How to be a girl and Five Beaches are my most well-known plays as they’ve both been performed a lot, in some amazing venues.

All of my plays were published by Resources 4 Drama (sadly this publisher closed just prior to the pandemic). R4D supplied plays to schools – primarily drama students taking their GCSEs. I adored working with Clive Hulme – the man behind it. He was so supportive about my work, and active on social media, and promoted my one acts all over the internet. Subsequently I was pretty much always in his best seller lists. At one time I had three plays in his top ten!

My first play, The Girl in the Hood, was taken up by R4D after my novel came out. I’d been invited to speak at festivals about my book – but I got bored of reading excerpts so I started writing ‘epic’ poetry. Then I adapted one of those poems into a three-hander, and R4D took it up as a GCSE piece.

I still get emails from teachers trying to track down copies of my plays and to ask if they can perform them. That brings me great joy. It’s so easy to slip through the cracks when you’re making creative works and never to be seen again!

Following that, as well as the three above, R4D published Genghis (performed at New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth), The Devil’s Rope (WW1), and Brotherly Love (macabre retelling Hanzel and Gretel).

I loved getting the royalty cheques for all of those!