A warm welcome to you. I am James and I am a playwright. I thought I would just put up a website that has all the information, reviews, images, scripts, and the odd video that I could find lying around that is related to anything I have written that has been fortunate enough to have been produced. I'll try and keep up a blog on this thing as well to keep myself and I hope yourselves amused. If you need to contact me for any reason, please feel free as I am always ravenous for projects and collaborations or even a natter about this stage-writing racket in general. 

I suppose I had better rattle through a biog.

 

 

Having studied Drama at Queen's University Belfast. Previous work includes the BBC/Stewart Parker Award nominated ''Choking the Butterfly'' for Best New Play [Tinderbox Theatre Company] and EBE Ensemble for its New York premiere last year. The Sylvia Plath adaptation ''After The Bell Jar'' [Green Room Productions]. Also, the Edinburgh Fringe shows ''The Audition'' which has been subsequently produced in London and LA as part of the Hollywood Fringe by varying companies, and ''The Importance of Shoes'' [Weaver Hughes Ensemble] adapted itself as an audio play [Wireless Theatre Company] . ''Glimpse Due Solace'' [ Loughborough Stage Society]. I also provided text for Queen's CETL NI multi-disciplinary arts project ''Waiting At The Edge Of Nowhere''. Also a number of produced short plays ''Glossina Palpalis'' and ''Rain Falls'' [Belfast 25 Project], ''Flush'' [Cr8 Project] and ''The Mallard'' for Bo Leitreach's Annual Green Festival.

 

I have recently Co-Founded and am Resident Writer of PUNCHEDcanvas Theatre Company based in Belfast and we'll be doing a staged reading of my new play ''A Decent Woman'' which will be directed by Co-Founder Emma Copland in October.