About me

I have written plays for thirty years. Most of them were put on in small theatres with a bare stage, a few chairs and one good lamp, and I have sat at the back of the room for every one, pencil in hand, learning what I got wrong. A play only shows you its problems when someone says the lines out loud.

The things I sell are the tools I use myself: a worksheet that shapes a story into five stages, questions that make a character real, an outline for a scene, cards that start a conversation on the page. I have also put in some of my own short plays and monologues, so you can read how another writer solves the same problems.

I teach in two video courses, one for a first one act play and one for monologues, and I send a short letter every week from the rehearsal room. You do not need a theatre or any training. You need a pencil, a quiet hour and something you want to say.