Joseph Elliott

Joseph Elliott is the author of the award-winning Shadow Skye trilogy, composed of The Good Hawk, The Broken Raven and The Burning Swift. For the last fourteen years, he has worked as an actor, predominantly in comedy and children's television. He is best known for playing pirate 'Cook' in the BAFTA-winning CBeebies series, Swashbuckle, for which he also writes many of the scripts. In 2020, he co-created, wrote and starred in Big Fat Like, a comedy sketch show commissioned by the BBC. He is also part of the script writing team for The Amelia Gething Complex, Class Dismissed, and Horrible Histories. When not writing or acting, Joseph loves pottery, snorkelling and playing board games