Excerpt from: The New Companion to the Literature of Wales – editor Meic Stephens
‘Born 1954 in Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan. His passionate, humane and sometimes angry concern for the plight of ordinary people is evident in much of his writing. Above all he articulates feelings of disempowerment experienced by those who find themselves caught up in economic and political changes beyond their control. Although the world he presents is often bleak, his plays are also characterized by mordant black humour and an affectionate, sharp ear for the idiomatic English of South Wales.’
2015 The Application, Libretto Four:30, CapeTown Opera. Artscape Theatre, CapeTown
2015 Gimme Some Truth, (Writer & Director) ChainWorks Production, The Factory, Porth
2015 Gladiator, (Writer & Director) co Production ChainWorks, RCT Theatres. National Tour Wales
2014 Yesterday Never Returns, (Writer & Director) co production ChainWorks, Lewis Schools, Pengam, Caerphilly Arts. Blackwood Miners Institute
2014 More Than Just A Game, (Writer & Director) youth theatre production, ChainWorks. The Factory, Porth
2013 ChainWorks Productions , Artistic Director of own company with Creative Producer Denise Lord. Based at The Factory, Porth
2013 The Bells Ring Alone, (Writer & Director) short film with Like An Egg Productions.
2012 ‘Torchbearers’ (Writer & Director) Donald Gordon Theatre, WMC & Artscape Theatre, Cape Town, South Africa
2012 The Castle – Awen Project – Caerphilly CBC + Heolddu Comprehensive, Cauldrons & Furnaces, Cultural Olympiad
2011/12 Schools & Community Writing Workshops – Mzansi Cymru Development
2011 ‘Torchbearers’ Showcase, (Writer & Director) Zip Zap Circus, Cape Town
2011 Flowers from Tunisia, Torch Theatre + Wales Tour
2011 Life on Robben Island (Writer & Director) – Unusual Stage School, Disability Arts Cymru + Valleys Kids collaboration: Mzansi Cymru, Glanfa Stage, WMC
2010 The Day Stanley Baker Died The Zulus Rapped on Llanwonno Mountain – (Writer & Director) Mzansi Cymru showcase, Soar Centre, Penygraig
2009 Operation Zulu – Mzansi Cymru showcase. Pop Factory, Porth
2009 The Magic Box Valleys Kids and Arts & Business Cymru promo video script
2009 Stairway To Heaven – On The Edge – tour.
2008 Operation Zulu/ Mzansi Cymru Project commission – Valleys Kids, Cultural Olympiad
2007 ‘Dream it, Build it ‘– Valleys Kids and Arts & Business Cymru promo video script
2007 ‘Reason to Believe’ – Sherman Cymru commission
2006 ‘Truth or Dare’ celebrating Aberdare – BBC Radio Wales
2005/6 ‘I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Shout’ winner of Writer’s Room Broken & Blue Award BBC Radio 3
2005 ‘If you can’t sing, stand at the back of the hall.’ – Plymouth Theatre Royal/York Theatre Royal & Unicorn Theatre, London
2004 ‘Flowers from Tunisia’ – Theatr y Byd, National Tour
2004 ‘For Ever’ – Adaptation of Short Story – Plymouth Theatre Royal
2004 ‘It was Twenty Years Ago Today’. BBC Radio Wales 60’
2003 ‘Wouldn’t it be Better if he Died in the End?’ BBC Radio 4
2002 ‘More than just a Game’ – Plymouth Theatre Royal
2002 ‘Angels Don’t Need Wings’ – Hijinx Theatre 21st Anniversary production, Sherman Theatre
2001 ‘Down the Docks and Up the Bay’ – BBC Radio Wales 30’
2000 The Mountain – BBC 2 Xcel – Documentary subject – L’Etape du Tour
2000 Publication of anthology of Three Plays by Seren
- On the Road Again
- The Best Years of Our Lives
- Cradle to the Grave
1998 – 2001 ‘Station Road’ – BBC Radio Wales Daily Soap scriptwriting (over 50 episodes) & storylining
1998 ‘King of the Mountains’ 90’ screenplay BBC Wales commissioned/unproduced
1996 ‘Cries Across the Tracks’ 55’ Radio 4
1997 ‘Cradle to the Grave’ Welsh College of Music and Drama.
1997 ‘Dangerous Acquaintances’ Hijinx Theatre, Wales & England Tour
1996 ‘Stairway to Heaven’, Hijinx Theatre, Wales & England Tour
1995 ‘Rainbow Chaser’ BBC 2 Wales TV
1994 ‘On the Road Again’, Hijinx Theatre, Wales & England Tour
1993 I was a Teenage Playboy, 30′ Radio wales
1992 There’s Only One Sizwe Bansi, 55′ Radio Wales
1991 The Valley of the Kings Pontypridd Community Play
1990 ‘The Best Years of Our Lives’, Made in Wales/Theatr Clwyd/Sherman
1988 ‘A Blow to Bute Street’, Sherman Theatre
1986 Duel at Twilight, Spectacle Theatre
1985 ‘Over the Wall and Back Again’, Writer & Director Made in Wales,
1990 ‘There’s Only One Siswe Bansi’ 55’ BBC Radio 4.
1995 ‘I Was a Teenage Playboy’ 30’