I have been wholeheartedly engaged with the theatre all my life.
After training originally as an actor and later as a voice coach, including an apprenticeship at the RSC,
my work focused increasingly on directing.
I reached a point of self-evaluation and decided to study for the MFA in Theatre Directing at Birkbeck College which I was awarded in 2017 with distinction.
My training included a year at Sheffield Crucible assisting on main house plays including the multi award-winning musical ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ which I associate directed for Nimax at the Apollo Theatre, West End 2017-21.
I also directed NT Connections play 'Musical Differences' in the Crucible Studio Theatre and co-directed ‘4x15’, an initiative to support local writers.
I directed my own adaptation of Lorca's ‘Blood Wedding’ for Omnibus Theatre in September 2018 and a multi-Offie nominated version of Peter Gill’s ‘Small Change’ for the same theatre in Autumn 2021 after lockdown postponement. I was Head of Performance at ALRA South throughout the pandemic where I directed Christopher Shinn’s epic ‘Against’ and am now Centre Lead for Rose Bruford College where I recently directed Caryl Churchill’s ‘Love and Information’ with 31 wonderful graduating actors.
Collaborating in a joyful, passionate way and enabling everyone to find their voice in the room is at the core of my work.
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