It is my privilege to encourage, advise and bully this eccentric gathering of extraordinary talent.
...And a joy to have witnessed this 'Fabulous Creative Writing Group' swell into the excitable beast that it is today; with its out-pouring of ideas and creativity.
Sometimes we play noisy games to stir our creative juices, often we
have arguments (ahem, debates) over writing related stuff or a play
we've seen on a Monday...
Always we play music and eat nice snacks while furiously hammering
out our personal projects.
We recently spent a week working hard at the Totleigh Barton,
Arvon Foundation Centre in Devon: click here to see the photos!
 MY
OWN WORK revolves around screenwriting and so far I have completed
three full-length film scripts, a 90 minute TV drama and two short plays.
MY STORY
I was a theatrical
actress for 13 years - as well as a stand-up comic on London's comedy
circuit, writing my own material. I've also worked as a chicken
keeper in Bethlehem, a dish-washer in Tel Aviv, a bricklayer in
St. Tropez, a nightclub dancer in Milan, a busker in Amsterdam,
a barmaid all over the world and searched for crocodiles on the
Amazon in Peru.
Back home I've been an aerobics instructor, football coach and Receptionist
in a
brothel - and then, following my own experiences of street
homelessness in London,
Florence and Rome; helped to set up and
run an Eco-Village in Wandsworth, along
with the direct-action group
The Land Is Ours.
This sun and wind-powered project assisted more than 200 homeless
people to build their own homes and grow vegetables/gardens and
sculptures - establishing an urban, ecologically-sustainable community…
Until the police burnt down our houses in a dawn raid/eviction and
the utopia was over.
...And I became a Key-worker in London - in a 78 bed hostel for street-homeless
men.
The ensuing years of bedlam, arson and overdoses evolved into a film idea - and I scripted the urban drama: SALVATION HOUSE ...Telling the truth about homelessness
and addiction.
Salvation House
was optioned by
but the rights are now back with me.
I have since attended
courses at:
...and have completed three more film and television scripts: REASONS
TO BE SINGLE, HOW NOT TO CHANGE YOUR BOYFRIEND and TOUGH LOVE.
REASONS TO BE
SINGLE
is a Romantic Comedy about addiction (and interfering housemates).
HOW NOT TO CHANGE YOUR BOYFRIEND
is a feel-good comedy about wanting
people to change.
TOUGH LOVE
is an urban drama for television.
Read the log-lines:
Read the synopses:
View samples of my film scripts: (PDF Files)
And theatre scripts: (PDF Files)
I am also a
practicing astrologer with an online
ASTROLOGY SHOP selling the brightest horoscope reports on the web:
My astrology
illustrations:
(Click small images to see full size versions)
Alison's Natal Report
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