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Playwright

It all started in 1996 with a half hour script about London Bohemians (Wild Rice) which had a rehearsed reading at Off the Grove, a launchpad at the time for new writing. This led to Soho Theatre offering me a first stage playwriting workshop with Paul Sirett, and that was the encouragement I needed to get going. In 2001 I was invited to attend the one year Soho Theatre Writers’ Attachment scheme, and commissioned to write another play (Somewhere).

HahariHarry

A lads’ night gone wrong, that puts everything right.

Literary Consultancy winner, theatre script competition, January 07

Showcased at the Cochrane Theatre, August 05, directed by Jonathan Humphreys

Brandy Sour

Family secrets implode in a Greek Cypriot-run caff in Camden Town

Short-listed for the Verity Bargate 2000, and presented at the Soho Theatre Writers’ Festival, November 2001

Writer

My first novel, Golden Sand, is a coming of age story set in Famagusta, Cyprus during the early seventies. It’s a world of potatoes, peanuts, and politics, where personal history collides with history at large, charting the brutal reality of war on ordinary people’s lives.