I will be joining the glorious drag queen Lana Lamont for a guest slot to celebrate her birthday as part of a night of comedy, drag, great music and special guest performances.

Other guests include poet Charlotte Oliver, drag queen Marlaine Desmond DelaRosa and musician and singer Oriana Phil Towart.

The Cask and Keg, Cambridge Terrace, Scarborough YO11 2LQ at 8 pm on Saturday 28 March 2026.
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Tickets £8, including a free drink, available here.

My monologue, The best lovers are good with their hands, will be part of The Scarborough Playwrights’ Room Showcase, an evening of groundbreaking homegrown writing from a range of voices, including monologues, short plays, and scenes from larger plays, all written in and around Scarborough.

This showcase features writing from eight local writers, including wild comedy, mysterious drama, and moving monologues. Through the show, you'll see snapshots of wider works, some published, some entirely new. This show gives you the opportunity to directly support local creatives, and maybe even get involved yourself!
 
All writing in the show has been developed and/or supported by local theatre creatives at the Scarborough Playwrights’ Room, a local writing group hosted by the SJT and run by Alfie Howle.

The best lovers are good with their hands, published in Dancing in Heaven, tells the story of a young gay man who only finds out that he is HIV-positive when he meets a BSL interpreter in hospital.

The performance is on 6 May at The McCarthy at the Stephen Joseph Theatre. Tickets are free and can be booked at the theatre and online.

See, I knew that would attract your attention. I'm working on a book with the working title 'Breasting Boobily', and it's about boobies.​

Think Vagina Monologues but a bit higher up. People born with boobies and who love them or hate them. People who breastfeed for days, months or years. People born without boobies who get boobies for whatever reason. People born with boobies who have them taken away, also for whatever reason. People who have their boobies made bigger or smaller – for whatever reason. People with big boobies. People with little boobies. People with different sized boobies.

I have never typed the word boobies this often before – blame Steve ‘The Hair’ Harrington in Stranger Things.

Like Dancing in Heaven, this will be a collection of monologues that sit between fact and fiction. Most, if not all, of the pieces will be a mix of a number of different people’s stories and will be fully anonymised. I think it will be funny and sad and silly and bittersweet, and I’m hoping it will make a great performance too.
I’m looking for people’s stories – straight people, queer people, older people, younger people. Performance stories. Everyday stories. Stories that everyone knows and stories that haven’t ever been told before.

Contact me using my contact form or on Bluesky, Facebook or Instagram. I’d love to hear your story.

PS – ‘Breasting Boobily’ comes from a parody of how some male authors write their female characters. The phrase was first posted by Tumblr user scottbaiowulf in December 2016:

​“Cassandra woke up to the rays of the sun streaming through the slats on her blinds, cascading over her naked chest. She stretched, her breasts lifting with her arms as she greeted the sun. She rolled out of bed and put on a shirt, her nipples prominently showing through the thin fabric. She breasted boobily to the stairs, and titted downwards.”

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