Drama (in order of performance)
Teeth: (short farce): Professionally directed, pro/am cast. Performed at St. Peters School, Wolverhampton, June 2002, then the Arena Theatre, University of Wolverhampton, October 2002.
Sausages: (40 minute, comedy-drama): St. Peters School Theatre, Wolverhampton, June 2003.
The Magpie: (short story for Halloween) Performed by writer for a promenade audience at Bantock House, 31st October 2006.
Pupil Teacher: (60 mins, one-act, Victorian comedy-drama,): professional production, Bantock House, two evenings, November 2006.
King Kong: (15 minute, site-specific comedy) Specially created for Wolverhampton Art Gallery, for their Pop-Art wing opening, March/April 2007. Two 16 year-olds react to the Gallerys King Kong statue.
Stonehenge Or Bust: (short comedy) Script-in-hand piece with professionals, The Tractor Shed, Bantock House, June 2007.
Civic Pride: (55 minute, one-act drama). Site-specific, promenade piece. Professional production. 1st, 2nd, 3rd November 2007 at Bantock House. Arts Council funded.
The Man from the Works: (30 minute, comedy drama, for 10 to 13 years olds) Site-specific, half-hour, professional production, followed by one hour workshops with cast in costume/character. Arts Council funded. 7th to 15th November 2007. Bantock House.
Childrens version of The Man from the Works: 15 mins. specially adapted piece, for 9 to 10 year olds to perform script-in-hand. Piloted February 2008. Subsequent performances throughout school year. Bantock House.
The donkey and the unicorn performed by the author at the Newhampton Arts Centre on 14th August 2008, and at St Michael's RC Primary School on August 15th.
A is for Archives is a play for seven to nine year olds/Key Stage One and George John Scipio Africanus for nine to elevens/ Key Stage Two. 10 to 15 minute plays followed by one hour workshops including from cast in costume/character. They were professionally performed in the Rococo room of the Molineux Hotel, the Home of Wolverhampton Archives, from 29th June to 10th July, 2009, with funding support from the Museums Libraries and Archives Council (MLA).
A Question of Interpretation was one of six short plays written by members of New City Playwrights. These professionally directed and acted plays were performed as part of the family fun day to mark the opening of the refurbished Victorian Gallery in Wolverhampton Art Gallery on Saturday 27th June 2007, with performances for school visits and general audiences continuing for the following fortnight.
Have read extracts from (unpublished) comic novel Naturally Ambitious at various venues in Wolverhampton. The first chapter of the novel can be downloaded as a pdf here.
Founder member of Wolverhampton's New City Playwrights group.