Drama Schools & Higher Education Roles

UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER Associate Lecturer (2023-2025) Co-leading final year undergraduate intensive semester-long course on directing for theatre over a two year period.

LAMDA Associate Lecturer (2015-2025) Director and teacher for final year shows and short courses, facilitator for LAMDA Pathways (nationally).

PERFORMERS COLLEGE MANCHESTER (2022-2025) Associate Lecturer leading both undergraduate acting courses and voice courses (lyricism) as well as regularly directing internal shows along with external final year shows for Hip Hop Artistry (Bitch Boxer) and Acting (Love and Information) strands along with lyricism/verse Voice Coach on Macbeth (Hip Hop Artistry).

LEEDS CONSERVATOIRE (2022) Visiting director on two-week ensemble course for Actor Musicians.

NORTHERN SCHOOL OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE (2022) Research Residency with Verve and WPD on dancetheatre piece after Virginia Woolf’s Voyage Out.

SALFORD UNIVERSITY (2017) Associate Lecturer in movement based devising (2022) Director for showcase (Blank by Alice Birch).

MMU FILMMAKING DEPARTMENT(SODA) (2015-2019) Visiting Lecturer on directing actors.

GUILDFORD SCHOOL OF ACTING (2015) co-directing Zoe Lewes and Nick Lloyd Webber’s musical STICKS AND STONES.

Lyricism and hip hop theatre work

Lyricism projects

TIPPING POINT (2015-2020) leading youth justice project, winner of the Deutsche Bank Award for Dramatic Art

NATIONAL THEATRE (2018, 2019) Alternative Musicals: 140bpm (as Co-Director w. Rachael Nanyonjo), Space to Create (as Co-Director w. Rachael Nanyonjo)

NATIONAL THEATRE WALES (2017-2025) Ignition: Fire in the Youth, Dreamscape , Fire in the Youth EP, Our Story EP (as lyricism practitioner)

GATE THEATRE, SYNERGY, ODD ARTS, BRIT SCHOOL Lyricism workshops

WHY FESTIVAL? (FAM; Letter to the PM; Poetry + Politics) Leading talks and workshops

Youth theatre shows

YOUNG EVERYMAN & PLAYHOUSE (2024) (18-25 year olds) A Monster Calls by Sally Cookson and Adam Peck (Director)

STORYHOUSE YOUNG COMPANY (2023) (18-25 year olds) The Trials by Dawn King (Director)

DONMAR WAREHOUSE TAKE THE STAGE (2022) Tender Crush (Co-Director, devised)

OVALHOUSE (2019) At Any One Time Other Than This, You Would Be My Friend by Titilola Dawudu, (Director, new writing)

20 STORIES HIGH 20 Stories of Home (2015) (Director, devised), Gender Re:mixed (2016) (Director, devised)

THE YARD YARDLINGS Transmission Space (2018) R&D (Co-director for R&D w. Ruby Thompson, devised)

CONTACT YOUNG COMPANY Under the Covers (2015) (Director, R&D for Stacy Makishi, devised)

KIDS COMPANY New Writing Showcases at Criterion Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, Jermyn St and Hightide Festival (2015-2017) (Director alongside Dramaturg Zoe Lewis)

Theatre workshops

ROYAL COURT, YOUNG VIC TAKING PART, LAMDA, NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE, COMPANY 3, NATIONAL THEATRE, BLAST THEORY X SCIENCE GALLERY, LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA X HYDROCRACKER, 20 STORIES HIGH national tour with BAC, Corby Cube, Birmingham Old Rep, Dukes Lancaster, Stratford Circus

Training, Mentoring and Masterclasses delivery

NATIONAL THEATRE WALES YOUNG PEOPLE’S RESIDENCY (2022-2023) Co-leading creative residency weekends with Mathilde Lopez

BARBICAN CREATIVE FUTURES (2022) Facilitator inputting to year-long flagship pilot project designing a new ‘Creative Curriculum’

NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE (2022) Facilitator training for Creative Leaders programme

NATIONAL THEATRE (2021-2023) Leading training workshops for Mentor Directors on National Connections programme

NATIONAL YOUTH THEATRE (2020) ‘Directing Shakespeare Masterclass’, Music and Drama Education Expo

NATIONAL THEATRE LEARNING (since 2018) Connections Mentor Director supporting over 50 Connections productions nationally, leading training workshops for Mentor Directors on National Connections programme and writing the 2022 and 2023 Director’s Rehearsal Guide for NT Connections handbook.

NATIONAL THEATRE LEARNING (2019) Let’s Play primary programme, leading directing workshops

NATIONAL THEATRE LEARNING (2018) Drama Teacher Conference, leading directing workshops

NATIONAL THEATRE LEARNING (2018) Young Producers Course, contributing as visiting artist