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
https://linktr.ee/andrewallen
https://linktr.ee/andrewallen
Clearing the decks from the last Cast Iron Short Play Night and preparing for 2026 - lots planned: more short plays, acting classes, and improv drop ins - you in?
For now tho it’s an Acting Class tonight, working on duologues the actors themselves have penned …
For now tho it’s an Acting Class tonight, working on duologues the actors themselves have penned …
December 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Clearing the decks from the last Cast Iron Short Play Night and preparing for 2026 - lots planned: more short plays, acting classes, and improv drop ins - you in?
For now tho it’s an Acting Class tonight, working on duologues the actors themselves have penned …
For now tho it’s an Acting Class tonight, working on duologues the actors themselves have penned …
Have you seen that the latest @ironclad-creative.bsky.social
short story competition is open?
We are looking for short stories up to 6,000 words responding in any way to the prompt:
RESERVED
More details on our website!
www.ironcladcreative.org/shortstoryco...
short story competition is open?
We are looking for short stories up to 6,000 words responding in any way to the prompt:
RESERVED
More details on our website!
www.ironcladcreative.org/shortstoryco...
December 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Have you seen that the latest @ironclad-creative.bsky.social
short story competition is open?
We are looking for short stories up to 6,000 words responding in any way to the prompt:
RESERVED
More details on our website!
www.ironcladcreative.org/shortstoryco...
short story competition is open?
We are looking for short stories up to 6,000 words responding in any way to the prompt:
RESERVED
More details on our website!
www.ironcladcreative.org/shortstoryco...
Advent Calendar of Things That Bring Me Joy, Day 1
Clue (1985) Somehow the first thing I saw Madeline Khan in. Has influenced me to the degree that when I wrote Four Play,
Clue (1985) Somehow the first thing I saw Madeline Khan in. Has influenced me to the degree that when I wrote Four Play,
December 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Advent Calendar of Things That Bring Me Joy, Day 1
Clue (1985) Somehow the first thing I saw Madeline Khan in. Has influenced me to the degree that when I wrote Four Play,
Clue (1985) Somehow the first thing I saw Madeline Khan in. Has influenced me to the degree that when I wrote Four Play,
Tom Stoppard.
1937 - 2025
1937 - 2025
November 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Tom Stoppard.
1937 - 2025
1937 - 2025
No Cast Iron Acting Class this week - but we return for the last two sessions of the year on Tuesday 9 December & Tuesday 16 December! Still some spaces left, and it’s been a great stack of sessions so far!
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November 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
No Cast Iron Acting Class this week - but we return for the last two sessions of the year on Tuesday 9 December & Tuesday 16 December! Still some spaces left, and it’s been a great stack of sessions so far!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/andrew-all...
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Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched #BabyDriver #TheMummy #CivilWar #WakeUpDeadMan #AKnivesOutMystery
November 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched #BabyDriver #TheMummy #CivilWar #WakeUpDeadMan #AKnivesOutMystery
Heading out into town to do some work, some of which involves writing. Which would be fine, except I’m pretty sure one of my contact lenses is beginning a slow journey around the back of my eyeball
November 28, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Heading out into town to do some work, some of which involves writing. Which would be fine, except I’m pretty sure one of my contact lenses is beginning a slow journey around the back of my eyeball
At one of the games this week, I hosted two best friends - one a estate agent, the other a undertaker, which gave me the opportunity to ‘spontaneously’ come up with a great Nora Ephron line from When Harry Met Sally which doesn’t get quoted as much as the other great Nora Ephron lines (1/2)
November 27, 2025 at 9:44 AM
At one of the games this week, I hosted two best friends - one a estate agent, the other a undertaker, which gave me the opportunity to ‘spontaneously’ come up with a great Nora Ephron line from When Harry Met Sally which doesn’t get quoted as much as the other great Nora Ephron lines (1/2)
Prepping classes - writing, improv, and acting - for 2026, while clearing the decks for the next couple of @cast_iron_btn short play nights.
I’m not gonna think too deeply about how few days are left in this year.
I’m not gonna think too deeply about how few days are left in this year.
November 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Prepping classes - writing, improv, and acting - for 2026, while clearing the decks for the next couple of @cast_iron_btn short play nights.
I’m not gonna think too deeply about how few days are left in this year.
I’m not gonna think too deeply about how few days are left in this year.
