Ali’s new play A LITTLE NECK has been created with Goat & Monkey, an exciting and innovative company specialising in site-sympathetic promenade work. A LITTLE NECK will bring Hampton Court Palace to life by allowing audiences to experience the downfall of Anne Boleyn. It opens in September 2009.

In 2008, Ali’s play COTTON WOOL was a sell-out hit at Theatre503 in London. Set on the east coast of Scotland, the play is a poetic and mythic story of two teenage brothers who spot their mother’s body floating in the sea.

It was Critics’ Choice in Time Out and described as “poignantly funny” and “grittily poetic and thrillingly imaginative” by The Times.

As well as being selected for the prestigious Berliner Festspiele in 2007, COTTON WOOL has also been produced at Staatsschauspiel Dresden and Theater Csiky Gergely in Romania.

Ali’s play OVERSPILL was one of the winners of Metamorphosis08, a new play competition run by the Churchill Theatre, Bromley. It was performed at the theatre in June 2008 before transferring to Soho Theatre in October. A poetic and explosive thriller, OVERSPILL follows a lads' night out which takes a dramatic and terrifying twist when an explosion rocks the town centre, and a suspicious population points the finger at them.

It was Critics Choice in Time Out, which described it as “a dazzling display of dramatic virtuosity”. The Stage heralded it as “the most exciting piece of new writing in London” and The Guardian called it “a gem”. Critics praised its theatricality and the heightened poetic writing. The Independent said it created a “pulsating rhythm, beautifully attuned to the strutting beat of bravado, the pounding nightmare of paranoia and sudden outbursts of savagery”

His first radio play EIGHT FEET HIGH AND RISING – about a lonely 8ft 6ins giant who befriends a gobby teenager - directed by Jessica Dromgoole for Radio 4’s Afternoon Play was broadcast in December 2008.

Ali's first play PORCELAIN was part of The Royal Court Theatre’s Workers Writes festival in December 2001.

In 2002, Ali was selected to join the UK/Royal Court contingent at the years INTERPLAY Festival in Hungary, featuring the work of 50 emerging writers from across Europe.

The following year, Ali joined the prestigious WILD LUNCH group led by Paines Plough and the resulting work AMERICA STREET - in which a 56 year old 'boy' wrestles with the idea of leaving his 96 year old father, a 137 year old grandmother and the family slaughterhouse to carve a career of his own breeding bonsai pigs in the big city - attracted an audience of 80 to a lunchtime reading. 

Ali is currently working on a new play LA LA LAND created during an attachment at the National Theatre Studio.

Ali is represented by Charlotte Knight