Theatre director and facilitator with theatre-for-social-change expertise, Manchester-based

I create dynamic, moving and richly textured, contemporary theatre for social change. A quality of hybridity is fundamental to my perspective and practice, which crosses conventional boundaries of professional and community theatre to enrich both.

Throughout the varied subject, form and scale of my work is a desire to relate to audiences and/or participants as citizens not consumers, and an invitation to enter into risky conversations within a safe, playful space.

I work as a freelancer, collaborating with venues and companies such as the Royal Exchange, Octagon, Streetwise Opera and Collective Encounters, and as Artistic Director of theatre-for-social-change company Ordinary Glory.

1. Artistic Director

   Ordinary Glory · Feb 2020 - Feb 2023

   Artistic Director of Ordinary Glory, a theatre-for-social-change company based in Greater Manchester.

2. Theatre Director / Assistant Director

   Varied productions including for Royal Exchange Theatre, Bush Theatre, Octagon Theatre Bolton and others · Dec 2014 - Dec 2023

3. Applied Theatre Facilitator

   Freelance · Jul 2012 - Feb 2023

   Work includes workshops, training courses and long term projects with organisations such as Streetwise Opera, Collective Encounters, Finecomb Theatre, Octagon Theatre Bolton, Together 4 Peace, The British Council, Cornerstone Arts Centre, Oxford Playhouse and others.

4. Participation Practitioner

   Octagon Theatre Bolton · Sep 2018 - Jun 2022

5. Marketing and Development Officer (part-time)

   Cornerstone Arts Centre · Jan 2012 - Sep 2015

6. Communications Specialist in the Peace and Conflict sector

   various roles at: Fellowship of Reconciliation, Camden Mediation Services, Relate, Media for Development, Open Air Radio - please see LinkedIn for full details of this career period. · Sep 2001 - Mar 2012

1. Professional Playwriting

   John Retallack Playwrighting Course, Oxford · Sep 2019 - May 2021

   A comprehensive playwriting course run by award-winning playwright, director and artistic director John Retallack. Run over two years, the first year entailed 8 hours weekly training in a small cohort of professional or professionally aspiring playwrights, followed by 8 hours monthly training in year two.

2. A wide ranging variety of CPD workshops and Masterclasses covering a range of skills in directing, writing and producing theatre. Theatre Directing / Writing / Producing

   Various including The Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, HOME Mcr, The Lowry Salford, Independent Theatre Council, The Young Vic, Collective Encounters, Cardboard Citizens, Mountview and The Arvon Foundation · Jan 2014 - Jan 2020

3. Apprenticeship Theatre Directing

   Point Zero Physical Theatre · Sep 2013 - Dec 2014

4. Individual Development Programme Acting

   Core Theatre Lab, Oxford · Sep 2012 - Mar 2013

5. Introductory Level Training Acting and Theatre Skills

   Core Theatre Lab, Oxford · Sep 2011 - Jul 2012

6. MA Caribbean Literature and Creole Poetics

   Goldsmiths College · Sep 2005 - Aug 2006

7. BA Hons African Studies and Study of Religions

   School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) · Sep 1998 - Jul 2001