Neal is a freelance writer interested in the relationship between sound and the written word. He has worked on 24-hour playwriting projects in Belfast, community and school theatre projects in Berlin, and has previously undertaken two longer writing projects funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. He is currently completing a PhD at the University of Roehampton where his research is looking at experimental ways in which writing can be combined with field-recordings. His forthcoming work, in collaboration with Surrey Hills Arts, is an installation of sound recordings and prose-poems along an eight km section of the North Downs Way.