Welcome to my website.
Here you will find news of current projects I am involved with, things I have done and things I am doing.
News
CURRENT PROJECTS:
The soap opera project 'Riverscross' is now into phase three and I am co-producing the trailer with Tony Coult. Bruce Webb will be directing and we are filming on the 1st and 2nd June. More details on www.spannerintheworks.org.uk
Currently I am working on a year 6 and 7 schools project with the London Bubble, at The Globe Academy in the New Kent Road.
After the success of last years TOSCA New Writing Project, I have just started running a second new writing project with The ROYAL ALBERT HALL. This year's will be based on CARMEN, http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/mar/02/traveller-women-carmen which is coming into the Royal Albert Hall in March (see 'general' CV and link below, for details of last year's project). I am working with a group of Irish Travellers this year and Ian McMillan is also coming in to run a poetry workshop. We are going to have newly created music from the Purcell School as well this time round. http://blogs.thestage.co.uk/education/2009/01/an-encouraging-new-take-on-carmen/index.html
The CBBC production LITTLE HOWARD'S BIG QUESTION started in January on BBC One, in which I play a scientist poking Big Howard, as he sits in a bath of custard! www.littlehoward.co.uk
Earlier this year I was working with the Half Moon Theatre on a schools project called CONVERSATIONS, a devised performance project between a primary and a secondary school in Whitechapel.
My community play 'BOOM!' is now available to buy online, it has a large cast(suitable for schools and colleges) and is set in the South East, during the housing boom of the 1930s. For more information visit www.lulu.com and search for 'boom'.
'THE BE ALL AND END ALL', feature film for Tubedale Pictures/Whatever Pictures, set in Liverpool is currently in post production. I am playing the role of Doctor Palmer. The film is directed by Bruce Webb and stars Liza Tarbuck.
The second draft of my screenplay HIGH SEAS AND LITTLE 'B'S for Nimble Pictures is now finished - see link below.
My latest episode of DOCTORS, 'TUNING OUT', was broadcast on the 31st March last year.
I am currently working on a new screenplay called THE ROAD TO WEOBLEY and a book version of HIGH SEAS.
Links
Four of my plays 'The Thieftaker', 'BOOM!', 'PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES' and 'THE LITTLE MERMAID' are now available at www.lulu.com
Our entry to the Sci-Fi London 48 hour film challenge is at http://www.scifi.co.uk
The Stage has a podcast of the TOSCA new writing project I ran for the Royal Albert Hall at http://www.thestage.co.uk/podcasts
RADS and info on SHADOWS, the screenplay I have in development with Whatever pictures are at www.whateverpictures.com
Nimble Pictures, who I have my script HIGH SEAS AND LITTLE ‘B’S in development, are at www.nimblepictures.co.uk
Articles I have written for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain can be found at www.writersguild.org.uk
Spanner in the Works, my workshop company, are at www.spannerintheworks.org.uk
Quotes on previous work:
"remarkable...Challenging and reassuring at the same time" - Times Educational Supplement (Spanner in the Works)
"A surprisingly sophisticated piece" - The Stage (Smoke)
"Ingenious, yet ironic and very entertaining" - Time Out (Smoke)
"Brilliant" - Morning Star (Smoke)
“Fascinating” - What’s On in London (Extensions of Love)
“Poetic writing” – Time Out (Worlds Apart)