Current Projects:
Free Theatre Workshops for Migrant Women, participatory theatre project addressing language barriers and exploring identity and what it means to be a woman in different cultures.
Lead Artist & Director | in partnership with Borderlands, co-commissioned by Counterpoints Arts for Platforma Festival. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Future Laboratory, project of research residences throughout Europe to identify missing narratives on our stages, with a focus on social inclusion.
Artist
Many Minds (mental health and performance charity) series of workshops and performance exploring members' connection to Bristol and public spaces in the city.
Director/Facilitator
Previous Experience:
Orpheus and Eurydice, Big Community Show retelling the Greek myth, in an epic journey into the underbelly of Bristol and beyond, by a cast of over 100 people.
Assistant/Associate Director | Bristol Old Vic | 2023
Developing Your Creative Practice, grant supporting professional development, focussing on access & inclusive practice, upskilling, networking, creating own projects & scaling up my work.
Arts Council England | 2022-2023
Light Up School Learning, working with Bristol primary schools and supporting teachers to explore how drama-based learning can develop language, speech and emotional literacy, support wellbeing and address inequality of opportunity which affects educational outcomes. Travelling Light Theatre Company
Artist | Travelling Light Theatre Company | 2021-2023
PROJEKT ELEVATE, commission to develop an idea for co-created work with local communities, in a collaboration with Royal & Derngate (Northampton).
Artist | Projekt Europa | 2022
Social Skills Agency, using Drama to help young people with Autism Spectrum Disorder develop skills such as emotional vocabulary, self-awareness and social communication.
Co-Facilitator | Social Skills Agency | 2021-2022
Meadows to Meaders, community soap opera exploring real stories of living and growing up in Southmead, a Bristol inter-war council estate. Myers-Insole Local Learning CIC
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Episode 3: Love on the Mead
Facilitator & Assistant Director | 2019-2022, Greenway Centre
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Episode 4: Southmead Cares (radio play)
Director | 2021-2022, BBC Radio Bristol
Story Sharings in BS4 and BS11, working with the playback group Breathing Fire and two communities - Knowle West and Lawrence Weston - to create forum theatre pieces, shared in both areas at the end of the workshop series.
Artist | Many Minds | 2022
Looked After R&D, devised piece exploring the experiences of foster carers and care professionals who support unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the UK.
Co-Director | Lightbox Theatre | 2022
I've been waiting ..., a sound journey devised by people with experiences of mental ill-health, exploring their experiences of Nature during lockdown.
Assistant Director | Many Minds | 2021, Bristol Old Vic & The Theatre on the Downs
Creative Summer School, a week-long workshop creating a devised performance inspired by young people’s experiences of lockdown, shared with an in-person audience and via livestream.
Co-Facilitator | Bristol Old Vic & Many Minds | 2021
A Fine Balance, exhibition and performances telling the story of Carlos Trower, who escaped slavery to become one of the world’s greatest tight rope walkers and used this platform to promote the emancipation of enslaved people.
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Short film by pupils from inner-city primary school
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Performance by David Ellington and Sula Gleeson, with integrated BSL interpretation
Co-Director | Myers-Insole Local Learning, Bristol Beacon | 2021
Digital workshop series, working with people with experiences of mental ill-health, exploring their experiences of language, communication, and home.
Trainee Director/Facilitator | Many Minds | 2021
Choices, The Thing & The Take Over, theatre performances devised by young people aged 8-16.
Facilitator/Director | The Big Act | 2019
Off-Peak, Play The Goat theatre company’s show as part of the Made in Bristol scheme.
Co-Director & Movement Director | Bristol Old Vic | 2019
On the Way to Language, experimental movement piece and soundscape based on autobiographical experiences of migration, language, identity and mental health.
Creator & Performer | Circomedia, Bristol Old Vic, Tobacco Factory Theatres, PRSC & UCA | 2018-2019
