All Change Arts
Innovative cross-art form community organisation specialising in 'interventionist' work - getting photographers, writers and filmmakers to work with at-risk groups such as teenage mums or young offenders.
Almeida Projects
Young people's projects wing of Almeida Theatre, with whom I have done some of my most exciting education work. Sends theatre professionals from all disciplines into Islington schools under the visionary leadership of director Rebecca Manson Jones.
Arts Council England
Get on the mailing list.
Bad Graffitti
Absolutely nothing to do with theatre, but simply one of the most consistently funny blogs I have ever read. Great light relief from hammering out scripts. (There you go, that's a theatre link).
Benjamin Yeoh
Playwright blog. Good links to other blogs, articles and podcasts containing theatre news and views.
Beyond Care
Further details on the ground-breaking collaboration between Hampshire Social Services and Theatre & Beyond, on which I was co-tutor.
Curtis Brown Literary Agency
My hard-working agent Joe Phillips lives here.
Deptford Albany
One of my favourite venues in London, especially for spoken word and hip hop events.
Encore Theatre Magazine Blog
Wickedly cheeky and much-needed: an anonymously-written blog of British theatre worker(s) determined to ask extremely awkward questions of our industry, no matter who it offends. Go and have a look.
English PEN
Writers' membership organisation campaigning against persecution and imprisonment of writers around the world. I have just joined.
Fin Kennedy
I have a split personality in the form of another alternative blog on Blogger. It's mainly for the comments facility, which my blog here lacks. Ooh, we get into some right debates sometimes. There are alos links to other blogs on there, which I can't be bothered to list here.
First Light Film
Generous funders of community film-making projects, who gave my short film Babes a Best Documentary award.
Goldsmiths MA Writing for Performance
John Ginman taught me everything I know.
Guardian Theatre Blogs
Intelligent insightful blog entries on a range of arts issues and from a range of theatre critics, inlcuding Lyn Gardner and Michael Billington.
Guardian Unlimited
My first source of news and reviews, and occasional employer.
Half Moon Young People's Theatre
Inspiring community theatre company in the East End who produced my play for teenagers Locked In and We Are Shadows.
Hoxton Hall
Interesting old Victorian music hall, now a community resource in Hackney. Hosted I Confess, a unique promenade one-to-one monologue series, for which I wrote Blitz Spirit.
In-Yer-Face Theatre
Exhaustive website of theatre critic Aleks Sierz, specialising in new writing from the 1990s to today.
James Woolf
Another playwright with a website - more advanced than mine, with videos and stuff. Bit jealous. Good selection of audition pieces too.
Jerwood Arvon Apprenticeship scheme
Interesting organisation who send you away to a remote country house and beat a play out of you in a week.
John Whiting Award
To whom I am eternally grateful for rescuing my career from the jaws of a PGCE.
Kitchentable
My good friend Stuart's witty and occasionally moving Blog about life as a front-of-house manager in Manchester.
literaturetraining.com
At which aspiring writers of all stripes can recieve wisdom.
London Schools Arts Service
Searchable online database of artists from all art forms who do work in schools.
London Theatre Blog
Brand new blog and (so far as I know) the only one to focus exclusively on issues within London theatre. Run by Goldmsiths graduate Andrew Eglinton.
Mark Shenton's Newsblog
Stage journalist Mark Shenton's thoughtful blog about current affairs within the theatre industry.
Mulberry School
My favourite school to teach in, for whom I wrote 2007 Edinburgh smash hit Mehndi Night.
My London Life
Blog of theatre director Paul Miller.
Nick Hern Books
My lovely publisher.
O, Poor Robinson Crusoe
Blog of playwright Stephen Sharkey.
Offwestend.com
Rather marvellous website committed to celebrating smaller scale theatre work in London.
One Writer And His Dog
Blog of playwright David Eldridge.
Pearson Playwrights' Scheme
Who gave me my first break as writer-in-residence at Soho Theatre.
Pete Jones Productions
Website of excellent freelance theatre photographer Pete Jones.
Red Room Theatre Company
Exciting political theatre company producing new plays and not afraid to wade into national debates.
Sheffield Crucible
Run by the legendary Sam West, who produced my award-winning play How To Disappear Completely & Never Be Found.
Soho Theatre
Who produced my first play Protection in 2003. Now run by the inspirational Lisa Goldman of Red Room fame.
Subverse
Small but exciting political theatre collective producing short plays, poems and sketches bi-monthly at Theatre 503 and elsewhere, and for whom I occasionally write.
Theatre & Beyond
New writing company based in Brighton, with whom I worked on Beyond Care (see above).
Theatre Voice
Interesting dicsussion site run by professional theatre critics.
The National Theatre
Big up.
University of Greenwich
With whom I completed half a PGCE.
University of Manchester
With whom I completed a whole BA Hons in Drama & English.
Writernet
Inspirational and unique support network and pressure group for dramatic writers of all stripes. Go and subscribe immediately.
Young Vic Genesis Project
Fantastic resource - a database of the CVs of almost every young theatre director in the UK. So you can check them out before entrusting them with your life's work.