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I'm a theatre director, writer and collaborator working between London, Bristol and Rotterdam. I make collaborative work that invites its audience to play. I particularly enjoy making work with live music, working with comedy and making work for young audiences. I’ve worked extensively internationally, in countries including the Netherlands, Canada, India, China and South Africa.

I lead Bucket Club, a produced company at Farnham Maltings whose work I write and direct. Shows include Lorraine & Alan, Fossils, Launch Party, Catch That Beast! and most recently Five Children and It, the Christmas show for The Egg, Theatre Royal Bath. We’ve won the Brighton Fringe Award for Excellence and a Musical Theatre Network Award for Innovation and toured the UK and to Brits Off Broadway.

I work often with the HandleBards, making outdoor, four woman clown versions of plays including The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet that tour by bike. I’ve directed new writing by writers including Marietta Kirkbride and Sabrina Mahfouz.

I’ve been a BBC Performing Arts Fund Fellow, where I was Director in Residence at Tobacco Factory Theatres for a year. I’ve worked as an assistant director at the Young Vic and the RSC and was recently a Resident Director at the Almeida.

I’ve taught and directed at drama schools like Drama Studio, Bristol Old Vic and Central. I’m a National Theatre Connections director and a facilitator with the Old Vic.

Next things:
Directing A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the HandleBards.
Directing Peter Pan with Slapstick Picnic.
Writing and directing a new Christmas show for Farnham Maltings with Bucket Club.
Working with Claire Gaydon to develop her show Piece of Me for Camden People’s Theatre.