In 1992 I won a place in the Contact Young Playwright’s Festival with my first completed writing project, Whoops! I’m a Linen Porter, a comedy based on my experience of working in a hotel. The play was produced and performed at the Contact Theatre in Manchester.
In 1994 I
completed my second writing project, Bellybutton Babies, a full-length
screenplay. I sold an option on this to
Persona Film Development.
The
connection with Persona led to my writing scripts for two animated children’s
series, The Blobs and Fix & Foxi, for Siriol Multimedia. The episode I wrote for Fix & Foxi was
used by Siriol to represent them at an animation festival and also led to my
being approached by Ravensburger who asked me to work with them directly on
that series. I wrote 13 episodes for
series 1 and 8 episodes for series 2.
