‘A massive talent’
The Times

Books
Undercurrent (2022), The Vanishing Hours (2019), The Wellspring: Conversations with David Owen Norris (2018), Turning For Home (2018), Five Rivers Met On A Wooded Plain (2016), To Bodies Gone: The Theatre Of Peter Gill (2014)

Plays
Going Out Out (HOME Manchester, 2025), The Band Back Together (Arcola Theatre and tour, 2024), We Started To Sing (Arcola Theatre, 2022), The Queen of the Isle of Wight (BBC Radio 4, 2021), Song and Dance (BBC Radio 4, 2019), Nightfall (Bridge Theatre, 2018), Want (National Theatre Connections, 2018), While We’re Here (Up In Arms, Bush Theatre and tour, then BBC Radio 4, 2017-18), Echo’s End (Salisbury Playhouse, 2017), Eventide (Up In Arms, Arcola and tour, 2015), Every You Every Me (Salisbury Playhouse and tour, 2015 then Oxford Playhouse, Reading Rep and tour, 2017), Visitors (Up In Arms, Arcola, Bush Theatre and tour, 2014-15, then Watermill Theatre, 2023), Fear Of Music (Up In Arms/Out of Joint, 2012-13), At First Sight (Up In Arms, tour then Latitude Festival, 2011).

Adaptations and Collaborations
Our Public House (music by Jonathan Walton; DASH Arts and tour, 2026), The Last Ship (music by Sting; Carre Amsterdam, Seine Musicale Paris, Glasshouse Brisbane, Metropolitan Opera New York, 2026), Second Best (adapted from the novel by David Foenkinos, Riverside Studios, 2025), A Stranger Comes To Town (music by Ailie Robertson; An Tobar and Mull Theatres and tour, 2023-24), The Wellspring (co-written with David Owen Norris, Royal and Derngate and tour, 2022), Blood Wedding (after Lorca, LAMDA, 2019 then Up In Arms & Wiltshire Creative, 2020), The Remains of the Day (adapted from the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, Out of Joint, Royal & Derngate and tour, 2019).
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