Phil recently won the Rod Hall Memorial Award and currently has a year-long attachment with Paines Plough Theatre Company. He was also chosen as one of the three finalists in the Churchill Theatre's Write Here Right Now 2009 competition.

In 2008, Phil was selected to represent the UK at ‘Interplay Europe’ young playwrights’ festival, held in the Netherlands. The festival culminated in a rehearsed reading of Phil’s play, ADJUSTED.  

Last November, ADJUSTED was the featured play at one of the Institute of Contemporary Arts’ Lab events.

Phil is from Rochdale, Greater Manchester and, after completing an English degree, moved to London to embark upon the Royal Court Theatre’s Young Writers Programme. It was there that, under the direction of Simon Stephens, Phil completed his first full-length play, A Murder of Crows, which was judged to be in the top 10% of the Bruntwood Prize. Phil has also been part of the Soho Theatre’s Young Writers Group and has also been fortunate enough to have won bursaries to work with the Arvon Foundation, where he was treated to the guidance of Robert Holman, David Eldridge, Sarah Woods and Richard Bean. In addition to this, Phil was asked to take part in the highly-acclaimed TAPS Scriptwriters’ Weekend. 

To make ends meet, Phil has worked a miscellany of jobs: from making and erecting gravestones, to being a cheese packer in the Clwydian hills of North Wales. Presently, Phil is working as an English teacher in a secondary school for boys with emotional and behavioural problems in Peckham.

Phil is represented by Tanya Tillett