Over the last 26 years Daniel has worked for Exeter -based Theatre Alibi as an actor, joint artistic director (1995 -2000) and writer. Last year he won an ACA award for his writing for children with the company. His plays for Alibi include: Falling; Hammer and Tongs; Goucher’s War; Cobbo; Caught; One in a Million; The Freeze; Shelf Life; Little White Lies; The Swell; Sea of Faces and Birthday. He has also adapted novels by Charles Dickens, Graham Greene, Michael Morpurgo and Dick King - Smith for the company. Other theatre work includes: A Box of Photographs; We’re Going on a Bear Hunt (Polka Theatre); Where’s the Bear; Wish Wash; KnitwitsandFlathampton(Northampton Theatres). For BBC R4 Daniel has written:Lodsell Cod; Grooming; Jim and Tonic; Building Happiness and Charity. In 2013, Daniel was Leverhulme artist-in-residence at the University of Exeter’s Mood Disorders Centre. He is currently writing a screenplay ofThe Flying Lovers of Vitebsk.