Awards & Achievements
Won - The Hunter Davies Award for Young Writers
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Won - The Cumberland and Westmorland Herald Creative Writing Competition
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Runner Up - The Anne Pierson Award for Young Writers
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Shortlisted (Top 20 out of 200+) - Silent Uproar's Writer Support Plan
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Longlisted (Top 25 out of 350) - The First Laugh Comedy Writing Competition
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Shortlisted (Top 8 out of 750) for the Richard Jenkinson Commission (Laurels Theatre)
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Longlisted for The North East Playwriting Award (Live Theatre)
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Longlisted for the Ilfeld Prize (Top 100 out of 700+)
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Training & Workshops
I hold a First Class degree in Drama and Scriptwriting from Northumbria University.
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I'm a member of The Writing Squad and spent a term being a part of Director's Cut Theatre Company's "Writer's Club".
I completed Live Theatre's ten week playwriting course in 2023/2024.
I’m a Cumbrian playwright, performer, facilitator (CRB checked) and comedian. I've been writing plays for twelve years since I was sixteen. I'm particularly interested in writing comedy drama, and writing about my home county of Cumbria.
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You can read about the Arts Council funded three week run of my one woman show '10 Things to do in a Small Cumbrian Town' at Alphabetti Theatre (2021) by clicking the link. The Penrith Players put on their own version of this play for a week in 2025 with an extended cast and a live band. This sold very well, completely selling out on the last night.
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Alongside co-writers Jamie McLeish and Lynne Patrick, I was shortlisted for the Richard Jenkinson Commission (reaching the top 8 entries out of 750). This led to Laurels Theatre programming our dark comedy anthology ‘Doomgate’ for a week in 2024. The show was reviewed by NARC magazine as "a real treat for any dark comedy lovers". I was also the assistant director and a co producer on the project.
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I wrote, directed and performed in a sixteen-night run of 'Just A Quick One' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2016. This was a sitcom style comedy play.
I've had many short plays staged all over the UK, including at venues such as The Southwark Playhouse, Union Theatre, Northern Stage (as a part of ‘Playing Up’), Canal Café Theatre, Alphabetti Theatre, The Staveley Roundhouse and more.
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I've had audio play commissions from Alphabetti Theatre (The Mystery Tour- an audio play) and Theatre by the Lake. My 45 minute long radio play 'The Village Weirdo' was produced by 1Five Events & Film. ​
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I wrote and performed sketches for BBC Newcastle's comedy radio show Grin Up North for two years. I'm part of a comedy collective with Grin Up North alumni, ‘Sun of a Gun’. We are in the early stages of producing our own live comedy sketch shows.
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The Projects section of my website has links to videos and audio clips of my writing if you fancy having a listen/watch!
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About Me
Photo credit: Mark Savage