Simon Farquhar

The production starred Joseph McFadden and Dawn Steele and was directed by Richard Wilson, as part of the theatre's 50th anniversary season.

[2][3][4] Rainbow Kiss opened in New York in Spring 2008, directed by Will Frears and produced by The Play Company.

The annual fund-raising event sees six writers asked to each choose from a pool of available actors and each write a ten-minute play for them overnight which is then learned and performed the following evening on the Old Vic stage.

[1] In 2007 he wrote and presented the documentary Razor Sharp: The Story of Peter McDougall, the Scottish television dramatist, and in 2015, A Sympathetic Eye for BBC Radio 4.

A Deafening Silence: Forgotten British Murders in 2024 reflected on a decade of writing about and explored some of the stories he had heard along the way which had made a particular impact on him.