2022 In Review
This has been such a momentous year. Three prime ministers (!), the loss of the Queen and arrival of a ...
On Failure
When taking the leap doesn’t lead to flying. In June I took, what felt like, the biggest leap of my ...
Camp Nano: A Play?
Lights up on a frazzled woman hunched over a tablet in PJs. It is 1st April. Playwrighting begins. I ...
A Year of Entertainment: or Great Things from 2021
In a year filled (by pre-pandemic standards) with obstacles, fear and trials, the entertainment industry has been there to save ...
2022: What I’m Plotting
So with my review of 2021 in mind, what are my goals for 2022? Well I’m paring back. I’m going ...
2021 – A Retrospective
Well, this year has been … interesting in terms of hitting those goals. I didn’t manage most of them. A ...
2021 Kinda, Sorta Goals
After what is arguably the most bizarre year in living memory, a new year has finally dawned and now it’s ...
Wrapping Up 2020
Firstly, does anyone else keep mistyping 2020 as 2029? No? Okay, just me then. Crashing on … Well, that was ...
A Year of Entertainment
We’re getting close to the end of the year — what? I want to rush to the end of 2020, ...
Movie Fan Gift Guide: The Lockdown edition
Christmas is fast approaching and this year is likely to be very different for a lot of us. Fewer parties ...
Reject: The Fall Falls
Time for a little progress update. I submitted my play, ‘The Fall’, to The National Theatre on 23rd January and ...
19 Things Classic Movies Have Taught Me … In Gifs
How to deal with Handsy men Sports! How to be shooketh Diplomacy How to care for someone’s mental health How ...
Acting Challenges of Lockdown
Acting is a group activity. We train with other people; we audition with others and we spend most of our ...
Shifting Sands
I think I can safely say, it’s been one hell of a first half of the year! Between a global ...
Black Lives Matter
I’ve been a little quiet on here since my promise to return full throttle at the end of a hectic ...
Camp Lessons
It’s nearly the end of May and Camp NaNoWriMo is well and truly over. I wrote about my preparations for ...
A Sensitive Line in the Sand
I worry about offending people. In real life it can sometimes leave me feeling misunderstood or overlooked because I’ve been ...
April is the Camp-est Month
It’s time for my first Camp NaNoWriMo. I’ve participated in November NaNoWriMo, (National Novel Writing Month, for the uninitiated) on ...
Your Golden Valentine
Valentine’s Day is just round the corner, mere hours in fact! Somehow it always takes me by surprise how quickly ...