Career
He has written several other plays and has directed episodes of the television soap operas Brookside and Emmerdale Farm. He was artistic director of the Bubble Theatre Company from 1979 to 1984, during which time he created Return to the Forbidden Planet. From 1997-2014 he was the artistic director of the Queen"s Theatre, Hornchurch.
On 17 September 2014, it was announced that he was stepping down from the position to focus on his writing.
