Scripts available to read on request — please get in touch via the Contact page.
In Development
FFS: TV series. A lonely, late-career tabloid columnist can’t escape what she can only describe as hell: the overpowering stench of — surely not — love. Or worse — is that — urgh — God? A dark comedy about our media culture, friendship and the wanting uncool things that we can’t let ourselves want.
One Bad Apple: What if women knew what their men were like in the workplace? A novel about corporate abuse, complicity and wilful blindness.
Bottom Feeders: a play about cowards, in its very early stages.
The Unloved: TV drama pilot. In a small city, a failing journalist makes a pact with an imprisoned internet ‘troll’ who holds too many secrets, not only to boost her career, but to find relief from her own troll-like tendencies. Longlist, Thousand Films competition, 2019. Highly placed, C21/Script Angel International Drama Pilot Competition, 2017.
Produced Work
Glue — short film, due for release in 2026. Director: Isabelle Larché. Two sisters, 18 and 22, reunite for Christmas after their parents’ death. Can they find their old friendship and face the future together?
Skin in the Game — New Wimbledon Theatre, London, November 2021. Inaugural Studio Season Premiere. Four stars. Developed through a Writer’s Residency at Pitlochry Festival Theatre, 2019 and a script-in-hand, Rondo Theatre, Bath, March 2020. Dark climate comedy, full length.
It’s 2050. Not so far…. and Greta Thunberg’s warnings came true. The UK is now The Great Islands, there’s a curfew and one TV channel — but we all adore the host, so that’s fine. Let’s have a game show that puts “Mummy Nature” back where she belongs. That’ll make it all ok… Four-star fringe-produced play about hand-wringing, power and whether we’re truly into saving the planet as much as we think we are. Available for screen adaptation and further stage productions.
Box — Brighton University, October 2018 (R&D). A quantum physics play that wrong-foots you and empowers the audience. “Much more playful than Stoppard; you empowered the audience.” “It made me think of Caryl Churchill.” “A playground full of swings!”
Glitter Knickers — Rondo Theatre, Bath, March 2016. A status-anxiety mum’s redemptive afterlife journey as a Sindy doll, accompanied by a moody, half-naked destruction god. Five star audience response: “A tour de force in writing and performance.” “Funny, astute, painful and crammed full of face-achingly good one-liners.” “Gill Kirk is a consummate storyteller. It was a joy.”
A Bit of a Song & Dance — Tobacco Factory, Bristol, July 2014 and seed commission from Theatre Royal Bath’s Ustinov. On the eve of his retirement, Martin, a 1950s Eagle comic enthusiast has a niggling sense that something’s not right. That handsome plumber lunching his wife, the actuaries singing in the basement about his pension — and of course, the evil Mekon is on the prowl again. A “Potteresque, madcap comedy, with a lot of pathos”.
Passion — VAULT Festival, London, March 2014. Tobacco Factory, Bristol 2013. Arches Glasgow, 2015. Aberdeen Dance Live, 2015. Traumatised Edan’s back from Afghanistan and at a rave – and so are you. They’re hunting an escape. Just what kind of escape will become all too clear. “Atmospheric and unique. An eye-opening experience.” — Metro. “An unforgettable production.” — New Current.
Away With The Fairies – Alma Tavern Theatre, Bristol, 2012. Commissioned by Broohas Theatre Company. Stanley and Isobel are two strong-willed women in their 50s. Each relies unwittingly on their respective nigglesome loved ones: a 30 year old accountant and… a troll. Their paths all cross when Isobel commissions a sculpture to be made, ostensibly to prevent the troll from inheriting her farm. His reaction is full of mischief…
Water’s Not So Thick — Rondo Theatre, Bath, June 2011. A clinging upper-class mother uses everything in her arsenal to prevent her son’s wedding. A squirmingly dark comedy that twists to tragedy. “Acutely observed, sharp as tacks, plenty of wit and humour.”
It’s All One – commission for 25 community and youth performers, Shakespeare Unplugged Festival, egg theatre, Theatre Royal Bath, 2011. a family show to rid you all of any Shakespeare-language related fear.
Everyone Loves A Story – A surreal world (before Black Mirror…) where the tables are turned on reality TV watchers with terrifying consequence. Short play commissioned as part of the Ustinov (Theatre Royal Bath)’s ‘Push’, 2010.
Consultancy Credits
The Contestant — feature documentary. Narrative Consultant. Directed by Clair Titley, produced by Misfits Entertainment. Available on Hulu / Disney+ and BBC iPlayer.
Industry Recognition
- Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook — contributor, 2023-2027 editions
- New Wimbledon Theatre — Inaugural Studio Season Premiere, Skin in the Game, 2021
- Pitlochry Festival Theatre — Writer’s Residency, 2019
- Peggy Ramsay Foundation — 2019, 2013
- Society of Authors 2019
- BBC Writersroom Drama Script Room — top 3%, 2017-18
- C21/Script Angel International Drama Pilot Competition — highly placed, 2017
- Old Vic New Voices, 2016
- Soho Theatre — Verity Bargate Award finalist, 2015
- BBC Writersroom Script Room 10 — top 8% from 3,200 entries, 2015-16
- Screen Yorkshire Triangle — film talent development scheme, 2014
- Channel 4 4Screenwriting — one of 12 writers selected from 3,200, 2012
Is it any good? Do people enjoy the work? Working with me? Both? Let’s see.
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