’s work as a series creator, head writer and scriptwriter has won a Royal Television Award and a Broadcast Award. He’s also won a London Writers’ Award.

He works in a wide range of genres for film and television in the UK, Europe, New Zealand, America, and China. He created the BBC1 returning period drama series, LAND GIRLS and was the Head Writer on HUMANS for Endemol Shine China and Croton Media – making him one of the few UK writers to create series for both the BBC and China.

Currently, two new TV crime series have been optioned by Screen Sirens (Canada) and DCD Rights (UK).

His feature film work includes 2:HRS and SUMMER CAN WAIT. He has written for Big Finish writing original audio dramas for their DOCTOR WHO, SPACE 1999, THE AVENGERS, STAR COPS and SURVIVORS ranges. As well as lecturing on creative writing, he was also a creative consultant for a vertical drama company, advising on adapting Chinese and Indian vertical dramas for the UK.

Roland has written extensively for children as well – with credits including PETER RABBIT (Nickelodeon), RASTAMOUSE (BBC), MEEOW (ITV) and WAYBULOO (BBC). He also wrote the family comedy film 2:HRS (2019).

Fraser Coull

Fraser has been writing since 2005, creating Scotland's first ever web series Night is Day, which ran for two series followed by a feature film version in 2012. Fraser also created and was showrunner on the original Cops and Monsters web series from 2014 to 2018 which is streaming on Amazon Prime and Google Play. His recent short, Faithful won BEST SCREENPLAY at the British Short Film Awards and is screening on STV Player after a US premiere at WonderCon in California and San Diego Comic Con. 

We have teamed up with Australian production company Dicentium Films who we will co-produce the audio series with and market the entire Cops and Monsters universe in Australia, Canada and Asia-Pacific Networks. 

This will allow us to further promote our Scottish storytelling and our amazing local cast and crew. 

We are also planning a full vertical drama series, live action feature film and comic book series over the next five years. 

Your support will allow us to achieve the following:

• Hiring a recording studio for our actors to record the scripts
• Hire the actors who we will cast in the main roles and guest starring roles throughout the series
• Bring in audio technicians to smoothly and professionally record our episodes
• Commission a sound designer to add foley and effects into the episodes
• Hire a composer to score the series
• Bring in a specialised audio drama director to oversee the recordings
• Hire a behind the scenes photographer and filmmaker to capture the behind the scenes of the recording sessions for PR and marketing purposes
• Host the episodes on an audio drama platform and out into the world.

WHAT WILL I GET FOR MY MONEY?

If you would like to back our audio series and support us, we're offering the following perks:

• Associate Producer, Producer and Executive Producer credits at the end of each episode
• A cameo appearance in one of the episodes
• A character named after you
• Access to the finished episodes before they go live to the public
• A private link to watch one of the episodes being recorded

VERTICAL MINI SERIES - THE CULT OF MANY FACES (£2300)

The episode, "The Cult of Many Faces" takes place on the eve of the asylum treaty being agreed on by the leader of the Vampire community - Finlay - and the Werewolf Alpha - Isla - struggling to find common ground, enlist the help of a mediator - The Cult of Many Faces. 

The Cult - a former Jacobite soldier who was "saved" whilst dying on the battlefield - finds himself as a fixed point in time and with the abilities to read people's intrusive thoughts. He wants and needs for nothing - and that makes him dangerous.

With the funds we are aiming to raise we will be able to achieve the following:

• Hire our 5 cast members
• Hire our professional crew and students to shadow and gain valuable onset experience
• Location Hire
• Costume Budget
• Special Effect Makeup Budget
• Props and Set Dressing
• Visual Effects
• Sound Design
• Music Composition

We will also be using the funds to create Behind the Scenes videos and photos, interviews with cast and crew to produce a range of marketing materials for the "Cops and Monsters" universe. 

WHO WILL BE STARRING IN THE SPECIAL MINISODE?

Award winning stand up comedian and actor Billy Kirkwood will be causing mischief again as The Cult of Many Faces. Billy is the host for Insane Championship Wrestling and appears regularly on BBC Scotland's Breaking the News. 

