Directed A SLEEP OF PRISONERS (Christopher Fry) at Malvern College Chapel, to launch the successful campaign to save Malvern Festival Theatre.

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Co-directed members of the Royal Shakespeare Company in pot-pourri of Shakespeare scenes, Moscow University, USSR.

Associate Director, Derby Playhouse. Directed ROPE (Hamilton) and TIME AND TIME AGAIN (Ayckbourn).

Joined the Drama Panel of Eastern Arts Association (until 1986).
Joined the Board of the Wells Centre, Norfolk (until 1986). Directed HUIS CLOS (Sartre) at Wells Centre Norfolk.

Directed Sheila Reid and John Ashton in LOVE AMONG THE BUTTERFLIES (Fountaine/Burrell) at Cochrane Theatre London, on tour and at official Edinburgh Festival.

Joined the Board of Tiebreak Touring Theatre Ltd as Company Secretary (till 2004).

Directed WAY IN, WAY OUT (Burrell) at St Ivo Centre, St Ives.  Joint director on VOICES, a play by prison inmates, performed by members of the London Shakespeare Workout Prison Project in the Clore Studio, Royal Opera House. Regular member of the LSW Prison Project team, working with inmates at many prisons and Youth Offending Institutions. 
Produced  Wisbech’s Jubilee Event, a concert in the Market Place, commencing with flag-raising by the Lord Lieutenant assisted by local Army Cadets, with entertainment by dancing groups, several bands including the Temperance Seven, hosted by Steve Somers, and concluding with a superb firework display. Produced the now annual rock and pop concert in Wisbech Park and programmed/produced other community arts events. Appointed Honorary President, Peterhouse Heywood Society. 

Worked with three groups of teenagers to produce five dramatic pieces which were then given rehearsed readings at the Play Room, Cambridge, as part of the Shell Connecting Voices project; worked with the Bowthorpe Writers Group producing a recital programme of their work in Wisbech and Cambridge; all of these projects being for the Arts Theatre, Cambridge.  
Directed PRIME TIME MURDER (Burrell) for tour by O.A.R.S.;  directed WITS END, a programme of pieces by the Algonquin Set (Dorothy Parker, Ogden Nash etc), starring Susan Flannery and Michael Lunts, for national and international touring;  later directed TEDDY TWINDLETAIL TALKS FOR ENGLAND (Strickland) for tour of Norfolk venues.  Appointed Arts Worker for Whittlesey and programmed the year’s community arts events for the town, as he continued to do for Wisbech, as Chairman of the Events Forum. 

Produced interactive playlets on bullying and sexual harassment for Carrie Herbert Consultancy. Further work for Carrie Herbert Consultancy on racial intimidation and on disability.  Again working with Phoenix Writers from the Bowthorpe Centre, Wisbech on new writing and further public recitals. 
Directed FOUR SCORE YEARS - AND THEN!  a community show to celebrate 80th anniversary of Cambridgeshire ACRE, at Ramsey Rural Museum  and the Maltings, Ely. Resigned, after eighteen years, as Company Secretary of Tiebreak Theatre Company.

Working for Carrie Herbert Consultancy.  Ran a series of three writing workshops for MIND in March, Cambridgeshire. 
Directed THE FEN TREASURE SURPRISE! (Burrell) for performances at Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds and the Angles Theatre, Wisbech.
Directed KINGS AND LIBERTIES (Burrell)  for performances in the Town Hall and the Commemoration Hall, Huntingdon as part of the celebrations to mark the 800th anniversary of the Town’s Charter. A scene from it welcomed Princess Anne on her visit to the town later in the year.