James Martin Charlton (born 29 July 1966)[1] is an English playwright, theatre director and filmmaker.
His play Fat Souls won the 1992 International Playwriting Festival[2] at Warehouse Theatre, Croydon, where it premièred in 1993.
Fat Souls and the plays which followed it - Groping in the Dark and Coming Up - use verse dialogue, soliloquies and emblematic characterisation all strapped to contemporary stories.
In 2001, his play ecstasy + GRACE attracted media attention[3][4] due to its portrait of paedophilia and moral degeneracy.
He has also directed shows with casts of prisoners at HMP Maidstone, including The Who's Tommy.