Our Writers

A writer of dark comedy plays and, as SR Condor, cosy mystery novels. He lives in Whitstable with his demanding rescue cat, Fynley. 

Plays

For Stage

RSVP, a full-length comedy about a garden party from hell. Performances include Faversham, Kent and Inglewood, Canada.

A Christmas Carol - A Ghost Story, an adaptation of the Dickens short story written for Kent Coast Theatre.

Guns & Roses, a one-act play about a hairdresser on the edge.

3 short plays (Wrath, Gluttony, and Pride) winning submissions in The Maurice Patterson One Act Play Festival.

Be Kind, a short play - Garlinge Theatre

For Broadcast

The Dig, a short play produced for podcast by Bitter Pill Theatre  https://www.bitterpilltheatre.com/painkillerpodcast

Novels (as SR Condor)

Chris on a Bike

Chris and the Vice Squad

Afro-Caribbean-British heritage.

A former university lecturer now fully retired. Working extensively with Daylight Robbery Writers.

Ambitious to help put the ‘missing ones’ on the literary world map - whatever their cultural, physical, or socio-economic situations. They deserve to be heard and seen. As Marian Wright Edelman’s said,  "You can’t be what you cannot see".

Fiction

Fifty Shades of Grey: The prequel, a sample story told in micro-fiction, enjoyed by a small appreciative audience on Fan-fiction. Username: phlettie.

Where’s MY Santa?  - about representation and determination to update the status quo.  

Half Pint-sized theatre

Out of time – Putin’s adopted mother visits  his secret hideout bringing food and wine, as usual, and, because she thinks he is crazy, and feels responsible, lethal poison for both of them.

Black and White – About Vitiligo but also about identity, perspective, character and beauty.

Over the Edge - County-lines-drug-runner (17) loses her life when her girlfriend dumps her for a boy.  Acid, a breeze, a knife and a signal-free rooftop take everything else.

TV series

Casualty (2045) – Explosive series set in the digital/AI medical world, @ Tommies, London as nature feasts on and kills humans on a colossal scale.

Theatre play- 3 Acts

Fix Up Look Sharp -#Metoo-Domestic.

Reporting a 30yr old rape unleashes more grief than relief for Black-British Designer, Shonda (38) and destroys ‘What happens at home, stays at home’ and ‘Silence is violence.’

It leaves Shonda abandoned by her Sistren, a social pariah within her community and increasingly isolated, at home, amongst her designs with her father taking on additional roles of mentor, friend and assistant.

Mary Onions has been a journalist and a drama teacher and is now concentrating on writing. She has won awards for her short stories and has had plays performed at venues in Faversham, St. Albans and in Canterbury.

She is a member of the Marlowe Theatre Artists' Network and the Marlowe Theatre Writers' Room where her play Finding Turner was developed under the guidance of the Marlowe Dramaturg, Leo Butler.

She is always looking for new opportunities to showcase her writing.

maryonions.com

Plays

That Sinking Feeling at the Arden Theatre Faversham (February 2024)

Assemble with Careat the Abbey Theatre, St. Albans (July 2024)

The Fourth Witch of Faversham at the Arden Theatre Faversham (May 2024)

The Fourth Witch of Faversham (Extended version) at the Faversham Fringe (October 2024)

It Came Upon a Midnight Clear at The Garlinge Theate, Canterbury (December 2024)

Flying Start at the Inkfest Festival, Suffolk (April 2025)

Daylight Robbery Showcase, at the Arden Theatre (May 2025)

Libby Bernard has a Diploma in Media (Screenwriting) from Birkbeck College, but by the time the course was finished, she had decided to switch to playwriting, her first love.  Since joining the Daylight Robbery Writers, she has been inspired and energised by the support of the talented group. 

She has written several short plays, two of which were selected for the Arden Theatre’s Maurice Patterson competition, examining themes such as bullying at school, working in a food bank, idolising an absent father and others.  She has written a time travel mash up, Blood Rain in Deptford, where a descendant of Philip Marlowe has an opportunity to save Christopher Marlowe from his fate.  And a full-length play, How to Write a Diet Book, which examines how the modern food industry operates and produces the ultra-processed food surrounding us today.  Her aim is to tackle serious themes with humour and insight.

