About me
Writer in Residence at the RSC 2024 - 6.
Papatango Prize Winner 2017.
Recent tortoise acquirer.
My Plays
The Bounds
Synopsis:
The year is 1553, the true Golden Age of English football. It's the Allen Valley Whitsun Game, and men will die today. This is the big game, and it's been raging for hours. Percy and Rowan are out in the middle of nowhere, miles from the action, when a stranger joins them. A stranger with tidings that will blow their world apart. Time passes. Night falls. The great chain of being collapses. And they're losing the bloody football...
Number of Characters: 4
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 4
Length (in Pages): 120
Location: Allendale, Northumberland
Key Words: comedy, sports, and rural
Has the Play Been Produced? Yes
Are the Rights Available? Yes
Has the Play Been Published? Yes
Award nominations/wins:
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The Ghost Hunter
Synopsis:
Richard runs a ghost tour in York, and he has some rather spooky tales to tell. There’s one in particular, the one they all go home talking about. It’s about something buried beneath the cobbles. It’s about the past. It’s about ghosts … and it’s about to catch up with him.
Number of Characters: 1
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 1
Length (in Pages): 58
Location: The Black Swan, York
Key Words: ghost story
Has the Play Been Produced? Yes
Are the Rights Available? Yes
Has the Play Been Published? Yes
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Trestle
Synopsis:
Harry feels like life is beginning to tick down, his autumn years spent quietly caring for the community he loves. Denise thinks life begins in retirement and she's dancing like she's still at high school.When their paths cross at the village hall, their understanding of the time they have left changes irrevocably. What do community, growing old, and falling in love really mean? And who gets to decide anyway?
Number of Characters: 2
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 2
Length (in Pages): 87
Location: Village Hall, Yorkshire
Key Words: comedy
Has the Play Been Produced? Yes
Are the Rights Available? Yes
Has the Play Been Published? Yes
Award nominations/wins: Papatango New Writing Award
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