A BIT ABOUT ME

I write plays, short stories and the occasional article. I have started experimenting with longer prose fiction, resulting in my debut novel which was published 2024.  I live in Bath in south-west England.

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I love stories: writing them, reading them, listening to them, eavesdropping on them. I like stories as a form of performance. I’ve read my stories to anyone who will listen at events and festivals around the south of England, for years. I also write plays, a different version of story-telling. I love the way my words and stories sound when taken and transformed by actors and directors.

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I believe that stories are the bedrock of being human and I find creating, tangling and untangling them a source of constant fascination.

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Most of my activities reflect this story-love. I have produced many live short fiction events, including a regular and beloved event in Bath called Story Fridays, which I ran with wonderful collaborators Kilter Theatre. We had many fine writers from the south-west and further afield treading the boards since we started in 2012. I have created events in a gothic chapel in Salisbury, a lightship in Bristol, a beautiful farm in Wiltshire, a derelict Georgian lido and a National Trust landscaped garden, amongst other locations. My company A Word In Your Ear specialises in producing new writing. Through A Word In Your Ear I have recorded stories for Bath Hospital Radio and received funding to produce and direct an audio play.  

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My plays have been performed on stage around the country. All of these plays have a strong narrative backbone, but often experiment with theatricality and form.

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In the past I worked for the BBC and Granada Television as a script editor and drama development executive and for independent production companies as a documentary researcher and producer. I have an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University.