 In 2004 he wrote, directed and starred in a biographical play about the Salford born poet John Cooper Clarke called "36 Hours".He also in 2007 directed a play at the Contact Theatre in Manchester, entitled "Fair".In 2016 he directed the biopic of Manchester band Joy Division called "New Dawn Fades" at the Dancehouse theater Manchester and in 2017 he directed a play entitled "Old Ground" which centred around the re-opening of the Moors Murders case in the mid 1980s.