Recent Entries

• movie making, writing, endings.

  April 4, 2013

  I am currently writing a movie. It's a musical, but the music is not my own, i've just been arranging old songs from one of my favourite bands as a kid. It's fun and we start recording the soundtrack in May, and hopefully filming by then too. I'm also trying to wrote a play, some…

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• New Year, new challenges

  January 9, 2013

  I am very excited about 2013. This year, i am co-producing and hosting another 'Stars in their Eyes' where we pay homage to the great 80s/90s tv show with local talent and raise loads for local charities. I am writing and directing a movie, and also co-arranging the score, using hits from one of ...

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• finding an address

  August 14, 2012

  I am currently looking at starting my next dramatic project, a stage adaptation of a movie. I have been trying to find a useful contact address for the screenwriter, but can only get hold of agencies and i know how they can be about passing on information sometimes. I'm not looking to make millio...

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• Jubilee Jubilance

  June 3, 2012

  The Queen celebrates 60 years as Monarch this week. And we get a couple of days off to join in! yay! There has been plenty of excitement and hype, i've been a bit busy to notice, but if i lived anywhere near London i would wave my flag i'm sure.  However they had awful weather, and…

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• looking up

  March 20, 2012

  Things are indeed looking up. I have a business starting up which is beginning to do well, in video production and drama. I have a production i am directing locally but it's a professional show so i get paid, and i get to do something that hasn't been done already. First couple of rehearsals have...

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• It’s a new dawn…

  February 27, 2012

  It's a new year. I haven't done anything constructive since being part of the famous Edinburgh Festival Fringe last August. I worked over Christmas, i earned. I am setting up a business, and we are starting to put together potential work plans. But there likely won't be any money coming on throug...

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• i have discovered i am not interesting

  February 15, 2012

  I find things interesting. i have even put some of them here on OD, but having flicked through many, i don't find myself interesting. I miss a lot of things in life. My best friend, who died over 7 years ago.  My girlfriend, who lives over 5 hours away. My friends, who i am as…

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• How pantomime rehearsals work

  November 26, 2011

  This week we get crazy. The show is being set up on stage and by the weekend we will have opening night. Here's how it works, in case you're interested: We had a week of rehearsals, putting the actors, dancers and kids through their paces so they now know the basics of the show, and…

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• so it ends, so it begins.

  October 24, 2011

  Today the cast of SHHH met up and had a little reunion dinner, and we handed out cheques. We are pretty pleased that we could make cheques out at all, as most shows leave the famous Edinburgh Fringe Festival having lost money. In fact thousands of pounds. So yeah! Not as delighted with the cast&h...

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