STAGE
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I am London-based UK consultant for the Bleecker Street Theater and Green Room venues in New York and general & PR manager of production/touring company The Green Room Presents. I will be promoting various shows at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival including comedian/writer Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science! At last year's Edinburgh Fringe, I staged Janey Godley's Chat Show for 25 days with 67 guests. Also in 2007, I staged the four-hour Malcolm Hardee Charity Cabaret Show at the Hackney Empire, London, and, in 2006, I staged the five-hour Malcolm Hardee Memorial Show

DVDs
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I am creative advisor and production manager for Gangster Videos. Their next DVD Jimmy White - The One and Only is released in July. Upcoming new 2008 projects feature Ricky Grover, Hurricane Higgins, Larry Holmes, Jake La Motta, Carlton Leach, Mike Tyson and Jimmy White. Last year, Gangster Videos' DVD documentaries included Roy Shaw - Fight School and Joe Egan with The Toughest Men on The Planet... and they released DVD compilation The Laid Bare Collection. Since Gangster Videos began in 2002, I have advised on and production managed 44 UK titles and 8 US titles for them.

TV PROGRAMMES
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Last year, I production managed a series of Underground Boxing events filmed by Gangster Videos and transmitted on the TWC Fight channel; Gangster Videos' footage was also extensively used in the Lawless Britain series on Bravo and has been sold to BBC TV, Channel Five and Sky News. In the last few years, I've also researched a TCM documentary The A-Z of Crime Movies, was script consultant on a TCM documentary The First 100 Years of The Western, a consultant on promo/script/style elements within the Granada/ITV series This Morning and gave an alleged 'script masterclass' to the production team of Trisha. My credits in various production capacities include Tiswas, Game For a Laugh, Surprise Surprise, The Last Resort With Jonathan Ross as well as Jools Holland's The Happening, The Last Laugh with Jerry Sadowitz, Prove It (with Chris Tarrant), Jack Dee's Saturday Night and, well, you get the general idea......comedy, punters & jollity. I've also produced a couple of Gong Show style pilots.

TV PROMOS & CORPORATES
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I've written, produced and directed promo trailers for all the major ITV companies and many others in places as diverse as Amsterdam, Dublin and Prague as well as in languages I didn't understand (Czech, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish). Oh and I've also produced-directed multi-language corporates in England, Wales and the Czech Republic.

PRINT
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I edited and advised on Handstands in the Dark, the non-humorous, pre-showbiz autobiography of Janey Godley, a No 3 hardback bestseller in 2005 and a UK Top Ten paperback bestseller in 2006. I have also written for various magazines, newspapers and partworks including Halls of Horror, House of Hammer, The Independent newspaper, The International Times, Mensa Magazine, The Movie, Screen International and Starburst. Previous books include Sit-Down Comedy, an anthology of specially-commissioned writing by 19 British and Irish stand-ups; I Stole Freddie Mercury's Birthday Cake, the autobiography of Malcolm Hardee; and I contributed three chapters to Anatomy of The Movies (other chapter contributors included Martin Scorsese and Donald Sutherland). Click for reviews.

NEW MEDIA
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I built and webmaster sites for, among others, London-based comedian Ricky Grover, Cardiff-based comedy scriptwriter Nigel Crowle, Scots-based comedians Janey Godley & Ian Watt and a tribute site for the late comedian Malcolm Hardee. I also built and webmaster sales websites for Gangster Videos, the soft-core DVD company Laid Bare, the wedding site I'm Getting Married and Milan-based VW dealer Elettrofficina s.n.c.. I designed & webmastered the original Cass Pennant website and a now defunct website for imprisoned artists called ConArtists. I wrote comedy reviews from the Edinburgh Fringe for the chortle.co.uk website, 2004-2006 plus a 2005 Fringe blog and a Fringe feature for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.

OTHER INTERESTS
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I've holidayed in Albania, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Kosovo, Laos, Lebanon, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Russia, Serbia, Siberia, Tibet, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. I have eclectic interests....In music, I like Bach, Just Jack, Randy Newman, Stereophonics and Kurt Weill. In writing, George Eliot, James Joyce, Richard Matheson, George Orwell and Terry Southern. My favourite films include Fight Club, It's a Wonderful Life, Once Upon a Time in The West, Slaughterhouse Five and The Wild Bunch. Television: Quatermass and The Pit (1958-1959), Talking to a Stranger (1966), The Cops (1998-2000) and Doctor Who (2005-2008).

FINALLY!

I have also worked for BBC Ceefax. done a little bit of radio (promos and programme) and written questions for a Basque-language children's TV gameshow. I like new projects and the unexpected.