Chips Hardy is a British Comedy Award winner and has produced and written for television and the theatre. He was born in 1950 in Ealing, London. He went to Cambridge, and threw himself into The Very Modern Novel, Situationism as well as more established university theatrical productions. In 1972 he flirted with BBC Drama and subsequently veered off, into advertising. He is now international Creative Director for JWT. Hardy's screenplay Acts of Charity is in development. A play, Blue on Blue, which was showcased at the Latchmere Theatre by Shotgun is soon to go on a national tour.