Alan’s play A Good Night Out in the Valleys launched the new National Theatre Wales in March 2010 and BBC Radio 3 broadcast his play, The Gold Farmer as part of The Wire season earlier this year.
His oratorio, The Journey, for the Welsh National Opera’s MAX department was also performed this summer.
His debut play, Orange, was commissioned and produced by Sgript Cymru and he has worked with companies including Pentabus, Hijinx Theatre (Miss Brown To You), Sherman Cymru (Cardboard Dad, Burberry), Paines Plough (The Loneliness of the Long Distance Bus Driver performed at Later, Trafalgar Studios, London), and The Operating Theatre Company (Brute at the Tristan Bates Theatre, London).
He has worked with the Welsh National Opera since 2008 on a range of projects and has also worked with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain as a writing workshop leader and with prisoners at HMP Cardiff on a radio play entitled I Forgot To Tell You. He is also a new writing tutor and mentor at Sherman Cymru.
