Recent Projects

2023 

July - Slackline Productions: Sister, Sister by Esohe Uwadiae, as part of Slackline Sleepover - 6 new short plays, written & rehearsed in 24 hours. All with at least one strong central role for women over 35. Joint winner of the 'Audience Choice' for further development.

June - East 15 Acting School: The Love of the Nightingale - MA/MFA Acting (International) Timberlake Wertenbaker's re-framing of the Greek Philomele & Procne myth from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'. 

[Production photographs in Gallery]

2022/2023 

Mum Thumb - first developmental sharing of Judith Silver's play with music exploring a journey through dementia

East 15 Acting School - Visiting acting tutor & director working with students on the art of story-telling and introductions to Shakespeare and classic text through scene study

The Unravelling [Fin Kennedy]; Cymbeline

Queens Theatre Hornchurch - QYouth director & tutor

July 2022: Never Never - brand new  original youth musical, written by James Watson & Andrew Linham. Using the full QYouth membership, aged from 6-18, directing team drawn from regular tutors, with choreography by Sundeep Saini

2020/2021 - during COVID-19 restrictions, safe distancing and Lockdown...

• The Tiny Plays Project, including Tiny Telephone Plays - Queens Theatre Hornchurch, online and telephone based participatory playmaking/writing sessions to inspire 10 line plays [ongoing, currently] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0dViL-nPOI 

• The Sharon and Tracey Project: celebrating Essex Women  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIoZJjISX7c 

• Simon Stephens' 'PORNOGRAPHY': directed via Zoom during the COVID-19 Lockdown [April-June] with MA/MFA International students at East 15 Acting School. The online performance was streamed live

2020 - pre-COVID-19 pandemic

• Hattie Naylor's 'The Marxist in Heaven' - QYC, Queens Theatre Hornchurch. Part of NT Connections

September 2018 - August 2019

'As You Like It', Assistant Director & Project Associate [National Theatre Public Acts] - Queens Theatre Hornchurch

In addition...

2018 -'Widows' - Ariel Dorfman [East 15 Acting School, Cert. H.E]

2018 - 'Not A Game for Girls' - Benjamin Peel [Guildford School of Acting, BA Acting]

2017 - 'Front' - Robert Caisley, [Guildford School of Acting, BA Acting] 

2016 - 'The Calm' - Ethan Taylor [Who Said Theatre - Edinburgh Fringe, London & Cardiff]

2016 - 'Merchant of Venice' - adapted by Ashley Joseph [Studio 3 Arts: Assistant Director]

2015 - 'The Mill on the Floss' - Helen Edmundson [Guildford School of Acting, BA Acting]

Participatory projects:

2018/19 - As You Like It: Project Associate creating and delivering workshops with members of the community groups taking part in National Theatre Public Acts at the Queens Theatre Hornchurch

2017/2018 - The Write Stage: mentor to writer as part of Extant's new writing project 

2016 - Spirit of Resistance: Project Director/facilitator on Extant's inter-generational participatory project