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November 2018
Double Bubble was one of three pieces performed script-in-hand at AWL Hammersmith on 5th November.
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November
Holding on, Letting go was one of three pieces performed script-in-hand at AWL Hammersmith on 5th November.
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November 2018
Buster in Paradise was one of three pieces performed script-in-hand at AWL Hammersmith on 5th November.
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October 2018
My talk on Godfrey's Ghost was given at a literary luncheon at the RAC Club, Woodcote Park, Surrey, on 16th October.
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October 2018
My collection of six short 10- to 15-minute comedies, Six of One, has been published by Stagescripts.
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October 2018
My short comedies, Six of One, were given a semi-staged rehearsed reading at the CAA, Covent Garden, on 3rd October.
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September 2018
My play, In Plain Sight, was performed at the North London Actors New Writing Showcase on 25th September.
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September 2018
I read my story Doing What Comes Naturally for Story Friday 'Tomorrow' at Burdhall's Yard, Bath, on 21st September.
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September 2018
The script of my one-act ensemble piece, Made For Each Other, is now available through the Stagescripts website.
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August 2018
A new version of my short story Moose-head, Doe-eyes, Shrew was published in Sleet Magazine Summer 2018.
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July & August 2018
Rude Awakenings was included in the St Mary's Theatre Club Summer Production, Isles of Scilly, in July & August 2018.
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June 2018
The script of my one-act romantic comedy, Alphabets & Angels, is now available through the Stagescripts website.
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May 2018
Rude Awakenings was performed by Bradgate Drama Society, at Newton Linford Village Hall, 10th-12th May.
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April 2018
A new version of Double Bubble was performed at Scripts Aloud! Manchester ADP, Kings Arms, Salford, on Monday 30th April.
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April 2018
My story, Unbuttoned, was among the pieces read at Talking Tales 18 at LeftBank, Bristol, on 21st April.
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April 2018
Losers was read at the Liars' League 'Small & Beautiful' 11th birthday show at The Phoenix, Cavendish Sq, on 10th April.
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March 2018
Rude Awakenings was performed by the Kirkudbright Parish Players, Kirkcudbright, on 23rd & 24th March.
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March 2018
Friendly Bombs was part of the AWL Showcase programme staged at the Polish Centre, Hammersmith, on 26th March.
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February 2018
Rude Awakenings was included in Coleshill's Triple Bill, Murder, Mayhem & Myth, 22nd to 24th February.
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February 2018
My story, A Sweet Refrain, was among those read at Talking Tales 17 at LeftBank, Bristol, on 17th February.
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January 2018
My story Always won first prize at The Squat Pen Rests Short Story Writing Competition in Swindon, on 26th January.
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January 2018
My play, Godfrey's Ghosts, was given a workshop reading at Heavy Entertainment, Wardour Street, on 24th January.
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December 2017
Room Service was performed at the NLA All Star Night 2017 at The Park Theatre, Finsbury Park, on 12th December.
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November 2017
Rude Awakenings opened a Double Bill given three performances by Sidbury Into Drama from 30th November.
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November 2017
My piece of creative non-fiction At the House of Anton Pavlovich was published in the November issue of O:JA&L.
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October 2017
So Not A Friend Of The Family Then? was performed in Scripts Live! at the CAA, Covent Garden, on 25th October.
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October 2017
Rude Awakenings was given five performances by the Palace Players, Kilworth, County Cork, from 14th October.
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October 2017
Rude Awakenings was performed by the Cotswold Players, Stroud, 12th-14th October.
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October 2017
Heaven & Hell Night was performed book-in-hand at Short Cuts as part of the Salisbury Fringe on 7th October.
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September 2017
An Account of Six Poisonings, was read at the Arachne Press 5th Anniversary celebrations in Lewisham on 8th September.
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July 2017
Rude Awakenings was performed by the Ugborough Dramatic Society, Devon, on 23rd & 24th July.
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June 2017
My monologue, Holding On, Letting Go, was given a first reading as part of the NLA New Writing Showcase on 27th June.
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June 2017
Silencer, my 12-line drama, was performed as a rehearsed reading at the AWL Showcase on 19th June.
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June 2017
So Not A Friend Of The Family Then? and Heaven & Hell Night were read as part of the SWWJ workshop on 3rd June.
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May 2017
Rude Awakenings was performed by The Burdock Valley Players in Upper Clapton, Andover, 5th - 7th May.
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April 2017
Rude Awakenings was performed by Mercury Theatre Wynnum, Queensland, Australia, 21,22,28 & 29 April.
