Tony’s work for the stage includes THE BLUETHROAT, (shortlisted for the Peggy Ramsay award), MESSAGE FROM NEPTUNE, THE ANATOMIST, and BENTWATER ROADS. He has also written radio drama for both Radio 3 and Radio 4. Plays include BLACK VELVET, (shortlisted for the Richard Imison Memorial Award for best newcomer to radio), BARKING, THE BALLAD OF BILLY RAINBOW, and TANGO SENSATIONS with Juliet Stevenson. His adaptation of NEW GRUB STREET for Radio 4 starred Harold Pinter as the narrator. His television work includes WHERE THE HEART IT and NIGHT AND DAY, both for Granada. He has also published children’s fiction and a handbook on language skills. Tony lives in Norfolk and teaches regularly on the University of East Anglia’s MA in Scriptwriting and is one of the founder members of Playwrights East.
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TV credits
GRANADA – THE STREET UNITED
Storyline for episode for new Jimmy McGovern series
WHERE THE HEART IS – Episode for 2001 series Opening episode for 2002 series
NIGHT AND DAY – 12 episodes for ITV soap
ONE WAY STREET – Original series in development
Film credits
CARRION’S WAKE – Further draft of horror screenplay from original idea by Matthew Sangar (producer Dan Bender).THE BLUETHROAT – Feature adaptation of play for Screen East (2004)
Radio credits
NEW GRUB STREET – 3-part adaptation for Radio 4 of the novel by George Gissing
TANGO SENSATIONS – 60′ Saturday Afternoon Play Radio 4
BLACK VELVET – Radio 4 – shortlisted for Richard Imison Memorial Award
BARKING – Radio 3
WALTON’S PIKE – Radio 4
THE COMPLEAT ANGLER – by Izaak Walton – Abridgement for R4
broadcast Oct 97. 2 hr version issued on cassette by BBC Worldwide (1997)
Theatre credits
RIVER LANE – Community theatre project, commissioned by Eastern Angles 2014.
THE LONG LIFE & GREAT GOOD FORTUNE OF JOHN
CLARE – Based on the life of the poet John Clare, commissioned by Eastern Angles, toured spring 2013 then had second tour in autumn 2013, including performances at London’s Pleasance
Theatre
BENTWATER ROADS – Eastern Angles
THE ANATOMIST – Eastern Angles toured Norfolk (Summer 2006) & also
played at the Gatehouse Theatre, Highgate, London
ONE DAY IN MAY – Multi-media play for One Day In May Group
THE BLUETHROAT – Commissioned by Eastern Angles Theatre Company, toured the East of England for three months in Spring 1998.
MESSAGE FROM NEPTUNE – Eastern Angles Theatre Company. Autumn tour 1999.
