Jeff has worked in arts and entertainment since the mid 70s. Beginning as a theatre writer and director – specialising in work by Alan Plater, Howard Brenton, Joe Orton, Harold Pinter and European writers Samuel Beckett, Max Frisch and Bertolt Brecht.
He took this experience into television and joined ITV company, Granada, as a writer and producer; which in the mid 80s, launched a second career as an independent screenwriter/producer/director.
Screen credits include arts series, entertainment features, drama documentaries, drama series and TV films.
Recently, after a decade as a script producer, edit producer and executive producer, he sat down at his desk and decided to go back to writing full time.
“Closing the Distance” bookmarked a switch to crime thrillers featuring Bristol private eye Jack Shepherd. “Changing the Odds”, “Cloning the Hate” and “Bending the Rules” followed.
The Jack Shepherd series, titled “The Bristol Thrillers” has now been re- released in two volumes by Diamond Crime.
Another character has joined the library. “One Fight at a Time” and “New Friends old Enemies” feature Ed Grover, an American GI in Bristol during the years following World War 2.
TV projects mark a return for a while to moving pictures, with two drama series in development.
“Shepherd” – a four episode adaptation of “Cloning the Hate”
“Mabel” – the true story of an extraordinary, courageous, and brilliant life.
Jeff is a member of BAFTA, the Society of Authors, and the Crime Writers Association.
