Playwright. Poet. Translator.

I write and make plays. Commissions include from the National Theatre, Birmingham Rep, Nuffield Southampton, Plymouth Rep, Britschool.

I work with youth groups, in the community, in schools, universities, with mental health, ex-offenders and vulnerably housed groups, devising and writing.

I work with a wonderful group of actors as The Fuse, making dramatic and literary happenings in non-theatre spaces.

Currently in my seventh year working on the National Theatre's New Views scheme as a playwright mentor and as a new venture co-writing a musical.

PLAYS: BURN 2005/6 National Theatre (and international)

ROSALIND, A QUESTION OF LIFE 2005 Birmingham Rep

THE FOREST 2006/2008 Plymouth Rep/Dundee Rep/Polka Theatre/York Rep

THE CAGE 2007 Nuffield Theatre, Southampton

SAFE 2008 National Theatre

RLF fellow, Chichester University 2008-2011

THE GARAGE PLAY, 2011 - one of three plays written for, and performed in a house.

THREE EMPTY CHAIRS,2012 - a play created from Kafka's diaries of 1911, with Laura FitzGerald for Theatre Royal Winchester

SOMETHING FOR THE WINTER 2011/2012 Southwark Theatre and Sweden tour, The Bridge Company (Britschool leavers' company),

WELL...ROUGH, 2012, a community play for Wellingborough

@TROY, 2013 with Fiona Mackie as the Fuse; a writing for performance research and development project, funded by ACE/National Lottery. Performed at the Gurkha Museum, Winchester.

BETWEEN WIND AND WATER, 2013, for Now Heritage! play about Southampton's docks and shipyard workers, written from interviews with older people and using oral history archive.

POSTCARDS FROM THE BIG BLUE, 2014. A play about climate change for primary schools.

A MOUTHFUL OF EARTH, 2015 a NOW HERITAGE! play for Winchester Great Hall and tour, commemorating the battle of Agincourt. LOTS of research, three actors (1M, 2F) and a soundscape made with the help of Over the Wall, a drama group which grew out of the Winchester prison play.

UPBEAT, FOREST FORGE, 2016 A play with songs about the connectedness of siblings and the landscape of our chalk stream rivers. Tour of South-West.

STONE SOUP, 2017 - with The Fuse and New Road Theatre An evening of dramatic scenes and poetry by myself and Greg Gilbert, with Fuse actors, in God's House Tower, Southampton.

RESIDENCY WITH FOREST FORGE, 2017 at Buckler's Hard, in the Observatory (travelling arts space). Workshops and Exhibition of Dendrology handmade book, and sound installation with poems and interviews, in the New Forest Heritage Centre, Lyndhurst as part of celebrations for 800 years of the Charter of the Forest.

THE HOPE, 2019 - with The Fuse and New Road Theatre a promenade play around Southampton with Fuse actors and the city...culminating in a pop-up pub.

WELCOME TO MY GARDEN , 2021 with New Road Theatre and Lepe Country Park. A three-hander about the garden and the poet Ethel Clifford, commissioned to animate the sensory garden. In parallel I ran a series of poetry workshops with Oak Lodge SEND school.

Translations: Films: Interview with a thirteen year old boy, Continuum - both directed by Baerbel Freund

Theatre: OEDIPUS CITY by John v. Dueffel, together with playwright David Spencer, for Deutsches Theater, Berlin