DIRECTOR CREDITS
THEATRE 503 (3 week run)
FEB-MAR 2025
Writer: Ruth D’Silva
Recipient of a John Fernald Award for this production.
Exploring care for elderly parents in the wake of childhood abuse.
Set Designer: Caitlin Mawhinney
CHIPS OFF THE OLD BLOCK
STREETWISE OPERA
NOTTNGHAM 2024
Libretto: Paterson Joseph
Score: David Austin Grey
Co-created with the Streetwise Nottingham Performers and performed on the Nottingham Playhouse main stage as part of the Re:Discover Festival of Opera.
Designer: Debbie Duru
BRUM COMMISSIONS
BIRMINGHAM OPERA COMPANY 2024
Composer + Librettist: Ryan Morgan
‘Numbers in Conflict’ was one of four original compositions commissioned by Birmingham Opera Company, debuted at East Side Projects.
Performed by baritone Nicholas Morris and accordionist Miloš Milivojević.
KALI DISCOVERY
KALI 2024
Writers: Varied
A showcase of new writing from female S.Asian writers in the W.Midlands, performed in THE DOOR at the Birmingham REP.
HIGH TIDE RISING
HIGHTIDE 2023
Writers: Guleraana Mir + Tom Ratcliffe
A festival of new exciting work from East of England writers, performed in Suffolk at the Hight Tide Rising Festival.
THE SCAR TEST
LAMDA
Writer: Hannah Khalil
A performance with final year MfA acting students in December 2022
Designer - Ethan Cheek
Movement Director - Kloe Dean
WAKE UP PEOPLE
Writer: John Webber
QUEEN’S THEATRE HORNCHURCH 2022
A work in progress sharing of the script as part of the ‘Blueprints Festival’ 2022.
We are having a further sharing of the script in 2023 after a period of R&D.
OUR STREETS
TARA THEATRE 2022
A production co-created over 3 months with young female & non-binary people in Wandsworth.
Using a combination of personal filmed material and live performance, a group of young women will take us into their public and private worlds. You’ll never see the streets around you in the same way again.
Created with dramaturg afshan d’souza lodhi and filmmaker Ula Moroz.
WHEN THE SEA SWALLOWS US WHOLE
VAULT FESTIVAL 2020
Writer: Natasha Collie
Cast: Jack Archer, Charlotte O’Leary, Jacoba Williams
A production that has been in development for 18 months, with a day of R&D at the Young Vic in 2019.
Set in a coastal town that has been decommissioned due to erosion, we follow Mila and Doll navigate their friendship with Posy outsider arriving in the town. Mila discovers her sexuality and Doll discovers his inner confidence.
TAMASHA PLAYWRIGHTS
LEICESTER CURVE
Writers: Sami Ibrahim, Ese Ighorae and Adam Kotwal
Directing and presenting the 20 minute sections of work from the Tamasha Playwrights at the end of their residency.
WRITE AWAY
BIRMINGHAM REP
Writers: including Naush Sabah, Wersha Bharadwa, Lakshnie Hettihewa-Young
Directing the sharings of work created by writers on the 10 week ‘Write Away’ course at Birmingham Rep in 2018 and 2019
DEAD ENDINGS
BIRMINGHAM REP
Writer: Claire Thill
Cast: Charis McRoberts + Laurence Saunders
Part of the ‘Foundry Festival’ at the Birmingham REP, after a year of training on the Foundry Artist Development Scheme.
I worked with Luxembourgish writer Claire Thill to develop the script from a short piece to a full length performance. Focussed on young people and mental health in the digital world.
WASTED
ALBANY THEATRE DEPTFORD
Writer: Kae Tempest
Part of the ‘Stomping Ground’ Festival of Young Directors work shared at the end of the StoneCrabs Young Directors training course.
TALENT LAB
LUXEMBOURG THÉATRE DE LA VILLE
Writers: Charlene James, Chloe Moss, Claire Thill
6 short commissions by the Birmingham REP + Theatre de la Ville responding to the impact of the digital world on the mental health of young people today. Developing the commissioned writers short pieces through different drafts and directing 3 pieces in Luxembourg.
UNWRAPPED
UROCK THEATRE / EASTERN ANGLES
Devised by the cast
A response piece to the Eastern Angles community production of ‘All Wrapped Up’. The cast were a group of young theatre makers aged 13-21. The performances examined clothing and gender for young people.
ASSISTANT / ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR CREDITS
TARTUFFE (ASSOC. Dir)
BIRMINGHAM REP
Director: Iqbal Khan
Associate Director for the Main House production of Tartuffe in 2022.
