James Lark

James Lark's debut novel, More Tea, Jesus?, was published as an e-book last year and he collaborated on Fringe, a light hearted guide to the Edinburgh Fringe. His other work as a writer includes internet dramas Degrees of Separation and The Sitcom ("if you haven't already watched it you absolutely must" - The Guardian) and several short films, most recently A Hand in the Bush, A Cake for Jim Broadbent, Purgatory and Beach (winner of the Strawberry Shorts best local film audience and jury awards) with Talk to Rex productions. Before that he collaborated on several shorts with Jon Croker for Hired Thugs productions, of which Summer's End won an Andrew Cross Award in 2006. Also an accomplished professional composer, James scored several of these films himself. He has also written extensively for theatre, including new musicals Miracles at Short Notice and award-winning 2007 total Fringe sell-out show Tony Blair – the Musical (“runs the melodic gamut from near-Weillian severity to knowingly schmaltzy balladry, and is packed with rich, tight harmonies” – The Daily Telegraph) and his 2006 one-man show The Rise and Fall of Deon Vonniget (“very funny…fantastically skewed” – the New York Times). Other productions, as both a composer and writer, include an adaptation of The Snow Spider with Io Theatre Company, and Watford Palace Theatre’s production of Lysistrata.