Personal Details

Work Sought:

With the exception of musicals and pantomimes, he has written in almost every genre including revue stretches and very short plays (10 -15 minutes) and is keen to work with any company in the UK. As a number of Ken's plays are historically slanted with modern echoes he wishes to contact companies with similar views.

Following his involvement in amateur theatre in East London and a short period of training at Webber Douglas School Academy for Drama where he decided the professional actors' life was not for him, Ken wrote his first full length play, THE IRON VOICE. This was subsequently produced and published. Many one act and occasional full length plays followed winning several awards in festivals in the UK. During this time he managed an amateur group in East London; acting in and directing his own and other playwright's work plus working with local amateur groups and two South London Little Theatre Clubs. He entered the field of drama documentary in 1974 by scripting and directing a community play on the re-siting and eventual destruction of the Crystal Palace in Sydenham. Of his present out put 22 plays have been produced and 7 published. In addition there has been the experience of the obligatory 'clutch' of scripts for live TV plus a couple of short radio play awards. Now being resident in Normandy, has inspired THAT MAN MELMOTH and THE ZOLA AFFAIR. A double bill of plays contrasting Oscar Wilde's brief sojourn near Dieppe after his release from prison with Emile Zola's stand for Captain Dreyfus, resulting in his exile to England.