Career
Born in 1966 in Staffordshire, England, he trained at Goldsmith"s College, University of London, gaining an honours degree in music In 1990 he was chosen by Sir Cameron Mackintosh to be one of 12 writers to study with Stephen Sondheim during the latter"s year-long tenure at Oxford University as the Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre. In 1997, he appeared, together with Shaun McKenna, on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 2"s In Company With Sondheim in an edition devoted to Maddie.