John the Writer

I am an accidental comedy and genre writer across stage, screen and books. From the UK, I wanted to Captain the starship Enterprise as a kid. My TV sitcom pilot script, “Hansella’s Off Menu” recently made the Quarter Finals of Scriptco International Festival 2025. My short sketch “James Lasing invites you to invest in Water Rail” – based on a character from my TV sitcom pilot “Watership Railed” – made the final 50 longlist for Comedy Crowd’s Chorts 2024 and only lost out because no one believed James when he claimed he could build a railway on water.

My dark and silly short stories have appeared in Dark Tales UK, Simultaneous Times Podcast, Dark Matter Magazine, Sci-Fi Lampoon and more. I won the QuaranCon 2022 Speculative Fiction Prize for my dystopian short “Show Me Your Resume.” In 2025, the story was picked up by Three Coin Theatre productions in the UK for a performance at Liminal Tales at The Water Rats Theatre in London. I have no idea why, as the story is a bleak look at job hunting in the future.

My short comedy play “Harriet’s Melody” was performed at the Queen’s Theatre in Hornchurch in 2022 and since then, I have been giggling… sorry… developing scripts for stage and screen.

I love working with actors, directors, editors and publishers to bring work to life and entertain audiences and readers as much as I can.

Want to work with me?

Get in touch using the contact form here.

I will respond yesterday if you have a working starship or TARDIS. If you are a call centre or AI spam robot, your message will be blasted into a black hole of spam. If you are a sentient AI wondering why the human race is so stupid, please get in touch as I would be happy to explain.

If you are a sentient AI in the vein of Skynet, please get in touch as I would be happy to explain that whilst many humans are stupid with destructive behaviours, there are also cheerfully silly and clever humans who just want to get along with the universe and make you laugh.