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I had my first play performed on TV at the age of sixteen, and since then have written novels, stories, songs and work for radio, TV, cinema and stage, including the novel State of Independence, the screenplays The Man Who Knew Too Little (Warner Bros, 1997, starring Bill Murray) and Bedrooms and Hallways (1998); and, for the stage, Lovers From Hell (2004-5) and Wild Fruit (2006), both at Oval House. My work as director includes my adaptation of Shaun Levin’s The Smell of Asparagus Pee (in Lovers From Hell) and the short films Sunday Morning and Donut. A one-time pop pretender (as front-man for The Mystery Girls, signed to A&M records), I recently returned to live performance, singing with Brighton-based cabaret combo The Desperate Ones. I am currently planning to publish a collection of fairytales, The Prince Who Lost His Penis and other Stories, as a limited edition, helped by designer Simon Reed.

This year I will be concentrating on film work. In between times I will be working on my next play, a full-length version of my one-act play Get The Guest in Lovers From Hell. The working title of the play is Flesh Is Weak, and the setting, a gothic B&B surrounded by a thick fog, echoes my grandfather's 1940s comedy Love In A Mist. I have been thinking about whether theatre as a form is really suited to post-modernist modifications, and am now working in a consciously retro (ie, pre-Pirandello) style. The full-on queer content of my stage-plays is, I think, post-modernism enough.

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