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April 2017
Double Bubble was presented by Free Rayne Artists in 'Spiral' at The Southwark Playhouse, London SE1 on 9th April.
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April 2017
Rude Awakenings was performed by The Guild Players at Finchley Methodist Church Hall, London N3, 6th - 8th April.
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April 2017
Rude Awakenings was performed by the Helens Bay Players at St Johns Church Hall, Bangor BT19, 6th - 8th April.
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April 2017
Heaven & Hell Night was performed in the AWL spring competition 'Two sides of the coin' on 3rd April.
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December 2016
Holly, Polly, Tom, Dick & Harry was performed as part of the North London Actors 'All Star Night 2016' on 14th December.
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December 2016
Moose-head, Doe-eyes, Shrew was one of the stories read at Talking Tales, Bristol, on 10th December.
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November 2016
What Now was performed script-in-hand at ADP Manchester at the King's Arms, Salford, on 28th November.
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October 2016
Breaking-Point was one of the readings at The Speakeasy event held at Independent Spirit, Bath, on 4th October.
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September 2016
Rude Awakenings, my one-act comedy, has been published by the independent publisher Stagescripts Ltd.
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September 2016
JDJB Productions staged my one-act comedy Rude Awakenings at Stroud from 10th to 12th September.
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July 2016
A Sweet Refrain was one of five readings at The Speakeasy event held at Independent Spirit, Bath, on 28th April.
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July 2016
The Trees of Nature was performed script-in-hand by two different casts at Manchester ADP on 25th July.
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July 2016
Easels, Angels & Muffins was staged at the Brass Works Theatre, Warmley, Bristol, from 19th to 23rd July.
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July 2016
Unsighted was performed in Hammersmith as part of the AWL summer competition 'If Not Now, When?' on 18th July.
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May 2016
My play Bee All, End All was performed at ADP Manchester's Scripts Aloud 'Marmite Night' at the King's Arms on 30th May.
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May 2016
Gardening Leave was part of the OPEN Ealing "6x10" programme at the Orchard Café on 21st May.
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May 2016
Double Bubble was presented by Free Rayne Artists in 'Spiral' at Theatre N16 at The Bedford, Balham on 13th May.
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April 2016
An Account of Six Poisonings and Unarmed Combat were included in The Speakeasy inaugural event on 28th April.
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April 2016
Baggage featured in Bath Drama's Three of a Kind at the Rondo Theatre, Larkhall, Bath, from 13th to 16th April.
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April 2016
What Now? was performed script-in-hand in 'Shorts Cuts' at the Salisbury Fringe Preview, on 9th April.
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April 2016
So not a friend of the family then? was performed as part of the AWL spring competition: 'Don't Ask' on 4th April.
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February 2016
A dramatisation of The Trees of Nature was performed as a rehearsed reading in the AWL Showcase on 22nd February.
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February 2016
My short story, Love By The Month, has been published in Issue 149 ('The Love Issue') of Litro Magazine
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January 2016
My play Swinging was performed script-in-hand at The Kings Arms by Manchester ADP on 25th January.
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January 2016
My newly-revised one-act play, Made For Each Other, was performed script-in-hand at AWL on 25th January.
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January 2016
Rude Awakenings, my revised and re-titled one-act play, was performed script-in-hand at AWL on 25th January.
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December 2015
My short story Breaking-Point has been re-published in Wordland 6: Black is the New Black.
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December 2015
Mr Mouse's Munificent Gifts was performed as part of the AWL winter competition: 'Present' on 14th December.
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October 2015
The Mistress Bedroom had two performances in the Salisbury Fringe "Short Cuts" at The Cloisters on 3rd October.
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September 2015
My play What Now was given a second script-in-hand performance at OPEN Ealing's "12X10" on 27th September.
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June 2015
My recently-revised one-act play Awakenings was performed script-in-hand at The Nova Scotia, Bristol, on 14th June.
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April 2015
My short story Always was re-published by Rattle Tales in their latest collection of short stories Rattle Tales 3.
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April 2015
My travel story Can and Can't in Casablanca was published in the American online magazine Tales from a Small Planet.
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March 2015
Room Service was performed as part of the AWL spring competition ('A Knock at the Door') on 30th March.
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February 2015
My short story Made For Each Other has been re-published by theEXAGGERATEDpress in Wordland 5: True Love.
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January 2015
My short play, What Now, was included in the "6 x 10" performed readings at OPEN Ealing on 24th January.
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December 2014
The Mistress Bedroom was performed as part of the AWL winter competition ('The Proposal') on 15th December.
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December 2014
My short story A Sweet Refrain was published in the American literary magazine The Summerset Review.
