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andrew allen
@mygrayne.bsky.social
Writer, director, actor, creative coach, list maker. Credits include ONE WOMAN ALIEN, YEAR WITHOUT SUMMER, FOUR PLAY, THE CITY OF DR MOREAU, THE HAUNTING OF GABRIEL CHASE

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The weather outside is frightful* but our six new plays are delightful!!

Join us at the Cast Iron Short Play Night November Edition - tonight at 7.30 at Presuming Ed!

*it’s not frightful at all actually we quite like the snow

Book via the CAST IRON button in the linktree above 👆🏼
November 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Every Christmas, the city of Brighton & Hove come together to celebrate the 1974 Doctor Who story ‘Planet Of The Spiders’
November 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The Running Man:

Proper old fashioned style pulpy fiction actioner. Lots of Easter Eggs in one scene - the names of Shelley Duvall, Christopher Walken, Jack Nicholson, Stephen King himself and more all invoked.
November 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Meet the playwrights of this Wednesday’s SHORT PLAY NIGHT from Cast Iron Theatre at @prezedbrighton!
November 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
If Chat GPT assumed human form
November 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Meet the playwrights of the next CAST IRON SHORT PLAY NIGHT at @prezedbrighton!

Dave Carley’s stage & radio plays have had over 500 productions across Canada, the United States, and around the world.

Book your tickets via the CAST IRON button in the Linktree above 👆🏼
November 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Virtual Writers' Spaces happen 10 times every single week!

Grab a ticket via the ‘Virtual Writers Space’ button in the LinkTree above 👆🏼for just £3 to drop in - use the code FREE1 at your first session to get a free taster!
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Starts on Tuesday!

Book any one session for £17 or all four for just £55!

CREATING STORY & CHARACTER

New ACTING CLASS coming to HOVE on the 18th and 19th November, then 9th and 16th December.

Find the link in ‘ACTING CLASS’ via the Cast Iron Theatre button in my linktree above 👆🏼
November 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Meet the writers at next weeks Cast Iron Short Play Night!

Nicole Donne is a writer, photographer, filmmaker and comedian based in Brighton & Hove, UK.

Book your tickets via the CAST IRON button in the linktree in the bio above 👆🏼
November 15, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Meet the actors appearing in next weeks Short Play Night!

Patrik Tarin is a Hungarian Actor and Musician fresh from the Isle of Wight. Trained at the University of
Chichester (2024), he has starred in various theatre, tv and immersive works and even has written and performed his own theatre shows.
November 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Still time to book for my new ACTING CLASS coming to HOVE on the 18th and 19th November, then 9th and 16th December.

Improv, devising, script work and more!

£17 per session or £55 for all four!

Find the link in ‘ACTING CLASS’ via the Cast Iron Theatre button in my linktree above 👆🏼
November 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Meet the actors appearing in next weeks Short Play Night!

Mary Gwynn is an actor local to Brighton who graduated the Rose Bruford Foundation course in 2023. She has recently been in a number of productions and short films and has written her own film.
November 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Meet the playwrights of next weeks Cast Iron Short Play Night at Presuming Ed!

Maripat Allen has had full length, one-act, and ten-minute plays produced in
thirteen states, three countries, in various virtual festivals, and a podcast.
November 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
What an absolutely insane year Joe Wilkinson has had
November 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Meet the actors performing at our next CAST IRON SHORT PLAY NIGHT!

Mary Rees performed in the Brighton Festival, in an improvised piece with Operation Antler. It was applauded by The Stage and The Guardian. She has also performed in many online plays on YouTube and a few local ones.
November 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
BOOKING NOW OPEN for the November Short Play Night! 6 brand new plays, performed in the heart of Brighton!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cast-iron-...
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Share yours if you want.

(This is the opening of THE HAUNTING OF GABRIEL CHASE)
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Rewatching Stranger Things and I know we were all saying this the first time around but Winona Ryder is just magnificent
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Apropos of nothing, I recently got to wondering if the person or people who originated the idea of commemorative blue plaques have, themselves blue plaques to remember them.

I am pleased to report:
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Just a few days left to book for my new ACTING CLASS coming to HOVE on the 18th and 19th November, then 9th and 16th December.

Improv, devising, script work and more!

Find the link in ‘ACTING CLASS’ via the Cast Iron Theatre button in my linktree above 👆🏼
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Waiting for a bus on London Bridge.

Photo taken roughly 12 minutes before I left my hat on the bus.
November 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Oh does that mean we get the contractually obligated cameo??
November 8, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Something I don’t see discussed enough in my particular echo chamber is the amount of heavy lifting Cat did for the other two Traitors. No way either one of them would’ve survived as long as they did without her.
November 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
#AmReading #BooksOf2025

The Lonely Londoners | Sam Selvon

‘This really is a miserable city, if it was that we didn’t get together now and then to talk about things back home, we would suffer like hell .. nobody in London does really accept you.’
November 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Your unfinished manuscript when you’ve fired up Netflix again rather than just adding 400 more words
November 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM