Tony is a writer and film-maker, born in Ponteland, Northumberland. Just a Trim won a Sony Radio Award and earned him the title of BBC North Playwright of the Year.

Irene's Story, a film about bi-polar disorder, won a Millenium Award. His film Posh Monkeys won a Royal Television Society award and the IAC International Film & Video Festival Gold Seal Award. It was promoted by the British Council at the Angers, Munich, BAFTA, BP Expo and New York film festivals. Stage plays include Chase Me I'm Chocolate, Slappers (staged at the Unity Theatre, Liverpool) and The Stars that Surround Us (staged by Cloud Nine Theatre Company at Newcastle Playhouse). Sticky Fingers won the People's Play award and was staged at the People's Theatre.

Recent work includes Year of the Tiger, filmed by Wildcat Films for Yorkshire Tyne Tees; What We Did In the War, a book about the wartime memories of the people of Darlington; and I Want My Baby, devised and produced with young people from Greenfield Arts Centre in Newton Aycliffe, which recently won an Impetus Award.

Email: tonyglover11@mac.com