There’s a screening of my Y Touring Play Stunted Trees and Broken Bridges at the Bloomsbury Festival on October the 16th at Warner Brothers Preview Cinema. Tickets are free but book soon as they’ll go fast. See here for further details.

We had a lovely reading of the first draft of my new play for Maggie Norris’s new company The Big House , who work with young people who have been through the care system. Maggie directed my last play HIS TEETH at Only Connect and I’ve always loved working with her and the amazing people she brings into her projects.   The play is called WILD DIAMONDS, and we had a grand old day in the sunshine on Hackney downs reading through the play and talking about it.

Very pleased to say I’ve just been made a Visiting Lecturer in Playwriting at the Regent’s School of Drama, Film and Media (formerly the London School of Film, Media and Performance) at Regent’s University, in Regent’s Park. I’ll be teaching on the MA in Writing for Screen and Stage.

I’m going to be a guest playwright mentor at the STAGE WRITE PLAYWRITING WORKSHOPS
at the Sydenham Arts Festival, which is very exciting for me as I live in Sydenham and have always wanted to get involved locally. The three workshops (which I think are free) are led by Judy Upton, and I’ll be coming in on the Sunday to work in depth on writer’s plays. The workshops culminate in a showcase of the work at The Hob in Forest Hill on the 10th July. For tickets to the showcase/places on the workshops, please either see the website or contact the box office on 020 3659 0551.

A screening of my Y Touring play, Stunted Trees and Broken Bridges, followed by a q and a featuring me and members of the company will take place on the 21st May: Please see here for further details:

The British Club, my radio-play detective thriller set in Bangladesh, starring Sanjeev Bhaskar and Samantha Bond, is now available for download on AudioGo for only £1.49…

I was the inuagural winner of the Bruntwood Prize in 2006, with PRETEND YOU HAVE BIG BUILDINGS. The competition is now open for submissions. For details of how to enter, please see here.
There’s a trailer for the prize with some of the winners talking about the prize, below.

The brilliant trailer for Stunted Trees and Broken Bridges:

From Y Touring:

Following on from the award winning production Dayglo last year, Y Touring will be returning with another series of special events for Science & Engineering Week 2013. Y Touring and Picturehouse Cinemas will be screening a specially produced film of Stunted Trees and Broken Bridges at cinemas across the UK. Audiences will also be given the added experience of participating in a live in-screen debate with guest scientists.

Phoenix Picturehouse, Oxford: Monday 18th March at 10am
Exeter Picturehouse: Tuesday 19th March at 10am
The Regal, Henley: Wednesday 20th March at 10am
Stratford East Picturehouse, London: Wednesday 20th March at 10am
Duke’s at Komedia, Brighton: Thursday 21st March at 10am
Picturehouse at FACT, Liverpool: Friday 22nd March at 10am

For more information please see:

http://www.theatreofdebate.com/

Following my attachment at the NT studio, we had a lovely reading of the play I wrote there, Crushed Shells and Mud, the other day. A brilliant cast: Sian Thomas, Ted Reilly, Tom Hughes, Lou Broadbent. Directed by Rebecca Frecknall.