Original Plays
Written 2010-2025
These are my favourite pieces which are currenlty getting a refresh and avliable for production in 2025/2026

MUD
MUD is a deeply ambitious and emotionally charged World War I drama that blends fictional storytelling with historical authenticity. Told through the interwoven fates of young recruits, grieving families, and estranged lovers, the play is a reverent memorial to the generation lost in the trenches. Anchored by a brutal realism and sincere human warmth.​
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MUD is a heartfelt, harrowing, and deeply humane play that honours the legacy of WWI with a unique blend of narrative intimacy and historical reflection. With deft handling, it can be both a tribute and a warning. Powerful, poetic, and painfully relevant. A true war epic on the stage.
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Originally written in 2011 and titled Known Unto God. It was toured across the south of England and performed in London's Diorama Theatre as well as a workshop at Chichester University.
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MUD the play will be available for schools and production from 2025.
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Printed copies of the play will be available November 2025 through online retailers.
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Please contact me directly if you are interested in producing this play for theatre or developing for film / television / Radio
I am also available for school workshops to discuss the process of writing and the history and my R&D trip to Ypres of which inspired the play.

Happy Pants
Happy Pants is a no-filter, booze-fuelled rom-com for the stage that blends millennial chaos with raw honesty, undercutting its farcical veneer with moments of heartbreak and vulnerability. Set in London’s messy flats, grim clinics, and the ever-reliable pub, this script reads like a lost sitcom pilot turned stage play - one that’s as crude as it is unexpectedly sweet.
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​It is a brash, heartfelt, and sometimes completely unhinged comedy. Underneath the dick jokes and joint smoke is a surprising meditation on love, miscommunication, and mortality. With rather refinement and talented director, it really could become a cult favourite ... on the fringe theatre circuit!
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Originally written in Brighton, UK by Rich Staplehurst and best friend Victoria Townson over a drunken weekend sat ON Rich's bed (get your mind out the gutter, perverts) drinking bottles of red wine. A labour of love, nostalgia and storytelling. It is a autobiographical as much as it is made up. Which bits, you decide.
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For teens and adults only. Or REALLY grown up kids.
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Printed copies of the play will be available November 2025 through online retailers.
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Please contact me directly (not Victoria, she's probably drunk) if you are interested in producing this play for theatre or developing for film / television / Radio​​
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A Lonley Planet
A Lonely Planet is a gripping, emotionally raw two-hander that sharply dissects trauma, memory, and vengeance within the confined, grimy walls of a dilapidated garage. Set in a post-riot, urban British landscape, the play explores the reunion of estranged brothers Mick and Lenny as they navigate the haunting legacy of their past and the man they believe ruined it.
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A Lonely Planet is a disturbing, darkly funny, and painfully personal piece of theatre. It crackles with unresolved tension and paints a vivid portrait of brotherhood bruised by neglect, guilt, and the ghosts of family past.
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"This play is a festival standout or studio-theatre powerhouse waiting to happen"- The Stage, New Writing Review 2012
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For teens and adults only. Or REALLY grown up kids.
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Printed copies of the play will be available November 2025 through online retailers.
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Please contact me directly if you are interested in producing this play for theatre or developing for film / television / Radio
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I am also available for college / university theatre workshops the script, discuss the themes and the process of writing the play with students.

Education: Performing Arts BA (Hons) at University of Chichester and London School of Film (Regents College) Masters in writing for Television, Film and Theatre
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Theatre Credits include; Cold Porridge (New York), Frenemies (Edinburgh Fringe), Saturday Night Sunday Morning (Sky Arts), Uber (London), Disney Land Paris, RENT (London), GHOST ( London)