Member: Tony Matthews
Used to be a TV producer at the Beeb. Got some awards for educational programmes that no one else wanted to do and not many ever saw.
Now known in the parish magazine as a ‘local playwright’. Wrote a lot of so-called community plays about Windsor’s history, all performed in the town by am-dram enthusiasts and locals dragged in off the street.
Thanks to loads of people in the cast the plays got good audiences and even made a profit.
Developing poetry and short story writing as well. Joined Slough Writers in 2004. Developed a line in Old Git Lit. Likes deadlines and a bit of competition.
Says life’s not worth living if you stop learning.
Successes
Performed plays started with The Evacuees (1989) and Coming Home as Strangers (1990), both set in World War II. Then came The Pied Piper of Windsor, Railway Wars, and Fallen Women, set in the Victorian era. Don’t Stop the Music (1996) was a musical about the history of live music in Windsor. The King’s Head (2005)and The Windsor Martyrs (2007) reached back to the Civil War and the Reformation.
Short story published in Scribble magazine.
Runner up in Ashby Writers and Deeside Writers short story competitions.
Three first prizes in Slough Writers competitions.
Interests
Literature, Foreign Languages, Community Care
Expertise
Film and video-making, Gardening, Fundraising