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I am a creative who writes, create and perform small-scale touring storytelling shows.

I’ve also directed professionally, booked tours, been a dead body in a 70s TV show theatre revival (briefly), acted in improv marathons, performed in the band for improv marathons, booked and run comedy nights for venues large and small, compered gigs, and performed poorly paid stand up comedy from time to time. Because it’s important to keep busy.

Every Time I Close My Eyes, All I See Is You

Toured 2023

A solo storytelling show about counting steps, walking and making a sign to protest an elderly man sat in the window of a care home. Set during the Covid lockdowns and thematically about loneliness, loss and disconnect – but also, quite funny and fairly sweet. Watch here.

Toured to: Pwllheli, Prescott, Preston, York, Sheffield, Huddersfield and Cardiff.

Every Little Hope You Ever Dreamed (But Didn’t Want To Mention)

Toured 2021 & 2022

A solo storytelling love-story about a man who is ominously similar to me, falling in love on a train. Multiple timelines detailing what it is to find, lose and re-find “the one”. Funny, mostly quite sweet and also had an extensive section about the dangers of biking down a steep hill. Watch here.

Toured to: Aberystwyth, Cardiff, Wolverhampton, Mold, York, Liverpool, Lancaster, Wigan, Halifax, Huddersfield and Harrogate.

Gaffer by Chris Chibnall

Directed at Unity Theatre, 2015

Chris Chibnall’s (Dr Who, Broadchurch) one man comedy about a football manager at a failing team who is kissed by his teenage star striker. The show got great reviews and was in the top 10 things to see in Liverpool for 2015. Simon Hedger played the lead, Julie Kearney did LX and I did the rest. It ran for 2 weeks and was supported by Everton In The Community.

Truth, and the unexpected side effects of putting up signs

Performed 2017

I wrote an hour long show essentially in response to the lies and mistruths that were being spouted during the Brexit referendum. The show revolved around me putting up a fake sign in central Chester and the ripple effect of that. It only really reached work-in-progress status which is a shame because it had potential (this was filmed at a double header with the brilliant Rob Thomas). I tried to perform it two more times but got audiences of, well, zero, so decided it was cursed. You can watch the work-in-progress by clicking here.

Floating

Toured 2012

This was an hour-long monologue about a nurse in the NHS working in the high-dependency unit. It was the first thing I’d written for a long time and while some of the reviews were good I did get one particularly scathing one that killed my confidence in writing drama completely. However, it was a massive achievement to get ACE funding and tour this show with my sister playing the main part. We also had some amazing feedback from NHS staff who felt it spoke for them.

Toured to: Liverpool, York, Oxford, Washington, Swindon, Dorchester, Stockton, Wolverhampton and Hull.

A Little Bit

Performed 2015

I wrote a 90 minute show to see whether I could truth be told. It was about election leaflets and was a) massively too long and b) massively too long – however, it did have a core that was interesting and had something about it. You can watch the first sharing of the opening which I performed at a scratch night at Unity Theatre in Liverpool by clicking here.

Revenge

Performed 2008

The first time anyone saw this it was performed by me, Damien Cruden (Olivier Award-winning director) at a workshop led by American playwright Donald Freed, in front of an audience that included James Cromwell (Farmer Hoggett in Babe). It went well enough and I was encouraged to make the full show which I did with a couple of outstanding actors – Paul Osbourne and Paul Stonehouse. It was 5 short scenes, all weird, all funny, all tangentially linked and with one of the best necrophilia jokes found in any play that decade. Solid comedy, that sold out for 3 nights and was promptly never seen again.