 In 1997 he left Brighton for Amsterdam, where he was given the freedom to create and present new work at the theatre in the former COC Amsterdam building on Rozenstraat until its closure in 2007.In 2014 he returned to England and now lives and works again in Brighton from where he has created a series of modern historical gay fiction 'The Nick & Greg Books'.The books chart the lives of two gay teenagers, Nick & Greg, who meet as teens in Brighton in the late 1950s.