I have worked as a director and facilitator making theatre with both young people and adults for over ten years. I am an egg (children’s theatre) associate artist, Arnolfini associate artist and have worked with young people with Creative Partnerships, Travelling Light, Arnolfini, Cue Bristol, Spike Island, Bath Young Carers Association, the egg, Theatre Royal Bath as well as numerous schools in the Bristol and Bath area. I also work at universities and with council run and community projects.
I often make large-scale performances with (youth) theatres and (youth) groups or initiatives as well running smaller scale projects and workshops in schools (some independently and some in collaboration with the above organisations). The larger projects are often provide an opportunity for me to closely match my own specialist practice with the work we do.
As a theatre maker, I specialise in making devised site-specific experimental theatre and when I work with young people I find ways they can connect with the subject and form of their project and own what they make. I favour a co-learning and collaborative approach but construct structures that hold the young people and allow them to be free and creative whilst at the same time producing high quality pieces of theatre.
Some recent projects include . . .
(I THINK) I LOVE YOU (November 2011)
A part-choreographed, part-improvised 45 minute long performance made with teenagers about being in and out of love. It takes place all around the audience who are seated as if they are in the club / party.
Making "(I Think) I Love You" - Our Process . . . . .
