Has written plays for theatres throughout the United Kingdom, including
Paines Plough and
National Theatre Wales. He won a Judges’ Award at the 2015 Bruntwood Prize for his play
How My Light is Spent at the
Royal Exchange, Manchester. He also wrote
The Opportunity of Efficiency, the first international collaboration for
National Theatre Wales with the
New National Theatre Tokyo. The play was staged at the
New National Theatre Tokyo's The Pit stage in 2013 and was directed by NTW artistic director John McGrath. In 2011 he set up
liveartshow, a company specialising in new theatre with music with director Martin Constantine and composer Harry Blake. The company staged
Manga Sister, a contemporary dance opera, at The Yard, London and the same venue staged a re-telling of
Rhinegold by the same company in 2012.
Liveartshow also presented
The Future For Beginners, a co-production with the
Wales Millennium Centre, at Summerhall at the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2014 along with a national tour. The production won a Musical Theatre Network Award while at Edinburgh. International work includes
Marsha at the
Capital Fringe Festival in
Washington DC and
A Scythe of Time, a collaboration with United States composer Mark Swanson. He wrote the television drama
The Left Behind for
BBC Three /
BBC Studios which won the
BAFTA for Best Single Drama in
2020 as well as the
Royal Television Society award in the same category. Radio plays include
The Gold Farmer for
BBC Radio 3's The Wire season and plays for
BBC Radio 4. His debut stage play,
Orange, was commissioned and produced by Sgript Cymru. He also was the playwriter for the bbc radio series 'Curious under the stars' which was broadcast on bbc radio 4extra for several years. He is the winner of a Creative Wales Award from the
Arts Council of Wales and represented by Emily Hickman at The Agency, London. ==References==