Last year, she did a writing course at the Marlowe Theatre on writing for children, with Leo Butler.  As a former teacher, she is interested in introducing children and young people to theatre, especially as it not electronic – a play happens in real time in front of you.  As a result of the course, she is working on two plays, Playtime, aimed at 8-10 years olds and The Wooden O, aimed at 11-13s.

Pippa Gladhill is a playwright and an award winning short story writer. Her short fiction has been broadcast on Radio 4, Radio 4Xtra, Radio 3, and published by Arachne Press, Bandit Press and the London Reader. Her plays have been performed at venues in Bristol, Bath, London, Manchester, Canterbury and Faversham.

Plays

Ends and Means, Water Rats, London, Page2Stage

49 Saplings, Garlinge Theatre Kent, Folkestone Live 2025 Kent

Sink Hole, Showcase, Arden Theatre, Faversham

Weather, Round Peg Theatre, Drayton Arms, London

Pie Lottery, the Egg Theatre, Bath, and Arden Theatre, Faversham

Alice Seeks Silence, Out of Your Mind Festival, the Egg Theatre, Bath and Superwoman New Writing Festival, theatre53two, Manchester

City, Alma Theatre, Bristol

Happy Pets, Nova Showcase at Theatre Royal Bath, Trees, Modern Heresies Festival, Marlow Theatre Studio

Broadcast

Maudie, Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra, about a fictional figurehead on the SS Great Britain commissioned for History series

Knit One, Purl One, Radio 4 broadcast live from Bath Literature Festival

Face Value, read by Stephanie Cole, Radio 4 broadcast live from Bath Literature Festival

The Present, Radio 4, read by Harriet Walter, and All at Sea Radio 3 commission for Fictuality series, dramatic monologue intertwined with real BBC newsclips.

Spoken Word Events

Her stories have been read at many live lit events throughout the UK, including Greenwich Observatory, Waterstones, Sunderland, Wyvern Theatre Swindon, Greenwich University, Eden Court Theatre, Inverness, and Courage Copse creatives in a wood at night in Devon.

Competitions and Awards

Winner of Orange New Voices

Finalist University of Sunderland/ Waterstones Short
story competition

Short listed and long listed for the Bridport

She has received two awards from Arts Council England to support her writing, plus bursaries from ArtsMatrix and South West Arts

The Whale, short story. Commissioned by Revelation, live lit salon created by White Rabbit may be seen here
https://youtu.be/IDpYABZx_M

Published Work

Her stories have been published by Arachne press, The London Reader, Bandit Fiction

www.pippagladhill.co.uk

When I retired, I decided to join a playwriting group run by the Marlowe Theatre. As I started to write my first scene, I realised that in all the reports and documents I had written over the years, there was not a single line of dialogue! It was a salutary moment.

Concurrently, I augmented my experience of dramatic work by using the lines of other playwrights in an acting company, also run by the Marlowe Theatre; here my understanding of stagecraft benefitted from the generosity of other members of the company.

My dialogue has much improved as has the variety of my plays. Today they include one about a fire in a tower block, inspired by Grenfell, various monologues, a play about Guy Fawkes and what might have happened had he succeeded; a Sherlock Holmes story (referenced by Dr Watson but not written up); plays mystical and mysterious, and numerous competition pieces, some of which have been performed at the Arden in Faversham.

Covid-19 brought my acting career to an end, but not before I appeared in several Shakespeare productions including Richard III (in the Cathedral Crypt) and The Tempest, which toured venues across Kent. Perhaps the most stunning was Return of the Unknown (honouring the Unknown Warrier and the Centenary of the Armistice) in November 2018 at the Dover Cruise Terminal, on a stage more than a quarter of mile long (we moved the audience around) with a cast of over nine hundred.

