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Welcome to my website. I'd like to consider myself an actor, writer, director, poet and teacher and most of what I've done over the last 40 or so years has come from my own imagination and my own self-belief. My naïve objective? Make the world a better place. It's as simple as that.
Art is a kind of philosophy on life and principles of a variety of different philosophies can be explored, as I've discovered, via different cultural platforms such as theatre plays, poems, novels, acting or audio, music and Shakespeare. Life is a messy, unpredictable business and what is art but a simplistic and often naive attempt to suggest better ways of being and existing?
In the post-punk period of British youth culture 1980-85 I produced my own writings and found primitive ways (typewriters, stencils, photocopies, screenprints) to publish and distribute them to small audiences and, in a way, myself and my peers of those days dreamed of a day when technology would liberate us from having our output and visions controlled by a small elite. Technology has now answered our prayers and we are able to produce our work professionally for discerning audiences via online publishers or websites or other media. I know there's a certain amount of prejudice thrown at online publishing, we're not 'real writers' they say, but every book I've produced I've poured my life and soul into, lived through in some cases, researched in detail and fact checked in triplicate, written, proof-read, edited, revised, restructured, restarted, re-written, designed, formatted AND re-proofed and re-printed on average between 7 - 10 times each. Why so stubborn? Because it's all mine, apart from the physical production of the object. No middlemen, no compromise, no appeasement, just a certain level of integrity and purity.
This list will be added to as I have no plans to stop writing! A lot of living, expense, sacrifice, cups of coffee and tens of thousands of man-hours went into polishing my various projects for public consumption. All I've ever wanted was a legitimate platform on which to display my work so the spectator/reader or just the downright curious, can decide for themselves.
For three years in the late 1980's I trained as an actor at the prestigious Royal Central School of Speech & Drama in London and today can count many 'famous' television, film and theatre faces among my former peers, but I felt almost from the start that I would never be completely satisfied being paid to read other peoples lines, or promote other peoples products, no matter how much I was paid and no matter what glory I was offered and you can only follow your own instinct because if you don't you end up making yourself ill trying to please other people. I've had to learn that the hard way, but I haven't ruled out returning to acting in the future though. Never say never.
This then is the most comprehensive and updated guide to my work, available as of 1st September 2020. Please feel free to browse.
TS
Art is a kind of philosophy on life and principles of a variety of different philosophies can be explored, as I've discovered, via different cultural platforms such as theatre plays, poems, novels, acting or audio, music and Shakespeare. Life is a messy, unpredictable business and what is art but a simplistic and often naive attempt to suggest better ways of being and existing?
In the post-punk period of British youth culture 1980-85 I produced my own writings and found primitive ways (typewriters, stencils, photocopies, screenprints) to publish and distribute them to small audiences and, in a way, myself and my peers of those days dreamed of a day when technology would liberate us from having our output and visions controlled by a small elite. Technology has now answered our prayers and we are able to produce our work professionally for discerning audiences via online publishers or websites or other media. I know there's a certain amount of prejudice thrown at online publishing, we're not 'real writers' they say, but every book I've produced I've poured my life and soul into, lived through in some cases, researched in detail and fact checked in triplicate, written, proof-read, edited, revised, restructured, restarted, re-written, designed, formatted AND re-proofed and re-printed on average between 7 - 10 times each. Why so stubborn? Because it's all mine, apart from the physical production of the object. No middlemen, no compromise, no appeasement, just a certain level of integrity and purity.
This list will be added to as I have no plans to stop writing! A lot of living, expense, sacrifice, cups of coffee and tens of thousands of man-hours went into polishing my various projects for public consumption. All I've ever wanted was a legitimate platform on which to display my work so the spectator/reader or just the downright curious, can decide for themselves.
For three years in the late 1980's I trained as an actor at the prestigious Royal Central School of Speech & Drama in London and today can count many 'famous' television, film and theatre faces among my former peers, but I felt almost from the start that I would never be completely satisfied being paid to read other peoples lines, or promote other peoples products, no matter how much I was paid and no matter what glory I was offered and you can only follow your own instinct because if you don't you end up making yourself ill trying to please other people. I've had to learn that the hard way, but I haven't ruled out returning to acting in the future though. Never say never.
This then is the most comprehensive and updated guide to my work, available as of 1st September 2020. Please feel free to browse.
TS
