Tim Jenkins (Founder and President) [RIP]
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Joanne Higginson (Chair)
Joanne has been a member of Mole Valley Scriptwriting Group for over 10 years, during which time she has had scripts performed at the Leatherhead Drama Festival in 2013 and 2018. Joanne has also previously had two short plays produced at the Charles Cryer Theatre in Carshalton. Joanne’s scripts are mostly written for the stage, but she has also written for film and radio.
Tony Earnshaw (Secretary)
Tony is one of our award winning playwrights and a published and respected poet. His plays include Little Brother, The Door, Satin Doll and Visiting Time, for all of which he has won Best New Writing Awards. Tony’s plays have been staged in various theatres and other venues around the UK and elsewhere, not least in London, Edinburgh and New York.
One of his more recent plays, The Speech, was toured by Damn Cheek Productions as a double bill with The Door, while his take on the life of Elizabeth Taylor, Sex is Another Language, has been performed by several theatre companies.
Recent work includes two large scale community theatre projects – Passion for the Planet and The Causeway. Tony has also branched out into a career as a novelist (Blessed Assurance published in 2019) and a librettist with George and The Dragon, a work for choirs and orchestra, and an opera based on A Christmas Carol.
For more details, see Tony’s website: tonyearnshaw.co.uk/
Kenneth Clelland [RIP]
Writing as Kenneth Clelland, his play Shades won an award to be professionally workshopped in front of an audience at The Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Mill Studio, Guildford. Under his real name, Tim Jenkins, he studied Drama for three years at Morley College Theatre School in London. He also appeared at the Ashcroft Theatre and performed in amateur theatre over 40 years.
Working as a stage magician during the 1960s, he appeared at the Tavistock Rooms and other West End Venues. He ran the High Street Theatre Company, a London Fringe group out of the Barons Court Theatre in the 90s. His short film script No Reply, filmed with Sutton Filmmakers, appears below.
He also directed a short film, 6th Sense. See below for both films. At that time, writer Andy Lear and cameraman Patrick Bloomfield were club members.
Splitting Hairs, for which there is a link below, is from a collection of 4 dramatic monologues. The last one, A Delicate Balance, is based on the Easter story told through the eyes of Pontius Pilate, and is performed regularly at Easter by actor John Griffin.
Link to Kenneth Clelland website
Works by Kenneth Clelland (click on the links below):
No Reply
6th Sense
Splitting Hairs, featuring actor/writer/director Michael Franklin
Alex Birch (Treasurer)
Alex has been a member of Mole Valley Scriptwriting Group since 2015 and has written scripts intended for stage, radio, film, and television.
As the resident writer of Big Bold Theatre between 2009 and 2011, five of Alex’s plays were produced: two comedies – Detective Bodge’s Great Investigation and Disastrous Dates; two dramas – Sibling Rivalry and The Fall of Thomas Cromwell; and a tragedy based on Shakespeare’s Othello called Envy & Evil.
As A. J. Birch, Alex has also self-published The Lily Chronicles, a trilogy of fantasy novels for children: The Last Witch beyond the Forest, The Malevolent Wizard and The Fate of All Kinds.
Tony Brady
Tony has been a member of Mole Valley Scriptwriting Group since February 2025.
He is new to writing, only putting pen to paper since retiring as a London cab driver in October 2023. However, all those hours sitting on taxi ranks gave him plenty of time to plan what he was going to do with the ideas that buzzed around his head. Years of listening to real life stories led him to be passionate about character-driven writing, and scriptwriting was an obvious fit.
Tony has yet to have any of his work performed, but he has written scripts in a number of genres and hopes to have something put on soon.
Tony Brady
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