CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT

Gay’s the Word bookshop musical - co-written with Fin Henderson, Tom Rasmussen & Adam Zmith

-inspired by the 1984 ‘Operation Tiger’ raids & grassroots campaign to defend LGBT books

-2024: Being Human Festival, initial concept sharing

-2024: Development grant from University of London, School of Advanced Study

Demo songs & videos

The Promise - created with director Tian Brown-Sampson

-drawn from experiences of Home Office ‘Windrush’ scandal survivors & the circular histories of Empire

-2025: R&D presentation in Kings Cultures’s ‘Lost & Found’ season, Kings College London

-2024: Creative Collaboration Seed Fund, with Shaila Pal and the Windrush Justice Clinic at the Dickson Poon School of Law, Kings College London

-2018: Hearst Fellowship at American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA

PREVIOUS WORK

Echoes Through Time: The Story of Care - commissioned by Coram

-drawn from archives of The Foundling Hospital; co-created with director Vicky Moran

-2024: semi-staged presentation with care-experienced cast, Hoxton Hall

-download the script & resource pack here

Live to Tell: (a proposal for) The Madonna Jukebox Musical

-2023: Off-West End tour, PlayWell Productions (trailer)

★★★★ “at the heart of his work is a deeper, richer truth” (Musical Theatre Review)

-2021: Battersea Arts Centre & LIVR, digital theatre edition

-2021: Artist Residency, artsdepot, London

-2019: Live Draft, The Yard Theatre, London (blog post)

-2019: work in progress, Pulse Festival, Ipswich

Leonardo - opera libretto, score by Alex Mills

-2019: production, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Feature on the opera: ‘The men whom Leonardo da Vinci loved’ (BBC Culture)

Listen to Brian & Alex interviewed: BBC Radio 3 Music Matters (9 Nov 2019)

Inhibitors

-2019: staged reading, Park Theatre, London

We Wait in Joyful Hope

- 2016: production, Theatre 503, London

★★★★  "a great damn show from top to bottom" (London City Nights)

★★★★  "There is love, warmth, steel and perseverance in equal measure" (LiveTheatreUK)

★★★★1⁄2 "an insightful representation of the human heart" (Playhouse Pickings)

5 OffWestEnd Nominations, including BEST NEW PLAY

Stranger Here

- 2016: workshop with Gameshow, Pleasance Theatre, London

- 2011: workshop, High Tide Festival Genesis LAB, London

It Gets Better

Mauve New World commission, Oval House/Pink Fringe

- 2012: workshop, Oval House (London) / The Nightingale (Brighton)

Three Days in the Tomb

Third Prize, Catholic University National Playwriting Competition

- 2005: workshop, Lynx Ensemble Theatre, NYC

Retrospect

First Prize, International Student Playscript Competition - Final Judge: Alan Ayckbourn

- 2003: reading, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, NYC

- 2002: production, OUDS New Writing Festival, Oxford, UK

DEVISED WORK

Our Fathers

devised with Babakas

- 2013: production, Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe

- 2014-15: UK/International Tour

★★★★  "a young, international company with both talent and great ideas" (Daily Telegraph)

★★★★  "a bright, funny, moving hour" (Time Out)

★★★★  "an effervescent show... mature, inventive and touching" (Exeunt Magazine)

Rip Me Open

devised with Desiree Burch, Michael Cyril Creighton & Kyle Jarrow

-2006: production, HOT Festival, Dixon Place NYC

-2006: production, Galapagos Performance Space, NYC

-2005: reading, Ars Nova, NYC

SHORT PLAYS

‘Special Magic’

part of HIV Voices

- 2017: production, Pleasance Theatre, Islington

'Poles for UKIP'

part of EleXion by the 503Five

- 2015: production, Theatre 503, London

'Cornered'

adapted from The Jolly Corner by Henry James

- 2014: workshop, Orange Tree Theatre Writers' Collective, London

'Top Bunk'

- 2013: Rapid Writer Response, Theatre 503, London

'Status'

Finalist, 2012 Heideman Award, Actors Theatre of Louisville