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Next up: I will be featuring in the short films Dark & Stormy and Belfast Caliber 9.

In July, I took part in the Black Box Academy's Stand Up Comedy workshops, delivered by Graeme Watson.

Throughout the month of April, I took part in an ongoing workshop introducing the discipline of clowning, delivered by Amadan Theatre company.

𝕻ilot season is the early months of the year, when a lot of production companies in Hollywood are creating new TV shows in the hope that th...

The West Wing's powerhouse ensemble cast elevated the brilliant writing

Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing was a monumental achievement in 21st century television, showing that the medium could be as ambitious as c...
Film: Jackalope [2017]

This is the film Jackalope I made last year with the always brilliant Frontier Pictures . It's a skin-crawling comedy horror, about a e...
Theatre is no longer the writer's medium

𝔗 heatre has evolved away from the writer. This is a stark statement, but increasingly proving itself to be true. Where once the writer was...
The Fallacy of Britpop's 'Big Four' Revisionism.

Britpop was a glorious era for British and Irish music, when bands from almost every major city in the country were generating enough ground...
Playboy of the Western World, a play for the 21st century.

UPDATE 𝕺n May 10-12 I'll be performing in J.M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World. The play is considered one of the great wor...