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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?

Screenplay translation

I’m currently 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’m working with Director/Producer/Writer Jonathan Musset of WaynaPitch to translate the original French dialogue into English (where appropriate) and lending a hand in polishing the plot and [...]

Welcome

Gorgeouos Boy Well hello there. Thanks for visiting my on-line home. Here you’ll find more or less everything there is to know about my work, life and interests. The site is work in progress, in perpetuity, so please come back and see what’s new whenever you can. I still have to add some details of my Graphic Design, Teaching, Writing, Acting, Translation and Photography work as well as a few links to other places on the web I think you should visit. I spend most of [...]

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 [...]