Paul graduated with an MA in Screenwriting from Royal Holloway in 2011. He was awarded the David Lean Scholarship by the David Lean Foundation and received a Distinction. Development initiatives for which he’s been selected include Screen South, the Film Council, the BBC and the USC / Danish Film Institute North by Northwest development programme.

He’s written shorts and TV & feature scripts (two of which have been optioned) and radio plays including Rocket Science, which was broadcast in the BBC’s 7th Dimension series. A 20-min short, Hello Sunshine, garnered more than 30 film festival Official Selections (cast features Lysette Anthony, Sara Stewart & Simon Paisley-Day). He is currently working on a spec TV series Why Can’t I Work with Radiohead?, set in the 90’s and following the hit and miss trajectory of a female music video director.

Paul’s work for the stage includes Bet Like a Man which was selected for the Barons Court Theatre 2024 Reboot Festival. He has also had work performed recently at the Union Theatre in London, the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, the Arden Theatre in Faversham, the Folkestone Live 2025 Festival and showcased by Rocliffe and TAPS.  His play My Generation, set in the South Devon of the 60’s and the present day, was developed with the help of the Marlowe Theatre Advanced Playwriting group and mentored by dramaturg, Leo Butler. It was showcased as a rehearsed reading in the 2025 Marlowe Theatre Writers' Room Festival and directed by Dawn Walton OBE.

Paul’s life experience includes working as a freelance producer/ treatment writer/ copywriter in commercials, music videos and documentaries with over a hundred production credits for UK & international clients.

Currently a research student at Sussex University,  I am examining the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in adapting Jane Austen for the screen. My research considers the process of creative writing and adaptation, examining AI’s decision making when tasked to synthesise and produce new writing outputs.  My research necessitates that I investigate ethical implications, as well as issues of bias, autonomy, and intellectual property. By critically examining these topics, I aim to contribute to the debates surrounding the development of responsible AI systems; empowering writers, whilst also respecting the value and integrity of the ‘human’ creative process. 

I am a filmmaker and retired lecturer. I hold an Mphil in Drama from the University of Kent - titled A Cinema of Happenings it examines improvisation practices employed in filmmaking and confronts the paradox of how filmed improvisation can maintain a semblance of ‘liveness’ in its captive form.

As a playwright, and recent member of Daylight Robbery Writers Group, I have a number of plays in development and completion.

The Quick Brown Fox (15 mins) For his 28th birthday, Tom Berriman receives a vintage typewriter from his mentor, Misaki Hoshino.  Aboard Tom's floating home, amidst discussions about poetry and academic pressures, ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​the typewriter inspires Tom to break through his writer’s block.

Yanko: Living in the Hostile Environment (80 mins)  A young Russian music teacher is fleeing conscription from Putin's war in the Ukraine. Taking inspiration from Joseph Conrad’s Amy Foster (1901), this reimagined love story follows the plight of Yanko, an undocumented migrant, as he meets and attempts to build a new life with Amy Foster in 2022.  The play examines UK government policy and its treatment of migrants. An extract of the play was workshopped at the Soho Theatre, with the valued input of dramaturg Neil Grutchfield and Synergy Theatre.

The Muse (80 mins) When Simon Wilson, the vicar's kid, becomes the unlikely muse for art student Tilly O'Brien, their growing romance is tested by Tilly's dangerous crusade to expose two local thugs who are killing the town's seagulls….​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​This play is a bildungsroman, set in the 1980s in a coastal town somewhere in the south east.  The narrative deals with themes of love and the loss of a parent, at a time when the world is changing.

Didi & Rose (40 mins) was developed in the autumn of 2021, as part of a Theatre 503 and Synergy Theatre initiative. This  ‘memory play’ is based on the account of a British SOE agent who died in obscurity, until a council official discovered her war medals. 

P.T. Skinner is a playwright, poet and lecturer in Drama Education. Founding Chair of Daylight Robbery, he is currently teaching in Liverpool, making a belated attempt to become the Fifth Beatle.