About me

I am a scriptwriter for stage and screen. My first play ‘Lessons For Diving’ won the inaugural Phil Fox Award, with a commission from Outside Edge Theatre Company; judges included Barbara Broccoli OBE, Nick Hern Books, and Simon Stephens, with mentoring from Tony Award-winning Enda Walsh (‘Hunger’, ‘Once’). My first feature script ‘This Is Home’ won the ‘Market Potential Award’ at Holland Film Meeting.

My Plays

Ketchup & Mayo


Synopsis:

‘Ketchup & Mayo’ is about Kelsey; a rising star of the culinary world who’s spent ten years in the city, training under a despotic michelin-starred head-chef.
But on the eve of a high-profile cooking competition, Kelsey finds out her dad is ill. So she’ s forced to abandon her career to return home and help out at the family truck-stop burger van: ’Big Phil’s Burger Emporium’.
Like with all good families, everything gets complicated and nothing will go to plan. Kelsey hasn’t seen her dad for years, and they clash immediately. Then she discovers he’s become best friends with her nightmare ex-fiancee. ‘Ketchup & Mayo’ speaks to family and ambition and trying to balance the two.


Number of Characters: 5


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 5


Length (in Pages): 92


Location: In an around one truck-stop burger van


Key Words: comedy, family, queer, food


Has the Play Been Produced? No


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? No


Award nominations/wins:


Reviews:

Lessons For Diving


Synopsis:

Danny has taken care of Jo since their Mum died of an overdose. After working long days for a Grimsby drug dealer, Danny comes home at night and coaxes his little brother back from terrifying visions of the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

Jo helps Danny bag up the brown powder, but when a Mexican fisherman warns Jo about the predators circling Danny every day, their plans to stop his brother dealing go badly wrong.

And as Danny’s job spirals out of control, Jo is caught in his own battle with a giant, man-eating Humboldt Squid…


Number of Characters: 3


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 3


Length (in Pages): 61


Location: A one-room bedsit in Grimsby


Key Words: young people, grief, magic-realism, healing


Has the Play Been Produced? No


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? No


Award nominations/wins: Winner of the Phil Fox Award


Reviews:

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