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Wooden Overcoats Season 2 - Kickstarter!

30/5/2016

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We've launched the Kickstarter for the second season of Wooden Overcoats! Season One was made on a low budget with a huge team of talented professionals donating their time and efforts for free. For Season Two, we'd like to ensure that - in addition to covering our production costs and creating even more content - we can pay everybody for their work. 
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Ciara Baxendale, Beth Eyre and Felix Trench
M'self and the new writing team are currently hard at work creating a whole season's worth of new stories for Rudyard, Antigone, Georgie, Eric and everybody else on the island of Piffling, and we just hope we get to hear them produced. We've even created some brand new mini-episodes for this fundraising campaign, called Piffling Lives, which give new perspectives on the series and its characters. New episodes will be launched to everybody on our iTunes feed when we hit our targets. Two of them - Random Mouse by Rosie Fletcher and Agatha Doyle and the Honey Trap by Tom Crowley - have already been released, and you can find them on your usual podcast client or on the Wooden Overcoats website.
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Joseph Cullen, Alison Skilbeck and Rosie Fletcher record "Random Mouse"
Check out our Kickstarter page, watch the video, have a gander at our rewards. We can only make this series if we fundraise our budget - and we really, really want to make this series. If you enjoyed Wooden Overcoats Season One, or even just plain like supporting independent radio comedy, please do consider donating some loose change to us, and share the Kickstarter with friends and family!  
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Pint-Sized at Pleasance

10/5/2016

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I'm afraid I've been very lax in updating my website of late. Currently very busy writing new scripts for a certain podcast sitcom... (Though I'm not supposed to mention that, so pretend I didn't.)

However, last night I was delighted to be part of the Pint-Sized short plays event at the Pleasance Theatre, organised by Matt Maltby and Nicholas Oliver. A selection of startlingly original new dramatic works, followed by the Wooden Overcoats team shuffling on to deliver an excerpt from episode 1. The response was better than we could have hoped, playing to our largest venue yet (180 seats at Pleasance Main House) and getting our loudest laughs. I couldn't have been more pleased with how it went, and extremely proud of my regular cast Felix Trench, Beth Eyre, Tom Crowley and Ciara Baxendale. 

Also, a great opportunity to be on the inside of a large theatrical collaboration, witnessing the labours of many smaller groups of writers, directors and actors. T'was an eclectic gathering of styles and no mistake. I know we're not supposed to have favourites but I was particularly taken with the work of James Corrigan, who apparently - the programme tells me - hasn't had his writing performed before. Bloody Hell! It was a tremendously confident debut, dripping with menace and eliciting a lot of laughs over uncomfortable subject matters. I certainly hope I can see more of his scripts on stage soon!

Big congratulations to my Wooden Overcoats team for doing a stellar job, and huge thanks to Matt and Nick for selecting my script for Pint-Sized! We'd love to do it again, guys. Just sayin'. 
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