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Writer, director, actor, creative coach, list maker. Credits include ONE WOMAN ALIEN, YEAR WITHOUT SUMMER, FOUR PLAY, THE CITY OF DR MOREAU, THE HAUNTING OF GABRIEL CHASE
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I’m hosting the Ghostwalk of the Lanes, Brighton twice this week! Wednesday & Saturday night. No need to book, just meet outside Druids Head 7.30pm. £12/£10/£8: ghostwalkbrighton.co.uk

People might want to claim that we’re all-of-a-sudden talking about toxic masculinity and claiming that men can only be men where they bare their teeth, but Stephen King was pushing against this 44 years ago:

It’s three years later, and my ideas (with the same creative partner, no less) haven’t got any less needlessly convoluted. Indeed, I’m procrastinating here right now because the current draft is threatening to overwhelm me* *it’s empty threats; I’ll be fine

Every weekday morning at 9am GMT (plus 5 other times throughout the week!) Ironclad Creative CIC presents the Virtual Writers’ Space - Online 1hr writing retreats held all week - every week! £3 each or ALL SESSIONS INCLUDED with the Creative Cauldron Membership! www.eventbrite.com/o/30757103100

I’ll be hosting the Ghost Walk of the Lanes as Jasper THIS THURSDAY at 7.30pm! No need to book, just turn up outside the Druids Head at 7.30pm. £12 / £10 / £8 ghostwalkbrighton.co.uk

So by the end of the year, it will still be named after an individual who has technically served as president. And that’s as much of the prediction as I’m willing to commit to, at the risk of manifestation etc

prints looking very handsome indeed. get yours here: tomneenanart.bigcartel.com/product/feat...

So, uh, fringe housing. Are there any kind and generous people who would fancy putting up a financially precarious, freelance critic for 1-2 weeks? I can confirm I’m extremely quiet and boring, and will keep myself to myself. I can pay a little but not even close to some of the numbers I’m seeing

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Ron Howard FTW 🎯

Musicals adapting books of the 70s & 80s are amazing: It’s a war! The women are mostly abused & die alone! It’s a revolution! The women are mostly abused & die alone (with shaved heads)! It’s a book of poems about our pets

Was thinking about writing a play about Mick Jagger and his bandmates & making it highly critical but I refuse to cast the first stone

I don’t care if the maths don’t work; I feel that the number of people with a Daunt Books tote bag is violently disproportionate to the number of people who have actually been to Daunt Books

Started the day dropping in on the Writers’ Space for @ironcladcreativecic at Hastings Library, then doing some work on #Shuffle for @dqbrighton, then at a session with @theactorsloungeuk in Eastbourne. All in all, quite a packed Tuesday ..

‘To teach Drama is to teach life. It is to teach how to be human, how to have agency, how to be heard. How to work through our differences, how to compromise, struggle, think and feel. How to be an intelligent, successful and humane society.’ FIN KENNEDY

As tradition dictates, the play I’m currently writing (‘Shuffle’ for @dqbrighton) is far more complicated than it really needs to be. I’m usually more of a Pantser than a Planner, but there’s a couple of moving parts I haven’t yet caught a glimpse of. #Writing #AmWriting #stageplay #WorkInProgress

‘Excuse me - are you guys a couple?’

I can’t be the only one who avoids watching The Apprentice these days because there’s too much risk of eventually manifesting a mediocre out of touch incurious man as a political leader

‘Excuse me: are you guys a couple?’

The Ghost Walk of the Lanes is back for 2025! I host the walk as JASPER most weeks, and this week I’ll be your guide on SATURDAY NIGHT at 7.30pm - meet outside the Druids Head, no need to book. £12 / £10 / £8 ghostwalkbrighton.co.uk

How long til he orders that the words at the foot of the Statue Of Liberty gets filed down like the registration details on a stolen car?

FBI academy, Quantico, VA, 2025. Donald Trump, literally graywashing the values out of America.

For the evening crowd - c. 85,000 signatures so far! Help save a genuinely different indie cinema experience. #Filmsky

Unsolicited writing advice, no. #766: Writing is a community. Participate in it if you can. Engage with other writers. Lift them up, and they’ll do the same. Try to go it alone, or treat other writers as rivals, and you’re more likely to sink than swim.

OVERHEARD (on the way out of) IN BRIGHTON: ‘Is *that* the Gherkin? Is *that* the Gherkin?’ NB: he’s about 30, and we haven’t even got to East Croydon yet

The Prince Charles Cinema London is under threat. Sign the petition: #SaveThePCC princecharlescinema.com/savethepcc/

This is your periodic reminder that I got my friends together a while back to make... an entire TV series by ourselves? It's called Murder for Dummies, it's a six-episode comedy-horror-murder-mystery-mock-doc about a dead ventriloquist, and it's all on YouTube. Trailer! youtu.be/OQm2yOdRo6I?...

Requests for s4 of #TheTraitors : Secret Traitors - secret from us, or each other. Or both. A Traitor’s ID hidden in plain sight A ‘false’ murder - either of Traitor or Faithful: gone for 2 days, then returned to the castle.

Spoken without spoilers: Minah my favourite, Alexander my spirit animal, but Frankie: Warrior Queen fighting to the last. Amazing finale. #TheTraitors