COVENTRY MOVES
COVENTRY CITY OF CULTURE 2021
Director: Justine Themen
Opening moment for Coventry’s year as the UK City of Culture. Working over 4 months to create and shape a large scale outdoor event that represents the heritage and future of Coventry.
I led on the ‘Innovation’ section involving a performance that moved around the city on a peloton of bikes.
https://youtu.be/xjmaP-jzFdc?t=1475
ROMEO + JULIET
BIRMINGHAM REP THEATRE
Director: Amit Sharma
Main House production with a cast of 40. The script has been separated into three sections, telling the story of three different Romeos and Juliets at different ages.
REBEL MUSIC
BIRMINGHAM REP + SIR BARRY JACKSON TOUR
Writer: Robin French
Director: Alex Brown
Cast: Lauren Foster, Hannah Millward and Nathan Queeley-Dennis. Production about the ‘Rock Against Racism’ movement in Birmingham that had a 2 week run at the REP, and then I lead the team on a 2 week tour of West Midlands community spaces.
ALL YOU NEED IS LSD
BIRMINGHAM REP THEATRE + TOLD BY AN IDIOT TOUR
Writer: Leo Butler
Director: Paul Hunter + Steve Harper
Cast: Sophie Mercell, Jack Hunter, Annie FitzMaurice, George Potts. Production that tracks the history of LSD and follows Leo Butler’s own story of being part of an LSD trial at Hammersmith Hospital trialling the medical potential of the drug.
THE INTERNET WAS MADE FOR ADULTS (ASSOCIATE DIR.)
VAULT FESTIVAL 2018
Created by Hitting the Wall Productions
Directed by Anna Girvan with the cast: Crystal Dockery, Emily Francis, Fiona Hamilton and Georgina Swanson.
Winner of the ‘Origins Award’.
ALL WRAPPED UP IN WESTWOOD
THE UNDERCROFT + EASTERN ANGLES
Writer: Ivan Cutting
Director Poppy Rowley
Community production with a cast of 20 actors. The production was about the history of the longstanding Freemans Factory and the women who worked there in Peterborough, inspired by interviews held with employees.
THE FLETTON RAILWAY CHILDREN
THE UNDERCROFT + EASTERN ANGLES
Writer: Julie Mayhew
Director: Poppy Rowley
Cast: Charlotte Ellen, Lianne Harvey, Lily Howins, Lewys Taylor. Adaptation of the book by Edith Nesbit, transporting the original story to the setting of Peterborough during the decommissioning of many stations because of the Beeching report.
AGAINST ALL ODDS
ALMEIDA THEATRE
Writer: Charlie Josephine
Director: Beth Shouler
Co-production between the Almeida Participation team and Arsenal in the Community. Created from workshops with Arsenal’s community groups including ‘Freedom from Torture’ and young footballers. A piece performed by the community groups at the Almeida about overcoming odds stacked against you.
LOVELY UGLY CITY
ALMEIDA THEATRE
Writer: Isley Lynn
Director: Jo Tyabji
Created and performed by a community cast of 40 people. In response to Lyndsey Turner’s production of Martin Crimp’s ‘The Treatment’.
STARTING OUT
WOMEN & THEATRE / BIRMINGHAM REP
Director: Caroline Wilkes
Writers: Charlene James, Manjeet Mann, Janice Connolly, Susie Sillett, Lorna Laidlaw
Part of the Women and Work project that looks at women in different stages of their working lives. This particular project looked at women just at the start of their careers. There were 5 monologues written inspired by interviews with real young women in a diverse range of industries.
DRAMATURG CREDITS
TRAPPED BETWEEN STORIES
Writers: EMMELINE HARTLEY + JACK MULLINGS
Directed by Stephen Whitson
A week of research and development with actors developing a stage adaptation of a short film exploring consent.
A THOUSAND WELCOMES
LYNNEBEC + COMMONWEALTH GAMES
Created by the Company
A special ceremony performed by local students and Birmingham based theatre professionals to provide a warm Brummie welcome to the 6,500 athletes and team officials at the Birmingham 2022 campus villages.
MIXED
ENGLISH TOURING THEATRE
Writers: various
Working with 3 writers of Mixed Heritage to become part of an anthology of monologues created by and for people of mixed heritage. Conceived by Ben Quashie to explore what it means to be of mixed heritage in contemporary Britain, when it is the fastest growing minority ethnicity.
PETTICOAT COUNCIL
BOYS CLUB THEATRE
Writer: Frankie Meredith
Set in a Midlands town in the wake of WW2, ‘Petticoat Council’ combines modern folk music, dance & storytelling, to tell the story of how a real life group of housewives in a rural Warwickshire Village broke down barriers to transform the area & community around them, forming the first female council in Britain.