Lost my voice halfway through the season of a stage production.

Sent ten sketches to a TV sketch comedy show and they filmed one of them / Also was an extra in three TV commercials (including one for a beer company, immediately followed by an anti-alcohol commercial).

Sent fifteen sketches to a TV sketch comedy show and they filmed three of them / One sketch, Extremely and Utterly, I sent to about three TV comedy shows and they all turned it down / After trying everything, and all having failed, I gave up any hope of my voice ever returning, when one day – which I have no explanation for – it just simply came back.

Hired by a TV sketch comedy show to be one of their lead writers. Wrote one hundred and ten sketches for them, of which they filmed forty-four. / With my voice back, I returned to the theatre and acted in two stage productions.

Wrote ideas for five possible TV shows and sent to a TV channel. Was contacted by a producer who said one of my outlines was one of the funniest things she had ever read. Was in negotiations with the producer for a while, but it eventually came to nothing.

Performed stand-up comedy. I did okay, but I was more interested in other things I was doing at the time. / Was an extra in a TV drama series / Acted in two stage productions, one of which I also directed / Wrote the short play Sherlock Holmes and the Bilious Blackmailer / Got an all-consuming, I just need some money – any money – right now, full-time job. Consequently, my social life also rocketed off as a result, and so finding the time to do anything artsy-related from hereon got really really hard

Stepped in as a last-minute lifeline to be the lighting and sound operator for a friend’s stage production.

Extremely and Utterly was performed in a short-play festival. On the same bill was Sherlock Holmes and the Bilious Blackmailer, which I directed and acted in. / Also acted in two other stage productions that year.

Wrote the two short plays Sherlock Holmes and the Garrotted Governess and Odd (which I also directed and acted in). / Also acted in five other stage productions that year.

Stepped in as a last-minute lifeline to be the assistant stage manager for a friend’s production of “The Sound of Music” / Acted in two stage productions, including Odd (which was part of the inaugural Auckland Arts Festival).

Did two TV commercials.

Acted in two stage productions.

Acted in a TV drama series / Left my all-consuming job, and my messed up private life, and retreated to England.

Someone talked me back into returning to Auckland and I fell right back into the scene I wanted to get away from / Was invited by a TV production company to write a sample drama script for them. I liked what I wrote, but they obviously didn’t when they ceased contact from thereon / Acted in a stage production / Got a job as a rehearsal stand-in for a TV game show.

Got into another all-consuming I need some money – any money – from somewhere full-time job.

Acted in a TV drama series / Directed and acted in Sherlock Holmes and the Garrotted Governess / Wrote the short play Finis.

Directed Finis, which was performed in the inaugural Short + Sweet Auckland festival / Left my all-consuming job and moved back to England / Acted in a stage production of “Hedda Gabler”.

Wrote the two stage plays Sherlock Holmes and the Jittery Jewelmaker and Flourish (which was performed in the second Short + Sweet Auckland festival) / Acted in a stage production / Did three radio shows as a guest co-presenter.

Acted in a stage production. Was halfway through the season when I got a call to return to New Zealand to see my ailing dad. Finished the season and was on a plane within twenty-four hours. Got to my father and he died a couple of days later. / Wrote the screenplay A Dream Life / Wrote the short play Touchy Subject / Did four radio shows as a guest co-presenter.

Acted in two stage productions (including “A Streetcar Named Desire”) / Did four radio shows as a guest co-presenter / Was commissioned by a London theatre producer to write a modern day adaptation of “La Ronde.” Along the way, the producer disappeared off the scene, but I completed the play anyway as Fooling Around / Acted in a short film.

Wrote the short film Senseless. Found a producer who was interested in it, but it all came to nothing in the end / Returned back to New Zealand / Directed Touchy Subject / Was invited again by the same TV production company in 2007 to write a sample drama script for them. Again, I liked what I wrote, but again they shunned me, in exactly the same way as they did seven years ago.

Acted in a stage production / Produced and stage managed a charity stand-up comedy revue / Mother died.

Wrote the short play The Need for Seed.

Moved back to England / Acted in a stage production of “An Ideal Husband”.

Did three live radio shows as a guest co-presenter / Self-published the book Rambunctious Righting, a collection of random stories of mine / Acted in a movie.

Did one radio show as a guest co-presenter / Acted in a movie / Wrote the short play Come Around. A festival producer expressed interest in the play, but then the festival – surprise, surprise – got cancelled.

Acted in a live “zoom” theatre performance of the first scene of “Odd” known as Booby Trapped / Completed the full-length stage play Sexosis.

Spent most of the year researching and gathering material for a couple of non-fiction books I am working on / Money reserves depleted, so had to get a proper job to get myself out of financial strife / Rehearsed a stage production, but had to pull out when I injured my back.