I tell stories and I help people tell their story.
I’m a writer and creative partner. People come to me for scripts, speeches, and stories. And for my ability to interrogate and shape ideas, make good creative plans, and bring a keen aesthetic eye to treatments and pitch decks. I don’t just write, I nurture creative projects and push them forward, giving them clarity and momentum.
Hello, I'm Doug.
I write
Looking for original ideas and stories?
Stalling on a script idea because you don’t know how to progress?
Delivering speeches that don’t feel fun?
Creating treatments that aren’t designed well enough to do the idea justice?
Stuck grappling with great complex ideas but don’t know how to make them happen?
Championing causes that aren't rallying support?
Welcome to my creative studio
I know from 20+ years’ experience across the creative industries that creativity needs collaborators. If you don’t ask the right questions of your story, and work with the best people to make it happen, projects get stuck; ideas don’t land, audiences don’t care, and that is not fun for anyone. I’ve made it my business to work out what projects need and deliver it when they need it. I like to help people get things made, and have a good time while they’re doing it. I work as:
Writer
For industry leaders and experts, brands, and causes, delivering playful, funny, intelligent scripts, speeches, campaigns and copy.
Designer
For brands, directors, photographers, I write and craft artful, elegant, concise pitch decks, and treatments, that get people excited.
Creative Producer
For artists, and creative leaders, I specialise in providing bespoke resource to move projects forward. I interrogate ideas, build plans, and plug creative gaps, and where I can’t do it myself, I assemble teams of people who can. I also support research, funding applications, script consultancy and development. Subject to availability.
How I work
Discover
We’ll book in a call to to explore the scope of your project and what’s holding it back, defining a clear brief and creative need I can nurture for you.
Design
I’ll work alongside you and your creative team, or go away and write what your project needs to move ahead. If useful, I’ll assemble the team to get it there.
Refine
We work together until the idea is ready for its next stop, whether your speaking, pitch and presenting, or heading into production.
Recent projects
Brand new play for Sky Comedy x Birmingham Rep Theatre
New solo show in development
Script consultancy for new fashion documentary series
Writing on Audible original series
Developing a brand-house for Imagination x Diageo
Writing a signature talk with Jo Bird Creative leader
Speechwriting for Russell Tovey x Art Basel Awards
I work with the people who have big ideas that they want to get out of their head and into the world. We all need great collaborators to get there.
If you don’t, ideas often don’t have the words or stories (and documents) that do them justice. People don’t buy into them, projects stall, audiences shuffle with the urge to look at their phone, and there’s nothing more frustrating than watch a great idea fade.
That’s why I do what I do. Because I believe in creativity. It’s why I bring years of experience writing for theatre, TV, brands, leaders, and artists, helping stories take the shape they need.
Here’s how it works:
We discover what’s missing
We design what’s needed
And we refine it until it lands
So, get in touch. Instead of sitting on an idea that isn’t moving, you’ll have a story that’s clear, fun to make, and ready for people to take notice.
