My work as a director has mostly involved new writing or new adaptations of classical plays, often in site specific locations.  I am fascinated by text and rhythm and love being at the start of a play’s journey.  I am always looking for new ways to interweave story and setting and facilitate rooms which bring out the nerves of a play and make it sing. 

I have collaborated in this way with inspirational playwrights including Rebecca Abrams (Liberating Electra), Janet Bolam (Just a Scratch and Within these Walls), Antonia Mackay (3 M’Others), Kit Hesketh-Harvey (Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme and Monteverdi’s Flying Circus), Gaye Poole (Dry and Happy Even After) Ceri Ashcroft (Snow and Pop), Miranda Keeling (Porridge), Tristan Pate (The Web) and Joel Horwood (All the little things we crushed). 

I adapted Ben Jonson's The Alchemist (Creation Theatre) setting it in a post-covid London penthouse and Alice in Wonderland (Polka Theatre) setting it in Fortnum & Masons.  I run Shakespeare courses and enjoy helping students unlock the verse.

Music is central to my work and I have directed two operas for Armonico Consort, been staff director for English Touring Opera and collaborated with composer, Jon Nichols and writer, Tom Morton-Smith, on their short musical play, Blunderbuss. I co-wrote a verse version of The Nutcracker with conductor, Harry Sever, which we performed with Cambridge Philharmonic.

I am Associate Director for Human Story Theatre which brings together social care organisations and playwrights to produce work which is current, urgent and has led to changes in legislation. I co-founded company Tiny Light with Ceri Ashcroft which, under her leadership, is now Oxfordshire's leading early years' theatre company.  I also co-founded Human Behaviour and initiated Idiots in the Dark - a creative "laboratory" at Pegasus Theatre.  Several established companies grew out of this.   

I am always keen to hear about new ideas and projects and talk about ways in which I can collaborate.

I also offer a feedback service for new plays.  I have a strong understanding of the privilege of the role and how painful it can be to hand your work over.  If this is something that interests you, please do get in contact, either through my agent or through Human Story Theatre (link below).

UPCOMING PROJECTS:

November 2026

Development & Rehearsed Reading of Rebecca Abrams play about Restorative Justice, All of Us, for Human  Story Theatre

February 2027

Development & production of The Cherry Pickers by Carolyn Lloyd-Davies, a play about de-flagging Oxford for Living the Drama

2027

Development of Just a Scratch by Janet Bolam about Edward Jenner for Human Story Theatre. To be toured 2027.