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Why, hello. 

This website is a portal, an online filing cabinet in space if you will, for all the acting and writing stuff I've done along the way. Feel free to have a rifle through.  

If you want to know more about my communications, copywriting and marketing services, check out my business website, Faultless Copywriting or scroll through my LinkedIn.

I've whacked this photo up here because I just love it. These wonderful pigeon feet come courtesy of Scene and Heard, the fabulous charity I volunteer for in Camden. I played Violet the pigeon conservationist and it was every bit as brilliant as it sounds. 

Babies and the media hard sell

I've started writing a new column for Standard Issue magazine. My first article is about babies and the media hard sell and you can read it here. 

Boo Hoo

Tickets are now on sale for Boo Hoo the play I am writing and performing in (I'm a double threat). All of which has motivated me to write / procrastinate more meaningfully. It's at the Hen and Chickens in Islington. Book tickets today!
August 16 at 7.30pm
August 17 at 7.30 pm


Now booking via The Camden Fringe

Coming soon... a play!

To Russia For Love

Hot on the heels of our lovely show at The Arcola, tomorrow I'm taking part in To Russia For Love, a fundraiser for Stonewall. I'm performing a wonderful scene from Turgenev's A Month In The Country with Ms Alys Torrance. Artistic Director Jen Lunn talks about the project in The Indy here.

The Story Project 5: Fame, Fear and Fables

And so to The Story Project at The Arcola. I'm in a play called The Boy Who Never Learned To Fly and we open on 19th October. I shall be cracking out a Lancashire accent which should be worth the ticket price alone. So if you see me walking down the street muttering 'Betty's hotpot' under my breath, that's why.

And a little bit later......

So, jumping forward a few months, Entertaining Angels was a really enjoyable tour (it really was. I'm not even pretending in a bid to make my life look better than yours). There were reviews and they are here (leftlion), here (the stage) and here (reviewsgate). I particularly like the one that says Judith Faultless is terrific as wife Mel. But that's just me.

Preview time

Well it's tech week and we preview on Thursday 2 May at The Lakeside, We feature in The Guardian here: What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips http:

Entertaining Angels

Well here's some news from New Perspectives. Entertaining Angels is now fully cast. It's on the internet so it must be true. Plus they told me. So, I'm off to Nottingham next week to start rehearsals. Good. Stuff.

The Travelling Plays

Hitting the Road - The Travelling Plays is the latest from Scene and Heard, a fabulous charity that works with the kids of Somerstown. I dramaturged a play exploring the relationship between a leech and an HP Sauce Bottle. It's one of twelve amazing plays that open tonight. Can't wait!

I'm pretty much making it up....

So, I've been brushing up my impro skills. Improv skills. Whatever. It's all fun and games. It really is. And, excitingly, it leads me to this - a couple of impro shows with Hoopla at The Miller, London Bridge on 6 March and 27 March 2013...... I love a gig I don't have to prepare for.

Nottingham you say? Well why not.

Well, excellent news, I've been cast in a new play. Entertaining Angels opens on 2 May so I'm heading to Nottingham for a couple of months. I'm really looking forward to it. Nottingham, brace yourself.

Gigging news

Exciting! Torrance and I are hitting the road again with some live stuff. It's been a while so I'm hoping I remember how to bellow and panic, two things central to my performance. We're kicking things off here: (brace yourself I'm about to add a link). 

Crack Comedy with Faultless and Torrance

So if you're free on 1 March...... 

SPY

I'm in Spy this Friday 30th at 8.30pm. It's on Sky. So I can't watch it. But if you can, tune in. Tell me how it went.

Quick, whilst I've worked out how to do this...

They've changed how blogger.com works. I've found how to do this update by magic and there's no knowing if I'll ever get back on here again. So, whilst I'm here..... I just found this review of the play High Vis I performed last year. Written by Clara Brennan and directed by Hannah Price it was one of my favourite things I've ever done ever.  I've never seen any reviews of it before so I'm posting the link (then at least I'll know where to find it if I need it again). I'm not tech savvy but I've really sussed filing. The Stage review of High Vis

Filming SPY was tremendous fun and I got to dress as a copper on the old set of The Bill. I now have a picture of me outside Sunhill. Cue bogus credit appearing on my CV some day soon.

And I'm doing Scene and Heard again. A brilliant charity based in Euston working with kids in the area, I'll be acting in what will certainly be a terrific play - they always are. Last time I was a Prit-stick so the bar is set pretty high.

Spy

And so it's time to leave the park, don the police costume and start filming Spy for Sky. I figure this will air sometime in the Autumn......

And I meant to say

that I'm also in The Offer, one of the plays directed by Jen Lunn as part of the latest Write Here programme at the Brockley Jack. And now I have.

See you on Dave?

And this is how you find out how many people watch Dave and how often. It's a lot and a lot. My Only Fools and Horses ident is playing, apparently constantly based on the number of people who have commented on it. It's only a matter of time before the grumpy jester work starts flooding in.....

Only Fools.....

It's a conundrum working out what warrants space on this piece of high end e-real estate. My aim is to update on what I'm working on but I've made some kind of decision to leave writing out of that (about to finish the second draft of treatments for our sitcom as it happens but the fact the I've nearly ticked that off my to do list doesn't seem newsworthy). On Saturday I filmed an ident for GOLD. About some office workers being forced to dress as fools and horses to celebrate Only Fools And Horses month on GOLD. My character had to looked pissed off at having to dress as a jester for work. It wasn't hard to channel. Actually it was a lovely idea and deserves to be very funny. But is it news?

Gulliver's Travels BBC Radio 4

My turn as Queen Liliput and The Empress of Blefusco hits the radio waves on Sunday 5th February - 3pm, Radio 4. And then it's on listen again. And then it's repeated on Saturday 11th. It's a lovely script by Matt Broughton and directed by the marvellous Sam Hoyle. Yay!