ABOUT
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I Gave Him An Orchid, photo by Robin
I’m a theatre maker, director, dramaturg, and educator. I create cross-disciplinary theatre, performance, and film that is personal, political, and experimental. My work explores and challenges power structures, subverts the status quo, and seeks to debunk and re-imagine dominant narratives.
Straddling genres and forms, I work with movement, text, clown, and documentary and non-fiction forms. Image-led and physically and spatially inspired, my work is subversive and rebellious, playful and mischievous, intimate and epic. It draws on personal experience, classic and mythical stories, and the world around us—a mash-up of the recognisable and the surreal, the mundane and the epic.
I’m interested in making work, and engaging in processes, outside of traditional spaces and forms. Increasingly, I explore space-, place-, and people-responsive practices, as well as co-creation models. I’m particularly interested in placing documentary and non-fiction within theatrical frameworks, and vice versa.
My work is mischievous, non-linear, and experimental. I’m interested in challenging and expanding forms and performance languages, and in actively engaging audiences.
I support and mentor artists and companies to develop original work as a director, dramaturg and movement director.
As an educator, I teach ensemble practice, devising, interdisciplinary practice, movement and puppetry.