Awards & Achievements
Won - The Hunter Davies Award for Young Writers
Won - The Cumberland and Westmorland Herald Creative Writing Competition
Runner Up - The Anne Pierson Award for Young Writers
Shortlisted (Top 20 out of 200+) - Silent Uproar's Writer Support Plan
Longlisted (Top 25 out of 350) - The First Laugh Comedy Writing Competition
Shortlisted (Top 8 out of 750) for the Richard Jenkinson Commission (Laurels Theatre)
Longlisted for The North East Playwriting Award (Live Theatre)
Longlisted for the Ilfeld Prize (Top 100 out of 700+)
Training & Workshops
I hold a First Class degree in Drama and Scriptwriting from Northumbria University.
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.
In 2025 I completed New Writing Norther's ADAPT workshops after having been longlisted for their ADAPT scheme. These workshops were on the subject of adapting your play into a TV series.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Projects section of my website has links to videos and audio clips of my writing if you fancy having a listen/watch!
About Me
Photo credit: Mark Savage