Upcoming Scottish actress Lily McGuire will be taking the role of Sorcha, the troubled teen werewolf, in our minisode. Lily's onscreen debut as Vaila in the award winning Scottish fairytale short film, "Faithful" which we also wrote and produced, is currently under consideration for Best Live Action Short Film at the Oscars in 2026.

Scottish actor Ryan Kane will play Finlay McRae - an ancient vampire and head of a prestigious family who are used to having things exactly the way they want. He's frustrated to discover that he now must negotiate with the wolves and even worse... The Cult of Many Faces, to preserve his family's lifestyle after one of his kind is exposed on TikTok. 

Shannon Davidson will be playing Mary, a woman in distress who finds herself seeking solace in the church where Finlay happens to be waiting for her...

Shannon Davidson is a Scottish creative with experience across stage and screen. Credits include, Groom (BAFTA Scotland-nominated), The Defender (STV player) Moonswing (Simply Surreal Theatre) and Ghost Light (OffComm Award).

Reanne Farley will be playing the role of Isla, the protective werewolf Alpha! 

Reanne has enjoyed a varied acting career in TV, film & stage. Her TV credits include Outlander (STARZ), The Sandman (Warner Bros/Netflix), Crime (ITVX/Amazon), Shetland (BBC), Coronation Street (ITV), Clink (Channel 5), Father Brown (BBC), Emmerdale (ITV), Eve (BBC), Holby City (BBC), River City (BBC Scotland), The Last Detective (ITV) and Snowdon & Margaret (Ch4). 

Reanne's film credits include the award-winning Schemers, Fourever, Skinjacker and Scottish BAFTA nominated short Take Your Partners.

WHAT DO I GET IN RETURN FOR MY SUPPORT?

We are offering a wide range of perks including:

• Early access to watch the special episode before public release
• Behind the scenes photos
• Behind the scenes making of videos
• A PDF copy of the script
• Personalised video messages from the cast 
• Associate Producer, Producer and Executive Producer credits on the episode and our IMDb page
• Shout outs on our social media platforms

As well as attending UK based comic cons such as MCM Comic Con London to screen and promote our series, we have a relationship with WonderCon in California where we also plan on hosting a panel and a meet and greet stall. 

"Cops and Monsters" is a fan favourite series and we plan on expanding that in 2026.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read all about our series and our plans! 

"COPS AND MONSTERS" LORE

If you've got this far and you'd like to know more about "Cops and Monsters" and the world we're building, then have a look! 

At present, order is maintained by dividing each city in Scotland into zones. 

Glasgow is split into 6 ‘zones’. Each zone is protected with an advanced force field that is triggered by movement on the perimeter. 

Access can only be cleared with approved ID cards.

0: Undomesticated zombies (category As and Bs) live free-range in this area. 

1: Human areas such as the West End, Kelvinside, Maryhill which are closed to all supernatural creatures.

2: In zone-2 areas, all types of creature are allowed to mix together -- as long as they have ID certifying them to be non-dangerous. These are the centre of town, the river etc.

3: Werewolf ghetto. Werewolves are free to fully transform during a full moon and have access to all areas in the zone. They must not transform in any other zone or will be sentenced to 90 days in the PITS holding area. 

4: Vampire Estate. Vampires are free to come and go as they please but they are strictly forbidden from feeding on human flesh. Instead they are offered manufactured blood for nutrients. 

5: The Restricted Zone. Nobody knows what’s in there.

All citizens have ID cards which give them permission to access the appropriate zones. Supernaturals are assigned code numbers that begin with ‘A’ for extremely dangerous creatures ‘B’ for mildly dangerous creatures, and ‘C’ for non-dangerous creatures. Humans take the prefix ‘H’.

All humans have access to zones 1-4 but at their own risk.

Werewolves are free to enter Zones 2 and 3 but they are only permitted in zone 4 with clearance from the vampire community leaders. 

Privileged or high ranking vampires are permitted to enter zones 1-4 but working class vampires and children are only permitted in zone 2. 

Zombies are not permitted to leave their designated zones and do not have ID cards.

The Deputy First Minister, Jonathan Clark is cracking down on ID cards and permissions for each supernatural community, encouraging humans to avoid zones 3 and 4.

Counterfeit/tampered with ID cards are rumoured to be rife in zone 2, allowing temporal access to zones 1-4.

This project successfully funded on 9th February 2026