🎙 Freelance Audio Producer & Storyteller
 🎓 Lecturer (AFHEA), University of Sunderland​​​​​​​
 📻 Dramas & Docs on BBC Radio 4 / 4 Extra

 🎨 Passionate about creative narrative audio
 🥇 New York Radio Awards gold-winning producer & writer
 📖 LGBTQ+ young adult writer

Jay has been teaching at the University of Sunderland since 2015, where he specialises in audio production workshops - drama, documentary, podcasting, and audio journalism.

 📷 Profile photo by Jamie Allison

 🙋‍♂️ 31 years old, he/him
 💍 Engaged to a beautiful man named Kostas
 🐈‍⬛ Cat-dad to Bowser, Daruk, and Riju
 🏡 Sunderland, UK. Originally from Huddersfield
 🌱 Vegan for ethical reasons
 🎮 Nintendo gamer, Legend of Zelda enthusiast
 🎷 Amateur tenor saxophonist
 🇬🇷 Learning Greek (beginner)

Jay specialises in composed feature documentary and “mosaic” structures; using aspects of non-linear narrative construction, interlacing voice, music, and sound-art.

A New York Award-winner for his audio drama ‘SeaBurn’, and an avid reader of queer fiction, Jay is keen to continue developing his writing and production practice in the fictional space. Jay identifies as homoromantic, and yearns to tell stories that resonate with the queer community.

🥇 Gold winner - "Arts & Creative Radio of the Year" - Community Radio Awards 2022
🥇 Gold winner - "Podcast of the Year" - Community Radio Awards 2019
🏅 Finalist - "Best Podcast: Arts and Culture" - New York Radio Awards 2019
🥇 Gold winner - "Community Development Project of the Year - Community Radio Awards 2017
🥇 Gold winner - "Arts & Creative Radio of the Year" - Community Radio Awards 2016
🥇 Gold winner - "Best Student Drama Program" - New York Radio Awards 2015
🥉 Bronze winner - "Best Speech Programming" - Student Radio Awards 2015
🏅 Finalist - "Best Drama Producer" - Radio Production Awards 2015

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