CURRENT PROJECTS:
My play The Blue Lenses, dramatised from the Daphne Du Maurier short story, was directed by Gemma Jenkins and broadcast on Radio 3 in April 2024 as a part of a major Du Maurier season.
My radio play Samaritan Number One, (available to listen here) an original drama about the uniquely outrageous vicar who founded the Samaritans was broadcast in November 2023, starring Reece Sheersmith and directed by Emma Harding.
My radio play Marian and George, (available to listen here) an original drama about the unconventional love life of George Eliot, was broadcast on Radio 4 in 2020, starring Lia Williams and Tom Goodman-Hill, directed by Emma Harding. It was selected by the BBC for a repeat airing in September 2022 following the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth.
It was chosen by the BBC as their Drama of the Week, and was selected by Gillian Reynolds in The Telegraph for her Pick of The Week.
FICTION:
My stories have been shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Prize (2022), The Bath International Story Prize (2024), The HG Wells International Story Prize (2023), and long-listed for the Fish Publishing Story Prize (2024) and twice for the Bristol Short Story Prize (2022 and 2023)
PUBLICATIONS:
Marian and George is published by Penguin in an audio compilation entitled Behind the Author’s Desk: Dramas of Famous Writers’ Real Lives, available here.
And it is also published on Audible, available on Amazon.
My short story Untethered is published in the HG Wells Story Anthology entitled 'Motion' and is available on Amazon here.
PREVIOUS DRAMA:
Tennessee's Women - 5-part adaptation for BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour
Fleshmarket - a commission from The Unicorn Theatre to adapt Nicola Morgan’s novel into a music theatre show.
The Custom of the Country - an adaption of Edith Wharton's novel
Translations:
For the Traverse Theatre:
Croniques des jours entiers des nuits entieres by Xavier Durringer
Surfeurs by Xavuer Durringer