About me

Playwright, radio and stage. MA Scriptwriting Bath Spa University, winner BBC Solent Radio Playwrighting Competition, former Open Session Writers Bristol Old Vic.

My Plays

End Game


Synopsis:

Two miles from Troy, Odysseus dreams. Every night, the exact same dream: Iphigineia, Agamemnon’s dead daughter offers him a plan for winning the war, a plan cunning enough to fool even the legendary King Priam. Every night, Odysseus turns her down, appalled by the cruelty her plan involves, the price he will have to pay.
But tonight is different. Achilles is dead, and with him all hope of military victory. Is Odysseus finally desperate enough to pay her price in the hope of getting home, as well as admitting to himself who he’s really been talking to all these years?


Number of Characters: 6


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 6


Length (in Pages): 50


Location: In and around the city of Troy, 10 years into the siege


Key Words: Myth


Has the Play Been Produced? No


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? No


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Paper Human


Synopsis:

Two civil servants - one in Holland in 1941, the other in France in 1943 - attempt to destroy the millions of IBM punch cards being used to identify Dutch and French Jews for ‘Resettlement in the East’ on behalf of the S.S.


Number of Characters: 4


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 4


Length (in Pages): 50


Location: Simultaneously Holland in 1941, France in 1943


Key Words: historic, WWII


Has the Play Been Produced? Yes


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? No


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Ten Famous People from Swindon (Radio)


Synopsis:

A ’road movie for the radio’. Carl and his dad, are driving to dad’s house for a scheduled weekend. They haven’t been getting on and both have things on their minds: what was the reason behind Carl's recent detention at school? What is the question Dad can't quite get round to asking?
Over the course of the journey, can they begin to build bridges and repair their relationship?

Ten Famous People from Swindon was broadcast on BBC Upload, BBC Gloucestershire, 6th February 2025.


Number of Characters: 2


Minimum Number of Actors Required: 2


Length (in Pages): 22


Location: Dad\'s van, during a road trip to Swindon


Key Words: comedy, drama


Has the Play Been Produced? Yes


Are the Rights Available? Yes


Has the Play Been Published? No


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Stephen Connolly
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