Luke Aldridge
After spending the first 14 years of his life writing stories, drawing monsters and wanting to go into movie prosthetics, his love of music finally took over. He spent over 20 years performing, teaching, examining, composing and arranging, gaining a degree from the London College of Music and a postgrad in Jazz & Studio Music from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama on the way. Highlights include conducting at the Royal Albert Hall, touring Europe and playing a wedding reception in a scout hut. Thanks to arthritis he was retired from music making at 40 so he ran a pop-up cinema for a bit & started writing stories again.
As a massive movie geek, he enrolled on the Screenwriting Masters at the MetFilm School based at Ealing studios, graduating in 2020. Halfway through the course the lifelong comic fan in him realised that he’d rather write comic books & kids stories. They’re a lot more fun.
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After a couple of years working as a writer he also returned to instrumental music teaching and directing ensembles.
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He loves to write all kinds of stories across all mediums, from comic books to feature films, animation to tv, kids books to audio plays. You can find his comic books at PBC Comics and hear some of his twisted poems and short stories on the Podtime Stories podcast. Read by stars of stage and screen some are accompanied by artwork, others by an original soundtrack. The project was put together with friends old & new.
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When not watching movies, playing with Lego, stroking his plush & luxurious beard or writing about himself in the third person, he is dad to two who keep him young of heart & rather silly & a pair of cats that keep his feet warm at night.
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"Colourful, expressive dialogue with a very readable way of providing exposition. " - Alexis Kirk, Director of the London International Screenwriting Festival.
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"He’s an animated storyteller and he’s very sharp and funny." - Tony Orster, Orster Media.
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"'e's a good geeza." - Tony Esmund, Tribute Press/ The Awesome Comics Podcast.
"I like your notebook." - Tom Williams, Writer of Chalet Girl & Kajaki.
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