Play, Pasty, Pint: We Only Want To Get Drunk

Bill Eaton

Bill had a career in journalism before moving to Devon some 25 years ago. Very much a part-time writer, he completed a Masters degree in Creative Writing at Plymouth University in 2012 and has gone on to have short stories published and several short plays performed.  

John Baker

Although now based in London, John Baker is a Devon bauy. Born in Pinhoe, attended comprehensive school in Exeter, and was in the Northcott Youth Theatre before training to be an actor. Under the stage name of John Gregor he has worked in theatre, TV, film and voice-over. He has co-written an outdoor play for Bristol City Council “The History of Bristol in Twenty Minutes” and has written short pieces performed in museums and exhibition galleries, and training sketches for businesses. Snakebite And Black is his first produced play. A trade union activist, John is part of Equity Class Network, a group challenging the class biases in the entertainment industry and raising awareness of working class talent.

Nicola Masters

Nicola is a writer based in Hayle in Cornwall. Having started her career as part of the Soho Theatre comedy lab in London she went on to create the award-winning parody musical 'The Miserables'. She is the author of two novels, Happy Happy Happy (2022) and Ready For It (2023). Most recently she has been working on a play inspired by the life of the artist Alfred Wallis, which she is hoping to produce in 2025. Instagram: @nicolamasterss

Will Kemp

Will Kemp is a writer, musician and creative leader based in Plymouth. He holds an MA in Comparative Literature from Goldsmiths College and has written two plays for radio, including a comic history called Brutus of Troy for Soundart Radio and Champagne Chrysanthemum, broadcast on Ocean City Radio. 

Juliana Dart

Juliana completed her BA (Hons )in Theatre at Dartington. After travelling throughout Russia and China she trained as a theatre director at Bristol Old Vic theatre school. She has directed work at Theatre Royal Plymouth, the Barbican and the Bristol Old Vic. Her theatre work – as a performer, director and writer – has always sat alongside her work in social care. She has trained and worked as an addiction counsellor, within a forensic psychiatry unit and most recently caring for people with complex dementia in the community.