About me
I am a writer/theatremaker based emotionally in Manchester but physically in London.
Most recently, I had an ACE funded R&D for my play ‘My Mum’s Dead Boyfriend’ in Manchester (support from HOME theatre, Box of Tricks, and national/local grief charities including 42nd Street and Cruse).
It was produced with my theatre company No Door Theatre, creating work since 2016. No Door Theatre are Manchester-based producers of new writing with a specific focus on female voices and stories. Notable successes include producing 5 full length shows, touring performance to Manchester, London, Oxford & Edinburgh, and 3 sellout scratch nights to 100+ crowds.
My sparkly gameshow ‘DO YOU FANCY THEM OR ARE THEY JUST IN THE VICINITY?’ about how ADHD affects your love life debuted at the Glitch as part of A Pinch of Vault Festival in February 2024, and came back as part of the inaugural Croydon Fringe in November.
As a writer, I've most recently been selected as part of Box of Tricks first International PenPals programme, and had work commissioned with Matchstick Theatre as part of the Deptford Literature Festival. My queer theatrical grief rave, ‘Fox, Drops & Panda Pops’ was shortlisted for the Lancaster Playwriting Prize and performed as part of Engine Room at the Clapham Omnibus. She’s had work at The Other Palace, Deptford Literature Festival, Shoreditch Town Hall & Southwark Playhouse. I also previously won the Royal Exchange Theatre's Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting LocalTale award.
As a director my most recent works include ‘Chosen’, a f-Undead musical for Beam Festival and The Other Palace, and Moist for Flaw State Theatre.
I occasionally express my anxieties through poetry and have been seen at The Pleasance Theatre and Vault Festival.
I work as a freelance theatre facilitator, mainly with children and young people, at Hackney Shed, Montage Theatre Arts, Building Imagination and Cardboard Citizens.
I worked for two years at social enterprise Page & Bloom (ending ny time here as interim CEO) running the paper floristry as well as supporting women back into work after domestic abuse.