Things are terrifically busy at the moment though I maintain that the most successful people I know never seem busy and that "busy" is a state of mind. Therefore being busy is not my aim as an artist. The agents whom I work with are primarily defenders of creativity. Stopping the artist  engaging with the market as a marketeer so that he can concentrate on  the art is paramount. Secondly they can suggest and enable direction for he creative product.  They are vital.

I have a new live gigs agent. Her name is Ruth Hay and she works four days a week for The Hay Festival.  I don’t need anyone to go find me any bookings. I  needed someone to deal with the tidal flow of enquiries which come in. This could be an enquiry from a theatre in cape town or a library on the isle of wight,  The Big Chill festival or a reading in a pie shop in Stoke called Pie Minister. Ruth has been with me for a few months now and it seems to be working out well.

Gil Lloyd of Artsadmin is my projects manager and she is also executive producer at Artsadmin a highly respected production company that has been around for twenty years and is based in east London near where I live. Large projects include commissions for plays, public art commissions and some tours.  But I have just parted company with my literary agent who moved from Sheiland Associates and my broadcast agent whose role changed at William Morris Associates.  It’s the first time I have been without broadcast or literary agent for some years and it feels like being sort of naked.