Plays

On a night out in 2007, halfway down my second glass of wine (which is the only time you should EVER make a decision), I decided that I was going to write a play. The title was the first record I ever bought which, as I have the musical taste of a seven-year-old girl, was Save Your Kisses For Me. I wanted to explore why men’s and women’s friendships were so different and what would happen when two ‘straight’ guys dropped the fake macho nonsense and admitted to loving each other.

From its modest success I became the in-house writer for Heartbreak Productions (www.heartbreakproductions.co.uk) and have since had the great fortune (and fun) to adapt many novels for the stage, including seven of David Walliam’s marvellous children’s novels. I’ve now had eighteen plays produced (including five independent plays; the latest being Gay Pride And No Prejudice at the Union Theatre, London in October 2024). I’ve also had two novels published: The Rainbow Player, the story of a gay Premiership footballer (and for which I had my favourite ever review: ‘Like Alan Bennett on Viagra’) and Diary Of A Diary: three people’s experience of depression and a diary that writes its own entries. I’m also a copywriter and have written articles for companies such as LW Theatres, for whom I also wrote the scripts to the performed tours of Theatre Royal Drury Lane and The Palladium.