Personal Details

During my school years, which could now be considered to be in the Dark Ages, I loved English lessons and excelled at writing compositions, now known as essays! I was always top of the class in this subject but absolutely pathetic at Maths, but one does not need to be a mathematician to write! Thank heavens!

I had always wanted to be a writer but it wasn’t until the very late 1970s that I suddenly realised that if I wanted to be a writer I should do something about it. In all fairness, I hadn’t had much time to write because in the sixties I gave birth to twins, followed, three years later, by another child… Then I joined a local amateur dramatic company in Warrington to get me out of the house. I was given a very small part in “Becket” - a French whore with no speeches to learn). I then played a maid in Noel Coward’s “Hay Fever”. I was hooked! I enjoyed myself, learned a lot and began to write small sketches for the group. But it wasn’t until I moved to Milton Keynes that I really started to write seriously.

My first pieces of work were sketches for the local WI – and don’t laugh, but the WI is a great institution which gives lots of ladies new roads to walk down. Then, working for the Milton Keynes Development Corporation I started to write for the magazine. My next step was writing the libretto and scripts for two musicals which were performed in a Luton high school and several other schools through the region. They went down so well that I started up my own amdram group in Milton Keynes and begin to write comedy scripts. They are my forte, although I have written several serious plays as well which are based on Hamlet and Macbeth.

It took me several years to wonder whether I should try to get my work published so I looked on the Internet, found a publisher and was taken on immediately and my work sold, and, apparently, I am it’s best selling writer! Sorry – don’t mean to brag!

I recently searched the Internet for another outlet for my new work and am pleased and proud to say that New Theatre Productions have taken me on!

Over my writing years I am constantly told “Oh, I’ve always wanted to write “ and my answer is, “so start writing!”

My list of plays is long and varied but I do tend to write more comedy than tragedy! There is nothing more exciting for me than to hear the laughter and applause from a happy audience and a buoyant cast and it’s my intention to keep on writing until the big boy in the sky calls me in to write for him!