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October 2014
A new version of my play, If As We Were Walking, was given a semi-staged reading at the CAA, Covent Garden, on 23rd October.
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October 2014
My short story, Cassiopeia's Hair, was published in the Irish literary magazine The Linnet's Wings, Autumn 2014.
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October 2014
A new version of my 10-minute absurdist piece, What Now, was performed at the AWL Showcase on 6th October.
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July 2014
My short story, Breaking-Point, was published in the American literary magazine Barbaric Yawp, Volume 17 Number 3.
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June 2014
A revised version of my play Gerard was performed as a semi-staged reading at AWL, Hammersmith, on 2nd June.
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June 2014
Weird Lies, which includes my story An Account of Six Poisonings, won the Saboteur 2014 award for best anthology.
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May 2014
My short story, Non-Paternity Event, was published in issue 59 of Tears in the Fence, the independent literary magazine.
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February 2014
My short story Always was among those read at 'Rattle Tales' at The Brunswick, Hove, on 13th February.
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January 2014
My full-length play Gerard was performed script-in-hand at The CAA, Bedford Street, Covent Garden, on 30th January.
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January 2014
My short story, Non-Paternity Event, was among those read at 'Family Tales' at The Ivy House on 13th November.
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December 2013
Holly, Polly, Tom, Dick & Harry was performed as part of the AWL spring competition ('Grapevine') on 16th March.
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December 2013
My Christmas sketch Ho! Oh! No! was performed at the North London Actors' All Star Night in Tufnell Park on 11th December.
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December 2013
My twelve-dialogue-lines 'playella', Silencer, was published on the Descent website on 5th December.
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December 2013
My play, If as we were walking, was given a first semi-staged reading at AWL, London W6, on 2nd December.
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November 2013
My two pieces, Gallipoli and Unarmed Combat, were read at The Ivy House Story Sessions on 13th November.
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October 2013
Be All, End All was performed at Genesis Live: New Writing Night at the Genesis Cinema, Mile End Road, on 17th October.
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October 2013
A new version of The Shadow and the Tree directed by Martin Cort was performed at the AWL Showcase on 7th October.
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September 2013
Weird Lies, which includes my story, An Account of Six Poisonings, was published on 26th September .
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August 2013
Double Bubble was performed at North London Actors' Open to All evening at the Oak and Pastor on 28th August.
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August 2013
Breaking Point was performed at North London Actors' Open to All at the Oak and Pastor, Tufnell Park, on 28th August.
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July 2013
To celebrate the first annversary of Arachne Press, An Account of Six Poisonings was read at Clapham Books on 18th July.
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June 2013
Doing What Comes Naturally was perfomed in WRiTEON's MaD season at the ADC Theatre Bar on 9th June.
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June 2013
The Shadow and the Tree, was perfomed in WRiTEON's MaD season at the ADC Theatre Bar on 9th June.
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May 2013
Baggage was given its first book-in-hand performance at AWL (Actors & Writers London) on 20th May.
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May 2013
Breaking Point was performed in WRiTEON's MaD season at the ADC Theatre Bar, Cambridge, on 19th May.
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March 2013
Double Bubble was performed as part of the AWL spring competition: 'If you had only told me' on 25th March.
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March 2013
My non-fiction piece, Gallipoli, was published in Ariadne's Thread Issue Five launched on 5th March in Richmond.
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February 2013
A new version of my short play, Gardening Leave, was performed as part of the AWL Showcase on 25th February.
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January 2013
Lovers' Lies, published by Arachne Press, was launched at Keats' House, Hampstead, on 27th January.
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January 2013
My short story, Always, was published in Ariadne's Thread Issue 4 launched in Richmond on 15th January.
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December 2012
Swinging was performed as part of the AWL winter competition: 'Changes' at The Polish Centre on 17th December.
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December 2012
My absurdist sketch What Now? was performed at the North London Actors' All Stars Night in Tufnell Park on 12th December.
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November 2012
Gardening Leave was performed on 11th November at WRiTEON's Naked Stage at the ADC Theatre Bar.
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September 2012
London Lies, published by Arachne Press, was launched at the London Review Bookshop on 5th September.
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June 2012
My short story, Moose-head and Shrew, was published in the June issue of London's Litro magazine.
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June 2012
An Account of Six Poisonings, was performed in WRiTE ON's MaD festival on 3rd June at the ADC Theatre Bar, Cambridge.
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May 2012
My radio play, Love By The Month, was given its first performance at AWL (Actors & Writers London) on 14th May.
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April 2012
Casting About was performed as part of the AWL spring competition: Shakespeare at the Polish Centre on 2nd April.