Hi. Hello. Greetings.

This is the first entry on this Blog - how very exciting!

So, for the last several months I've found myself spiralling deeper and deeper down the rabbit-hole. Having given up my hazardous lifestyle of international search and rescue missions for the British Government last November, I decided to try my hand at this theatre company business. Hell, monkies that ride unicycles make money - why shouldn't I?

For close to seven years I worked in amateur circles as a Director, Writer, Actor, Stage Manager... as well as working as an actor, stage manager, general do-gooder and superhero within professional TV, film, and theatre... and after experiencing the good, the bad, and most definately the ugly, I decided that I wanted a shot at the helm. I had experience as an actor on the recieving end of a harsh audition panel, as a FOH manager and technical wizard, I've walked into theatres and found we were playing to 9 people in a 2000 seater venue, I've played to full houses, gone onstage with half a days rehearsal... I'm not sure what else, but it feels like quite a lot of experience for a 25 year old who grew up in a little seaside town.

So, armed with this weighted head crammed full of gooey theatrical trickery and the skills required to stage a blinder of a show on around £70 and a packet of wheat biscuit mix, Stageworks Theatre was forged from the darkness... or something equally cinematic pleasing to the eye. Picture the scene in Lord of the Rings when Sauron's minions are crafting all those mean looking pointy axes and things. Somewhere, in the dregs of all this lurked an idea that stole away into the night, across Middle Earth, and then got lost and ended up in my head. Weird, huh?

So this Blog is going to be an insight into the creation of a new professional theatre company - one mans quite ridiculous quest to just... put on some bloody shows that people will really, really enjoy. It'll be horribly honest I'm afraid, no glamourising of the nettle-ridden path I'm about to venture down, leading to either massive national success, or a job in Malton Bacon Factory.

I hope you enjoy reading my rambled writings.