As theatre director I recently directed Brave New Plays, a programme of new writing performed on the London Fringe at the Battersea Arts Centre, the Cockpit Theatre, the Lost Theatre, the Etcetera Theatre and the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre. I’ve run workshops/rehearsed readings of Hedda Gabler (Ibsen) and The Seagull (Chekhov) for actors at Transmission Workshop and for Charm Offensive as well as a workshop performance of new play Talk to Frank at The Others, Stoke Newington. I run devising workshops for children’s organisations in Islington.

A former secondary-school teacher and experienced private tutor, I work as a fiction writing coach, offering three low-cost one-to-one services for fiction writers plus hands-on workshops on writing skills. Here’s what my clients are saying about my coaching services.

I am a fiction writer (children’s/teen fiction) and have performed with various writing groups in central London venues.

I spent six years at the BBC and Teachers TV as project manager and content producer on multimedia-based education projects. I worked for two years at the Institute of the Future of the Book, latterly as Education Manager, researching and producing digital publishing  projects for publishers, writers and schools.

I co-authored the print-on-demand project 24 hr Book, meeting the ambitious target of writing, publishing and launching a novel within a weekend. For a year I collaborated to produce websites for the works of new writers. I’ve established friendly contact with print-on-demand companies, publishers, new media agencies and writers’ organisations.