Having been born and brought up in Sheffield he moved to London before the start of his career as a playwright.His first play Made Of Stone was performed in the Young Writers Festival at Royal Court in 2000.All his plays come from a starting image and this was two brothers standing by their fathers grave he has called Made of Stone his most personal play and his 'love letter' to Sheffield.

Redundant contained the first ever reference in theatre to Osama bin Laden where a character said that the whole country needed to be bombed by him to teach us all what suffering was. The play premiered at Royal Court on the 22nd September 2001 receiving gasps from the audience and the play was a critical and commercial flop even though it has been more recently recognised as a better play than was originally thought.

I'll Be The Devil was commissioned by the RSC to be written in response to The Tempest, set in rural Ireland it received mixed reviews but was the first time one of his plays was first performed in a major London theatre asides Royal Court.

Most recently his credit crunch themed play Faces In The Crowd was performed in the upstairs Jerwood Theatre at Royal Court.

He lives in London with his wife and daughter.