I perform with Vyvyan Almond in a sketch group called The Awkward Silence. Our website is here if you click on this link go on click on this one right here, GO ON.  There you’ll find our upcoming gigs and more.

We have been shortlisted for a BBC Writer’s Prize and a Writers’ Guild Award, and come runner-up in the Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off competition. We have been described variously as “thoroughly entertaining and notably original” and “mediocre”.

We have produced six hour-long comedy shows: The Voyage of The Narwhal (2014), about the doomed maiden voyage of a massive cruise ship; Racketeers (2015), about two crooks who open a fish and chip shop in Brighton; The Bastard King (2017), about the fight to control an infant heir to a contested throne; Bufo Bufo (2018), about two men who uncover a mysterious conspiracy in 1920s Chicago; The Awkward Silence’s Big Break (2022), a musical about a son and hopeless father sent to prison together; and Enter the Vortex (2022), a mad and multi-layered sketch show. You can watch some of the shows FOR FREE via the links above. Our latest show, Mind Milk, will be at the Edinburgh Fringe this year.

Our shows have tended to be directed by Nick Davies, and are often script-edited by David Quantick, who has written for every programme ever broadcast, including Brass Eye, The Thick of It, Veep, and Harry Hill’s TV Burp.

We have an option for a TV sketch show and are developing a five-part online series about a mysterious trillionaire.

Get in touch with us on theawkwardsilence@hotmail.co.uk. We’re on Twitter here as well.