DAVID KERBY-KENDALL

When I was younger and hugely immature (as opposed to now when I’m older and hugely immature), if I had a difficult decision to make, I would imagine myself at the age of 95, looking back on my life and wondering what decision I would have liked to have made back then. Then I would snap out of my 95-year-old self and know which decision I needed to make, which was, invariably, the risky, exciting one.

At the age of 28 and after 11 years in banking, I finally decided I really wasn’t very good at it (the bank had decided this several years earlier), so I made the wonderful leap from my comfortable, owner-occupier life in Leicester to drama school in London, and a world of unnecessary scarves and thinking you’re the only person in the world who can understand Brecht (no one can understand Brecht ….probably not even Brecht). My 95-year-old self will be happy to know that I’ve never regretted a minute of it.

I began writing in 2007. I love sitting in cafés, making a decaf Americano last five hours (and a coffee and walnut cake last thirty seconds), switching my brain two degrees from normality and creating human beings and worlds you hopefully want to meet and walk into. I write in longhand with a fountain pen; because I prefer to and also because I type with the coordination of a newly born giraffe.

I have had twenty-one plays produced (including adaptations of seven of David Walliam’s wonderful children’s books), two novels published, and been lucky enough to have written for companies such as LW Theatres. I’m also honoured to have been cast in productions such as The Crown and Jack Shepherd’s Half Moon.

If you would like to contact me with ideas, commissions, collaborations, or just to say ‘Hello’, please use the Contact page; I’d love to hear from you.

Have a wonderful year,

David