I tell stories and I help people tell theirs
I’m a writer and creative producer. I shape ideas, nurture projects, and lead creative delivery across artistic, commercial, and cultural collaborations that push the possibilities of storytelling.
Hello, I'm Doug.
I write
Welcome to my creative studio
From 20+ years’ experience across the creative industries, I know 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, and audiences don’t care. I developed this studio to offer creative writing and development services that scale to your needs, bringing clarity, the right collaborators, and getting the ball rolling on creative projects.
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Scripts for TV, film, theatre, podcasts, branded video, and live events.
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Keynotes, talks, and speeches for leaders and public figures, loaded with jokes and storytelling craft.
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Campaigns, brand messaging, and creative communications for causes and businesses.
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Artful, elegant, concise bespoke design and visual storytelling through decks, docs, treatments, and mark-making that help ideas stake their claim.
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Leading and developing projects from research and concept development through to delivery, including campaigns, events, films, and artistic collaborations, by assembling the right collaborators and timelines to make them happen.
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Development support that moves creative projects forward. Including script consultancy, speaker coaching, solo show development, funding applications, and mentorship, for business, brands, artists and creators.
Define
How I work
Get in touch via the contact form or book in a call to explore the scope of your project and what it needs. I’ll define a clear brief and creative need I can nurture for you, along with a budget project budget that best aligns to you.
Design
I’ll work alongside you and your creative team, or go away and create what your project needs, whether that’s writing, development, or assembling collaborators to take it further.
Refine
We work together until the idea is ready for its next step, whether that’s presenting, pitching, producing, or moving into full delivery.
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 watching 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.
