24 Hour Plays
17 June 2024
It was an absolute delight to take part in the inaugural 24 Hour Plays at the Theatre Royal Plymouth this month. I was asked to take part as one of four writers who were paired up with a director, three actors and a title (all drawn at random from actual hats), to produce four 15-minute plays in 24 hours.
As a writer, my job was to take the title on Thursday evening, have a quick chat with the rest of my company and then write a play overnight for submission first thing in the morning.
INK Festival
6 March 2024
My short play, ‘Henry VIII and Jane II’ is going to be performed at INK Festival in Suffolk next month. I’m excited! INK is the UK’s largest producing theatre of short plays and their festivals are legendary. They put on about 70 short plays during their four-day festival - chosen out of over 900 submissions. So it’s a great honour to be selected. If you are at all able to get to Halesworth between 11th-14th April please do go along (I believe my play will be on every day at some point).
2023 in Books
31 December 2023
In 2023 I have read 34 books and listened to 30 audiobooks - as well as reading many play scripts and listening to countless podcast episodes!
I give all books a mark out of ten. This is purely an enjoyment mark! Although the quality of the writing does have a big effect on how much I enjoy it, I never try to mark a book on how “good” it is. Who am I to say?
37 Plays - Human Resources
16 October 2023
It’s a wrap! My dystopian play, Human Resources, has just finished a short run of rehearsed readings with Hall for Cornwall, as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 37 Plays Project.
It was such a pleasure and a privilege to spend two days working with director Aga Blonska and a group of talented professional actors to create this reading. It was performed as part of an evening of readings (alongside fellow-37 Plays winner, Effort/Less by Hayley Rose, and three extracts from local playwrights) at Hall for Cornwall in Truro, The Ladder in Redruth and The Liskerritt Centre in Liskeard.
Exchange Rate - Film Shoot
26 July 2023
Last weekend, I joined with a team of incredibly creative and talented people to shoot the short film version of my story, Exchange Rate. It was a mad weekend – I was on set for 25 hours over two days – but a wonderful experience. I’m in awe of all the crew who appear to work magic as if it’s no big deal! The whole cast and crew were generous, kind people which really helped.
