I was born and raised in England and spent my childhood years making  feature films... the obnoxiousness of which is best chronicled here.

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Nowadays I live between NYC and London writing larger-than-life women who say what I wouldn't dare, usually through song.

 

Most recently I have been honoured as a Richard Rodgers Award Winner, Fellow of the Dramatist Guild, Winner of the the Eric H. Weinberger Librettist Award and Finalist for the Kleban Prize for Lyricism.

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I like to write rhythmic, breakneck-paced stories that surprise and thrill. I like to write trouble-makers, obsessives and women who refuse to shrink. I like the audacious, the facetious and the morally ambiguous. And I really like wordplay.

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Some other things: I was a member of the Writers Room for the BAFTA-Award-Winning TV series 'Skins', I am the Founder/Director of Spirit YPC, which under my direction has attracted over 150 Million online viewers to our MT performances. I am alum of the BMI Bookwriting Workshop, Professor of Playwriting at the Norwalk Conservatory, and I have an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU Tisch.

 

Also, I still harbour dreams of playing Orphan Annie, ideally in a version that's exclusively lip-synced. I fancy myself an employable-level lip-syncer.

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Read about my PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT, or LISTEN TO SONGS.