Me

I'm a theatre director, dramaturg and sometime writer working and living in London. I build productions that work like empathy machines; open stages, acute performances and symbolic images that expose a human cost. I want audiences to walk away with the wounds of a story, feeling the impact rather than simply understanding it.

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A lot of my work has been about melancholy, and Englishness, both of which I'm still very interested in. But at the moment I'm fascinated by liberal hypocrisy, the role of morals in our history and the role of nihilism in our future. 

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I'm an activist for fair hiring in the sector. I co-founded OpenHire alongside Derek Bond, and that's how I now find the majority of my collaborators. More info on that here.

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When starting out I worked for two years as the Soho Theatre Literary Associate (2012 - 2014), while running my own small company, the now defunct Fat Git Theatre. I then worked extensively as an Assistant Director, in the West End (Pressure, Farinelli and the King, Death of a Salesman) with Shakespeare's Globe (Doctor Scroggy's War, Eternal Love, Taming of the Shrew) and the RSC (Dr Faustus, The Alchemist). I also first toured to New York as an Assistant Director, with Joe Murphy's production of Blink. 

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After years of trying, in 2017 I won the JMK Award, directing My Name is Rachel Corrie at the Young Vic (I had applied six times previously and never made it past the first round). I then started directing more work in my own right, for Audible, BBC Arts and elsewhere. I directed two new plays by Lucy Roslyn, taking her adaptation of Orlando to New York off-broadway, while also directing new plays by writers like Joel Tan and Joe White. 

 

I also started directing revivals, like HOME by David Storey in The Minerva, Chichester Festival Theatre. Then, a year later, co-directed PRESSURE by David Haig in the Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto. If you want to have a look at all my past productions, click here. 

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