theatre maker, director, writer
I'm a Bristol based theatre maker and occasional poet. I'm interested in work that interrogates the relationship between performance and audience, that messes about with authority and authenticity, and is about the here and now. I also work as a freelance director and as a script reader for The Royal Court.
Work in development includes: Big Cat (being developed with Bristol Old Vic's Ferment for 2019/20).
I'm an MGC Futures Bursary Award Winner, a former Resident Assistant Director at The Abbey Theatre (National Theatre of Ireland), Associate Director with The Michael Grandage Company, Resident Artist at Boundless and Creative Associate at The Gate. I was a JMK Finalist in 2015, trained at RADA and have a first in English from Trinity College Dublin.
I also design and make stained glass windows a bit, facilitate peer support groups for mental health charity Changes Bristol and am nuts about wildlife. I've been a contributor to BBC Radio 4's Tweet of the Day which is one of my favourite things.
As Theatre Maker
My Body Welsh
Keralan Literature Festival & National Museum of Modern Art Mumbai (Jan 2019), International Theatre Festival of Kerala (India - Jan 2018), Welsh Tour (Jan 2017) including Chapter Arts, Theatr Clwyd, Pontio, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Riverfront Newport
Gutted
UK Tour (Nov 2018 - including York Theatre Royal, Theatr Clwyd, Lighthouse Poole, Square Chapel Arts, Theatre Deli Sheffield and more), HOME Manchester co-production (May 2016, July 2017), Pleasance Edinburgh (Fringe Festival August 2017), European Ostomy Conference (Denmark, Oct 2017), Camden People's Theatre (Sick of the Fringe Festival 2017), Oxford Playhouse (Offbeat Festival, June 2016), UK Tour of Hospitals (Nov 2016)
A Very British Bird Show
Pegasus Theatre (May-June 2017)
Five Tins and a Matter of Time
The Yard NOW '15 Festival (June 2015)
Nowadays with Sonar
Zaal 3, Theater Aan Het Spui (The Hague, Nov 2014)
Nucking Futs after Woyzeck
The Tramshed, Woolwich (June 2014)
Political Me: Apology Songs
Arcola Theatre (Feb 2014), Camden People's Theatre (Sprint March 2013)
Underhero
Camden People's Theatre (July 2012)
As Director
Our Burials
a new play by Adam Barnard, Tristan Bates Theatre (May 2019) Chichester University Acting BA Students
The Consecration of the Bishop
a new short play by Tim Crouch, The Young Vic (April 2015), supported by The Jerwood Assistant Director's Programme
That Face
a play by Polly Stenham, The Landor (Nov-Dec 2013)
The Bomb: A Partial History
The Tricycle (Feb-April 2012), Ten new plays making up two separate evenings of performance. Co-directed with Nicolas Kent.
If You Really Love Me
devised around a text by Mark Leiren-Young, 2012, ALRA & Company of Angels
dirty butterfly
a play by debbie tucker green, 2011, RADA
Paper Boy & Friends
by Shaun Dunne, 2010, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
Asylum Speakers
2009, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, in association with iceandfire
As Associate / Assistant
Titus Andronicus
2014, Shakespeare's Globe, Dir. Lucy Bailey
A Midsummer Night's Dream
2013, West End, Dir. Michael Grandage
Dances of Death
2013, The Gate, Dir. Tom Littler
Bandages
2013, Dir. Kirsty Housley
The Plough & The Stars
Christ Deliver Us! after Wedekind
2010, The Abbey Theatre, Dir. Wayne Jordan
No Worst There Is None
2009, Dublin Theatre Festival, Dir. Dylan Tighe