My Details

Current Work Details

What I do: Writer
Website: www.stephenpotts.net
Where I work: I am an individual working from home
Technical Skills: Writer of published novels, prize-winning stage plays, screenplays, and radio drama
Resources / Expertise: Day job:doctor - psychiatrist working in busy general hospital, knowledge of A&E, suicide attempts, transplant & dialysis procedures. Also knowledge of sailing, maritime history.
Availability: Paid Work or Collaboration

Films I wish I had made: Baz Luhrman: Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare in Love, Memento, Sexy Beast, Chinatown
I cried watching: In the Mood for Love, The English Patient
I left the cinema during: 1984
Directors I love: Robert Altman, Anthony Minghella
Actors I admire: Ian Bannen, Helen Mirren, Peter Mullen, Bill Nighy, Ralph Fiennes, Judy Dench, Nicole Kidman
Writers I respect: Anthony Minghella, Aaron Sorkin, Tom Stoppard, Robert Towne, William Goldman, Stephen King,
My desert island discs: Everything by Spiritualised, Everything by Tindersticks
Books I have given my friends: House of God, Compass Murphy, The Old Man and The Sea
My death row meal: I don't think I'd be hungry
The best thing I own: My dogs (but ownership's not the right word)
More about me: I'm a doctor, now working part time to write