His first play Strip Poker, starring Barbara Drennan, Ione Skye, and Gary Hailes was performed at the Fox Theatre in North London.
Needs directed the play and the cast changed to include Sue Hodge, Carol Harrison, and Peter Dean.
He is the screenwriter of London Rocks, a heist movie currently in development in Los Angeles with producers Mark Ordesky and Jane Fleming, and co-writer with Rich Nathanson, of SafeWord, a psychological thriller.
He was the creative consultant on Dangerous Parking a feature film starring, Peter Howitt, Saffron Burrows, Tom Conti, Alice Evans, Rachael Stirling, and Sean Pertwee.
A campaign DVD for Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills that used previously shot undercover footage highlighting the trade in cat and dog fur around the world.
The DVD won an IVCA Clarion Award[4] and was shown to politicians at the European Parliament, Strasbourg and representatives of the Chinese Government.
It is a single (a charity tribute to the late footballer George Best) by Colin Hay, former lead vocalist of the Australian band Men at Work.