WRITING

BOOKS:
Directing Television - a professional survival guide (Bloomsbury 2012)

Sea Change
- a novel (2021) - A stormy voyage into the third age

SCRIPTS
Rough Trade (stage)
A gay take on Dumas’ La Dame aux Camellias for the age of AIDS - produced Bristol fringe, 1988

Enigma (screen short 1999) - a wry look at gender expectation and confusion

- broadcast: HTV (Brief Encounters) 1999
- screened: British Short Film Festival + Brief Encounters 1999, Kinofilm 2000

Come Out Fighting (formerly Love and War) (screen + stage)
An exploration of male sexuality and violence, inspired by Merimee’s Carmen
- stage version toured SW and London with What Now Productions, ACE funded, autumn 2023
- shortlisted for Script Factory South West 1999

Queer Counsel (stage + screen) - A clash of the gay and the godly – inspired by a true story of conversion therapy - stage version produced Warehouse Theatre, Croydon + tour April/May 2004, funded by ACGB, Elmley Foundation

Cleaning Up (screen) - Reality television gets out of control – inspired by first-hand experience

Higamus Hogamus (screen) - A comedy of manners amongst modern multisexual relationships

Bangkok Butterfly (screen) - a contemporary gay take on the immortal story of Madame Butterfly
- novel in preparation....

Free to Be (W/T) (screen) - adapted from Breaking Free by Christopher Lee Power
​A young man breaks out of a life of crime in the back streets of Birkenhead to become a professional actor
- commissioned by CLP Productions 2019

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