The doors are now open for the latest @ironclad-creative.bsky.social Creative Short Story Competition!
Cash prizes & publication await!
Deadline 31st January 2026
www.ironcladcreative.org/shortstoryco...
Cash prizes & publication await!
Deadline 31st January 2026
www.ironcladcreative.org/shortstoryco...
November 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The doors are now open for the latest @ironclad-creative.bsky.social Creative Short Story Competition!
Cash prizes & publication await!
Deadline 31st January 2026
www.ironcladcreative.org/shortstoryco...
Cash prizes & publication await!
Deadline 31st January 2026
www.ironcladcreative.org/shortstoryco...
Three more sessions of my new ACTING CLASS coming to HOVE on the 25th of November(TONIGHT!) , then 9th and 16th December.
Improv, devising, script work and more!
Check out the CAST IRON button in the Linktree above 👆🏼
Improv, devising, script work and more!
Check out the CAST IRON button in the Linktree above 👆🏼
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Three more sessions of my new ACTING CLASS coming to HOVE on the 25th of November(TONIGHT!) , then 9th and 16th December.
Improv, devising, script work and more!
Check out the CAST IRON button in the Linktree above 👆🏼
Improv, devising, script work and more!
Check out the CAST IRON button in the Linktree above 👆🏼
Writers of Bluesky! What are you working on at the moment? I’ve got about four ongoing projects uh, ongoing at the moment, but that hasn’t stopped me sketching out early ideas for a youth theatre play I’ll be working on next summer.
November 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Writers of Bluesky! What are you working on at the moment? I’ve got about four ongoing projects uh, ongoing at the moment, but that hasn’t stopped me sketching out early ideas for a youth theatre play I’ll be working on next summer.
Not many #ghostwalks left this year! Can you brace the cold and rain tonight?
Meets outside the Druids Head at 7.30pm - no need to book: £12 / £10 / £8
Meets outside the Druids Head at 7.30pm - no need to book: £12 / £10 / £8
November 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Not many #ghostwalks left this year! Can you brace the cold and rain tonight?
Meets outside the Druids Head at 7.30pm - no need to book: £12 / £10 / £8
Meets outside the Druids Head at 7.30pm - no need to book: £12 / £10 / £8
November 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched #TheShining #TheBraveOne #TheRunningMan #BabyDriver
November 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched #TheShining #TheBraveOne #TheRunningMan #BabyDriver
‘‘tis the time of year .. to be planning stuff for next year.
We’ve got the next @cast_iron_btn Short Play Night fixing a date (submission window details coming up soon), fun drop in improv sessions, more focused acting classes, and more!
What are you interested in?
We’ve got the next @cast_iron_btn Short Play Night fixing a date (submission window details coming up soon), fun drop in improv sessions, more focused acting classes, and more!
What are you interested in?
November 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
‘‘tis the time of year .. to be planning stuff for next year.
We’ve got the next @cast_iron_btn Short Play Night fixing a date (submission window details coming up soon), fun drop in improv sessions, more focused acting classes, and more!
What are you interested in?
We’ve got the next @cast_iron_btn Short Play Night fixing a date (submission window details coming up soon), fun drop in improv sessions, more focused acting classes, and more!
What are you interested in?
We staged six brand new plays from across the world at the November Edition of the CAST IRON SHORT PLAY NIGHT at @prezedbrighton last night!
Follow for updates on Acting Courses, Improv Classes, Short Play Nights and more!
Follow for updates on Acting Courses, Improv Classes, Short Play Nights and more!
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
We staged six brand new plays from across the world at the November Edition of the CAST IRON SHORT PLAY NIGHT at @prezedbrighton last night!
Follow for updates on Acting Courses, Improv Classes, Short Play Nights and more!
Follow for updates on Acting Courses, Improv Classes, Short Play Nights and more!
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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 👆🏼
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
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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 👆🏼
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 👆🏼
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
Every Christmas, the city of Brighton & Hove come together to celebrate the 1974 Doctor Who story ‘Planet Of The Spiders’
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.
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
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.
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.
Meet the playwrights of this Wednesday’s SHORT PLAY NIGHT from Cast Iron Theatre at @prezedbrighton!
November 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Meet the playwrights of this Wednesday’s SHORT PLAY NIGHT from Cast Iron Theatre at @prezedbrighton!
If Chat GPT assumed human form
November 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
If Chat GPT assumed human form