Success in The Industry
His adaptation of The Railway Children is constantly performed by reps and amateurs and the Birmingham Rep produced a twenty five week nationwide tour. His other stage productions include Single Sex for the Queen’s Theatre in Hornchurch, Perfect Partners for the Bristol Old Vic and his comedy, Girls’ Night Out, a hugely successful play which toured for three years and had a ten week run in the West End in 1998.
He was also commissioned to write the screenplay for Girls’ Night Out for Jeffrey Taylor of StageScreen Productions and this is due to go into production early next year. His other films include Love Ties, which received development money from the MEDIA programme of the European Union, Raving Beauties and Losing It, optioned by Neil Peplow for Insider Films. His television credits include Starting Out (1980), Coronation Street, The Bill, and for five years he was a writer on Emmerdale. His six-part comedy drama, Perfect Partners, has been optioned by Kay Mellor’s company, Rollem Productions.
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