SCREENWRITING
Richard has recently embarked on a new chapter as a screenwriter, bringing the same depth and insight from his acting career to the page.
WAKE UP
Horror/Thriller
Polly has never been present. Except on Instagram. She’s a self-centred career girl always looking for the next high. She arrives in Rishikesh, India, on the promise of an exclusive spiritual retreat. But a quiet betrayal leaves her stranded in the chaos of the build-up to the festival of Holi in Rishikesh.
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A handsome young man appears—calm and magnetic. He offers her a way out of Rishikesh. Away from the madness. Polly eagerly welcomes it and follows him and his group to an abandoned Ashram high in the mountains, to welcome in the festival of Holi.
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Six strangers - innocent twenty-somethings, each on their own spiritual path—searching for meaning, connection and something more in this abandoned Ashram.
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But something is about to change.
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They are not alone.
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Not everyone approaches enlightenment the same way.
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A deeper danger is at play — one that forces Polly to question who she can trust, and how far she’s willing to go to survive.
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Moment by moment, choice by choice, she must learn what it really means to be present… before it’s too late.
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WAKE UP is a tense, atmospheric thriller about the moments that force us to truly awaken.
Drama
GREEN AND PLEASANT LAND
Co-written with Charlotte Fields
A dark, psychological drama set in an English public school in the 1980s. The story follows a boy scarred by abuse, culminating in a murder that sets off decades of secrets and unspoken truths. In the present, the protagonist has built a successful career and family, believing the past is buried. But when another survivor seeks justice, long-buried tensions rise, threatening to unravel everything he has constructed.
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Green and Pleasant Land is a taut, character-driven thriller exploring guilt, trauma and the ways the past refuses to stay hidden, a story about the shadows that linger long after life-altering acts and the cost of hiding from what cannot be undone.