 Award-winning plays include "Fool to Yourself", which premiered at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in 1997, and which won the inaugural Sophie Winter Memorial Trust Award, "Easy Laughter", (Sunday Times Playwriting Award), "Coupling", (World Drama Trust Award), "Binary Dreamers", (Guinness Award for Theatre Ingenuity, in association with the Royal National Theatre).In 1993 he was made resident dramatist at the Northcott Theatre in Exeter, the youngest playwright to be honoured by the Arts Council in this way, and for them he wrote a series of plays, including his controversial comic fable about God living in suburbia, "Breaking Bread Together", which later was revived in London.His association with his mentor, Alan Ayckbourn, has been particularly fruitful, with "White Lies", "About Colin", and "Knights in Plastic Armour" proving especially popular.