From: Manchester.
Trained: Loughborough University and LAMDA.
Bio: I have performed as an actor all over the UK and a few times in New York.
I completed the Royal Court Young Writer’s Programme and have written under commission for the BBC, Sheffield Crucible, LAMDA and Manchester Royal Exchange. I also wrote and produced some stuff without attachments.
MANCHESTER ROYAL EXCHANGE - Lily (Current Commission)
Wilt a new play (originally programmed at Theatre by the Lake for 2020 - Bloody Covid!)
Some People Feel the Rain (Developed with Royal Exchange for their Den theatre in my hometown - Leigh)
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London - London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) - 2022
Operation Crucible - Sheffield Crucible - 2021
Halloween Adventure - at Luss Estates Faerie Trail - 2021
Some People Feel the Rain (Reading) - Royal Exchange - Den Theatre - Leigh - 2021
Red Brick, Render - Royal Exchange (All I want for Christmas) - 2020
Cornerstone - BBC Radio 4 - 2020
Wilt (Reading) - Bolton Octagon - 2019
31 Hours - Pint Sized Theatre (Belfast Tour) - 2019
Operation Crucible - BBC Radio 4 - 2018
Operation Crucible - From Ground Up Theatre Company and McGill Productions 59E59 Theatre - 2018
Comet - Pleasance Theatre - 2018
Chicken Soup. - Sheffield Crucible - 2018
31 Hours - Bunker Theatre - 2017
Gravesend - UK Tour - 2016
Operation Crucible - Sheffield Crucible, Finborough Theatre and UK Tour - 2013 - 21
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Bruntwood Prize - Some People Feel the Rain.
Bruntwood Prize - Now, where were we?
Spotlight - How Acting Can Help Your Writing.
That’s Theatre Darling - Podcast
Broadway World - Chicken Soup.
British Safety Council - Tracks of you tears.
I edited The Good Review for 6 years.
I have delivered workshops or taught modules at Bristol Old Vic, ALRA, LAMDA, Loughborough University and the University of Essex, and I have led sessions at theatres and colleges across the UK and workshops on writing and mental Health. I was a guest speaker at the Good Day at Work Conversation the UK’s leading health and wellbeing event at the Institute of Engineering in London on the origins and impacts of the play 31 Hours.
I have been on the LAMDA audition panel since 2019.
I directed ALRA final year students in Stephanie Dale’s Moonfleet in 2018.