Recent Work
2023
Badmind
New full-length play, unproduced.
2022
There’s a Fly on my Pie!
Children’s picture book, unpublished.
2021
Meanings of Martha
New full-length play, unproduced.
2020
Lockdown Monologues
A series of short monologues revisiting earlier stories, written during the lockdown period:
- ‘A Tear’
- ‘Prudence’
- ‘Kicking In Eddie’
2019
Work in Progress
New full-length play, early drafts.
Soft Play
Short two-hander set in an indoor play centre, unproduced.
2018
A Waste of Time (Arcola Theatre, London)
Short play selected for Utopia/Dystopia, produced by Brave New Word.
2017
Dead Yard
Full-length play longlisted (final 40) for the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2017.
Dead Yard (Arcola Theatre, London)
Selected for the Arcola PlayWROUGHT festival of new writing. Public rehearsed reading in July 2017, directed by Yasmeen Arden.
Dead Yard (Arcola Theatre, London)
R&D residency to develop a new full-length play, supported by the Arcola Lab and Arts Council England. This included a reading to an industry audience.
2016
A Certain Kind of Girl (Arcola Theatre, London)
Short play produced for The Miniaturists 57. Directed by Yasmeen Arden.
2015
Closed
Full-length play longlisted (final 40) for the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2015.
A Spoonful (Theatre503, London)
Short play written in response to Paul Murphy’s Valhalla. Produced as part of Theatre503’s Rapid Write Response. Directed by Jennifer Bakst.
2014
There was no stopping us until the rain came down (Theatre503, London)
Short play written in response to Billy Roche’s A Handful of Stars. Selected for Theatre503’s Rapid Write Response. Directed by Yasmeen Arden.
2013
Sixteen (Theatre503, London)
Produced as part of Rapid Write Response, a selection of short plays written in response to Hannah Patterson’s Playing With Grown Ups. Directed by Andrew Whyment.
Polythene (Theatre503, London)
Short play written in response to Simon Donald’s The Life of Stuff. Produced as part of Theatre503’s Rapid Write Response. Directed by Hannah Joss.
Inside My Head (Bread & Roses Theatre Company, London)
Produced as part of the Platform, a showcase for new writing.
2012
The Exchange
Short play given a rehearsed reading at Sussex Playwrights’ Club.
2011
Inside My Head
A new short play. Selected for the final nine of the Windsor Fringe Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing.
The Inside Man (Shoreham Centre, Shoreham-by-Sea)
A rehearsed reading as part of the inaugural Shoreham WordFest.
The Inside Man / The Interview (Upstairs at Three and Ten, Brighton)
Well-received double bill at the Brighton Festival Fringe, with one cast performing both plays back-to-back.
The Inside Man / The Interview (White Bear Theatre, London)
Previews for Brighton Festival Fringe show, above.
‘In The Tattoo Parlour’ (Ether Books)
Mosaic story re-published as an ebook.
2010
‘Why Rosie Left’ (Ether Books)
Short story published via the Ether iPhone app.
‘In The Tattoo Parlour’, in Mosaic (Bridge House Publishing)
Short story selected for publication in a new anthology.
The Interview (Arcola Theatre, London)
Play produced at the Arcola Theatre as part of their new writing festival. Directed by Simon Pittman.
The Inside Man (Old Queen’s Head, London)
Play selected for the Saturday Matinée at the Old Queen’s Head. Directed by Rebecca Adamson.
Exit Strategies
Novel available from this website. An obituary writer is desperate to escape his dead-end job, but what will he risk to boost his retirement fund?
