I am an award-winning actor, writer, director and producer of TV drama. I have run a successful TV drama development company, Picture That, and been a Development Executive at the BBC. I have been a TV scriptwriter and director of TV drama for over 20 years. Born in Coventry in the English Midlands, I studied Drama/English at Hull University and began working as an actor in the theatre with such names as Mike Bradwell, Danny Boyle and Anthony Minghella; And with companies as diverse as Hull Truck, The Bush and Stratford East. I also worked extensively in film and TV appearing most notably as Eric Catchpole in over 50 episodes of the BBC's long running series, Lovejoy. Through my own company, Picture That, I developed drama series for the BBC, ITV and C4 and produced and directed award winning short films, To Baldly Go, Poppy's Present, and Puke Fiction (The Vomit Trilogy). My broadcast TV drama directing credits include: Dream Team, Coronation Street, Crossroads, Family Affairs, Hollyoaks, Courtroom, The Royal Today Doctors and over 60 episodes of East Enders. My script writing credits include: The Dig, a two act comedy for The Cambridge Theatre company, feature film screenplays No One There, and Human Resources, Mancini’s Empire for LWT, One Inch Of Heaven for the BBC, Roeg’s Rage for Chrysalis, Wired, for the BBC comedy department, plus numerous episodes of The Bill for ITV and Doctors, Casualty and Holby City for the BBC. I am currently writing for the theatre and television and I am Artistic Director of Public Domain Productions. I am a cofounder of the Tolpuddle Radical Film Festival and a member of the TV Committee of the Writers Guild Of Great Britain. In 2014 my theatre play, The Liberty Tree, was one of the winners of the Script6 national playwriting competition run by The Space and was produced in May/June 2015 in a co-production between Public Domain and Bath Spa University. In November 2014, after several years of research and development, I completed my play, Nadya, about Stalin’s second wife, Nadya Alliluyeva, which was presented as a rehearsed reading at The Park Theatre in September 2015 by The Production Exchange, and starring Michelle Terry, Stephen Tompkinson, Phyllis Logan, Shaun Prendergast, Dominic Mafham, Rupert Holiday Evans, David Robb and Jamie Foreman. I have lectured on scriptwriting and Film & TV production at the University Of West London, Leeds Metropolitan University and Bath Spa University.