Tomorrow Drifter, set in Liverpool, England, one New Year’s Eve, tells the story of Billy Lowe, an 18 year old who, having just dropped out of university, has been kicked out of his home for the day. He goes to spend the evening with his best friend, Eddie Webster. Eddie, also 18, is a slacker who sits around jobless, smoking weed and playing video games all day long. The play follows the pair as they spend New Year’s Eve together, getting high at a party and confronting some long lost demons that have come back to haunt them both over the past year.

A keen filmgoer, the writer, Jack McLoughlin is also a director and producer, based in Liverpool, although born and raised in Kirkby. His imagination was evident as a boy when he enjoyed creating comic books, and it was watching Slumdog Millionaire when he was twelve that set him on his current path. Previously he thought that it was only Americans who made films, but when he found out that the director was Danny Boyle from Greater Manchester, he thought: If he can do it, why can't I?

He started out in the industry as a Floor Runner, working on many sets, including Peaky Blinders, and Yesterday, where he actually met director Danny Boyle. Jack said: ‘It was quite surreal—I told him he was my inspiration, to which Danny replied, encouragingly, “Just keep going with your work.”’ It felt like a full circle moment for Jack.

It was in 2019, in his final year at university while wondering what he was going to do next, that he wrote his first feature film, Kate and Jake, a coming-of-age drama set in Liverpool. Encouraged by friends, but thwarted by Covid at the time, he set about raising money for the project by enlisting the help of the fund-raising site, Indiegogo, as well as holding raffles, with alcohol being a popular prize during lockdown.

His determination paid off and the film was finally released this year on Amazon Prime.  But Jack was not resting on his laurels–he felt that this was just the start of his filmmaking career, saying: ‘I feel like I'm only just getting underway and I've still got a long way to go.  I've been very fortunate in that things are starting to get more noticed… but there's still a lot more work for me to do.’

In 2022, Jack’s short film, Bud, starring Shaun Fagan (Boiling Point) was shown at the BFI Future Film Festival where Jack also received nomination for Best Writer. He has recently completed a behind the scenes documentary about the making of the BBC series, Boiling Point.

Since his mid-teens, Jack has also had a passion for the theatre so, with great reviews for his films and his fame is spreading, Tomorrow’s Drifter, the first play he has written, is bound to attract to a full house, so early booking is recommended!

Covered by; James Walker

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