about

I direct plays! Most recently a cabaret-clowning show about grappling with the vastness of endings with the Hotter Project and a show about a trans teenager coming of age that uses projection to explore 20th century horror iconography and its queer importance with Pete Machale and the Bristol Old Vic. 

 

The former has played at the Roundabout, Edinburgh Fringe, The Yard, London and Bristol Old Vic. It's then touring to Manchester and Vienna. The latter was part of the Ferment scheme at Bristol Old Vic and will tour in 2025. 

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I also work with young people! The process of theatre is as important as the product and it is all about playfulness, silliness and devising. This has included co-Associate Director for targeted work at the Lyric Hammersmith, Associate Director at the Big House, NT Mentor Director for National Theatre Connections and directing for the London Youth Theatre.

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I believe theatre is an important vehicle for social change. What we do is political! It is also about collective experience and community in an increasingly atomised time. In an entertainment-saturated age, I believe theatre is an important antagonist to all the telly we watch: I want it to be strange, anti-capitalist, political, provocative, make people go 'HUH?', be experimental in form...

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To that end the work I make likes to flit between cabaret, music, dance, performance art, clowning, caring, and is often interested in themes of the body, desire, gender-nonconformity and most importantly being a bit SILLY and WEIRD where we can...

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