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Welcome

Thanks for visiting my virtual répertoire. Here you’ll find more or less everything there is to know about my work, life and interests. The site is work in perpetuity, so please come back and see what’s new whenever you’re procrastinating. I still have to add some details of my Graphic Design, Teaching, Writing and Acting work as well as a few links to other places on the web I think you should visit. If you’d like to get in touch [...]

Lunchbox Theatrical Productions

Recently completed this new responsive site for LTP… a big improvement on the old one!

Book ‘jackets’

Recently finished these four kindle covers for Carol Drinkwater. They should be appearring on amazon.com very soon.

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Giving Tree

A completely bilingual website for a completely bilingual organisation – launched yesterday. www.givingtree.fr

Dirty Dancing Asia

Another website completed this week: www.dirtydancingasia.com

Carol Drinkwater

Recently finished this site for Carol Drinkwater, author, actress and filmmaker. Please go and have a wander around the site … www.caroldrinkwater.com

Artiste voix off

Si vous cherchez un acteur ou comédien anglais pour votre enregistrement – ne plus cherchez ! Vous m’avez trouvé. Je suis disponible à tout moment pour vos enregistrements voix-off. Étant originaire de Somerset en Angleterre, l’anglais est ma langue maternelle. Je peux vous offrir plusieurs accents anglais, des styles de chic au paysan et de [...]

The Sitcom Trials

CREDIT: Writer & Performer

Where to buy

Thought I should maybe take a moment to point out precisely where you might be able to pick up a fresh-smelling copy of one of my books. Amazon – here’s you’ll find all 6 titles, 3 printed and 3 for Kindle lulu.com – this is the digital publishing service I use to get my books [...]

Globe Screenplay

I’ve just finished working on a very exciting, and original, project. It is a screenplay for a bilingual film which is due to be shot this Spring in Nantes. I’ve been working with Director [...]

Voice overs

Thanks to being one of the few self-employed native British-English speakers in Strasbourg I have recently grasped the opportunity to develop a sideline in providing voice-overs (voix-off) on a number of local televisual productions. Whether this will go anywhere remains to be seen – however given I’ve also recently played in a theatrical production with [...]

12 Knight Street Motors

This is the second in a series of three Shakespearean Sitcom Trials that I have published to the Kindle ebook format on Amazon. Like Hamlet, Boy Reporter, this title also won the audience vote during the trials season in 2004.

Houppz!

Houppz Website Just finished this site for local theatre producers Houppz! It showcases their past two productions and aims to be a springboard to promoting the success of the next. [...]

Hamlet, Boy Reporter

Hamlet, Boy Reporter I’ve finally worked out how to publish an eBook! This is the first in a series of short Shakespearean scripts for the Sitcom Trials. It won the audience vote three times on it’s performance in London in 2004. So – if you have a Kindle – why not have a read?

Garulfo

The comic-book scene in France is like nothing anywhere else in the world. Here it is dubbed The Ninth Art, and enjoys book sales comparable to that of the national literary market. While in the UK and America our knowledge of Franco-Belgian comics may extend only as far as Asterix and Tintin, the fact is there are thousands upon thousand of titles covering a whole range of genres and sub-genres for [...]

You call this a Nativity?

The trouble with traditional Nativity plays is they tend to be rather dull. Everyone knows the story, there are no surprises, plot-twists or jokes – which hardly makes for a very Merry Christmas! What’s needed is a bit of silliness, a few gags and some character comedy – all of which you’ll find right here between these pages. Nine entertaining plays featuring Mary, Joseph, The Three Kings, Scrooge, Santa, Rudolph, [...]

Portraits

Strasbourg Comics Festival

Strasbourg comic festival I’ve been an active member of the association behind Strasbourg’s annual comics festival since 2009, Alsace Bande Dessinée, offering my services as Web-master and translator. The Strasbulles [festival] website is a forever mutating beast of multilingual news content, images and information.

The Ice Factor

York’s Outdoor ice rink returns this year, this time with a new website. This year site user can book their tickets without leaving the domain, smartphone or iPhones users are treated to their own user-friendly interface and iPad users don’t need to worry about flash errors. For effect there’s some snow falling down the screen [...]

Kate Mosse

I’ve been supporting the web presence of Kate Mosse (the author) for the past few years. The lastest project, completed in January this year was the integration of Kate’s three legacy sites into one all-encompassing web presence. Intended to coincide with the paperback release of The Winter Ghosts, the site features a slide-show enabled theme-switcher, [...]

Sitcoms

Featuring winning scripts from THE SITCOM TRIALS. This collection includes scripts that were performed during the 2004 and 2006 seasons of the ‘Trials’, a Sitcom pilot developed for TV with stand-up comedian and comic author Marc Blake, as well as a crop of other as-yet unperformed Sitcoms.

A Little Bit of Chaos

French/English Bilingual Theatre: Duncan McBryde tries to persuade his android butler to commit muder. “With disorder and chaos comes danger, and with and comes excitement!”

Up and Running

CREDITS: Writer & Director

News: Association Babelle

Recent news shows that my work earlier in the year for Association Babelle has paid dividends – and the team there are now gearing up to realise their dream of opening a Hammam (Spa) in central Strasbourg. The location of the Spa is to be the Palais des Fêtes – an old brasserie and architectural [...]

Market research

I am currently running online market-research surveys for two Strasbourg based associations: The Association Babelle is investigating the viability of opening a ‘Hammam’ in Strasbourg (a spa effectively) The Giving Tree is proposing to open an English-French bilingual crèche (bilingual survey) If you have time, and live locally, I’m sure they’d appreciate your participation. Cette [...]

Case study: “we need a new website”

Client turnover: 100m USD Age of business: 150+ years Website built: 4 years prior to project Last updated: 6 months prior to project This project unfolded in the way most do for me, the client initially being driven by the need to refresh a tired and out of date website. However, it immediately became clear [...]