James Lark

Work as a writer and director includes internet dramas Degrees of Separation and The Sitcom ("if you haven't already watched it you absolutely must" - The Guardian) and several short films, most recently A Hand in the Bush, A Cake for Jim Broadbent, Purgatory, Beach (winner of the Strawberry Shorts best local film audience and jury awards) and Hide and Seek with Talk to Rex productions. Also collaborated on several shorts with Jon Croker for Hired Thugs productions, of which Summer's End won an Andrew Cross Award in 2006. An accomplished professional composer with work including several film scores. Work for theatre includes new musicals Miracles at Short Notice and award-winning 2007 total Fringe sell-out show Tony Blair – the Musical. Other productions, as both a composer and writer, include an adaptation of The Snow Spider with Io Theatre Company, and Watford Palace Theatre’s production of Lysistrata. Debut novel, More Tea, Jesus?, was published as an e-book last year.