Simple Version:
I write most commonly in the dark comedy genre, always striving to find the drama in the comedy and the humor in the darkness.


Slightly more pretentious version:
To challenge, provoke and entertain. As a mission statement it’s pretty straightforward but also a neatly accurate encapsulation of what I wish to achieve as a playwright, based - as I feel it should be - on what I want to experience as an audience member. I believe in the audience being taken on a journey where they are as much taken out of their comfort zone as the characters they are watching. Where they feel the consequences of the story unfolding in front of them, as well as see and hear it. I want them to have strong questions and opinions both during and after the play. But most importantly, I want them to enjoy being taken on the ride, even if, like a rollercoaster passenger, there may be certain moments that they question if they really want to be sitting in that seat at all. When they step off at the end, perhaps a little bit woozy, I want them to feel a sense of adrenaline at the twists and turns they have just taken, to be playing it over again in their minds and, hopefully, to want to ride again.