Career
An alumnus of Loreto College - Moss Side, City Life Magazine, The Hacienda, Hippos Nightclub Middleton and Warrington Collegiate Institute, he created and wrote all 21 episodes of the British Broadcasting Corporation television series Burn lieutenant,directing the last 3, and he wrote the Channel 4 television film Legless, which he also directed. He wrote the film Nowhere Boy, about a young John Lennon - directed by Sam Taylor Wood, starring Aaron Johnson. The film was nominated for a Bafta and Biffa.
He was nominated for a Biffa for best Screenplay.
He most recently wrote the screenplay for "The Look of Love" - a film about the famous British pornographer Paul Raymond, directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Steve Coogan which premiered in Sundance FF 2013 and Berlin FF 2013.
