SELECTED PRODUCTIONS
AS WRITER
SINK | in development with HOME Manchester | forthcoming
butterfly | VAULT Festival & Loco Klub Bristol | 2019-20
co-writer, associate director (dir. Sam Arbor) & dramaturg
AS WRITER-DIRECTOR
UNCOOL | BFI NETWORK & Little Stitch Productions | forthcomingLADYFRIENDS [a period drama] | Hope Mill Theatre & touring | 2022-23
venues incl Camden People’s Theatre, Shakespeare North Playhouse & Gloucester Guildhall
First Kiss (With A Girl) | peachy clean zine ((dirty)) | 2020
played in competition at BAFTA-qualifying festivals worldwide
AS DIRECTOR
Limpet | PORTENT | 2025 [R&D]
Swon Lake | The Lowry | 2024 [R&D]
LOB | Contact Theatre & Outburst Arts | 2022
co-directing with Chris P Brown
AS DRAMATURG
Borrowed | Unity Theatre | 2024
DROP IT | Lighthouse Poole & The Lowry | 2022-23 [R&D]
WORK WITH YOUNG PEOPLE
Future Fashion Forward | National Theatre & The Lowry | Lead Artist | 2024 [audio & installation]
with textile artist Ibukun Baldwin
Monster | National Theatre & The Lowry | Writer, Director & Lead Artist | 2023 [film]
with filmmaker Riley Bramley-Dymond
SHORT WORKS & INSTALLATION
SAINTS | Blether at Levenshulme Old Library | Performer & Maker | 2024 [live art]
Art! Real Art! | HOME Manchester | 2023 [R&D]
co-directing/making with James Varney (as FAboutFindOut)
The Ghost Swap | The Lowry, hÄb & others | Co-Maker/Performer | 2022-23 [live art/installation]
co-directing/making with James Varney (as FAboutFindOut)
Girls’ Club! | Barrel Organ: LIVE | Lead Artist | 2021 [hybrid/digital/live art]
PUBLICATIONS
Doing Things with Light: On Cinema and Magic [an apparition], Open City Documentary Festival, London, UK: University College London (2022)
OTHER WORK
SCRIPT READING
Bush TheatreGeorge Devine Award
PROGRAMMING & CRITICISM
Sheffield DocFest | Programme Adviser | 2022 – pres.ISPA 2023 Congress | Young Artists Panel | 2023
Open City DocFest | Commissioned Essayist | 2022
BFI Future Film Festival | Submission Previewer | 2022
BFI Film Academy Young Programmer | 2021-22
Young Critic | Almeida Theatre | 2019-21
EVENT HOSTING & CURATION
BFI London Film FestivalSheffield DocFest
BFI Flare
BFI Future Film Festival
Almeida Theatre
HOME Manchester
TEACHING
University of Salford (BA Theatre & Performance)Royal Central School of Speech & Drama (MA Advanced Theatre Practice)
FACILITATION
National Theatre, The Lowry, Royal Exchange Theatre, HOME, BFI, Homotopia, University of Manchester, OUTing The Past, Contact Theatre, The Proud Trust and London Metropolitan Archives.AWARDS & MEMBERSHIPS
MEMBERSHIPS
BAFTA | Connect Member | Jul. 2023 – pres.Dramaturgs’ Network | Full Member | Sep. 2020 – pres.
AWARDS
Official Selection at BIFA- and BAFTA-qualifying film festivals
Nominated for the Rising Star Award at Women X Film Festival 2022
Nominated for the Dramaturgs’ Network Fellowship 2024
Shortlisted for the Peter Shaffer Postgraduate Award for Playwriting 2024
Shortlisted for Film4 x New Writing North Genre Feature Lab 2024
Shortlisted for the MGCfutures Bursary 2023
Longlisted for Orange Tree Writers Collective 2023
Longlisted for BOLD Playwrights 2024
EDUCATION & TRAINING
EDUCATION
MA Advanced Theatre Practice (Distinction), Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of LondonBSc Geography (First Class Hons), University of Bristol
[Graduated with the Qualitative Human Geography Dissertation Prize.]
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Box of Tricks & Rope Ladder Fiction | BoxFresh | 2023
BFI NETWORK, Film Hub North & Aesthetica | Script Lab | 2023
Box of Tricks | Pen Pals | 2022
BFI NETWORK, Film London & Young Vic Theatre | ShortCuts | 2020
Tobacco Factory Theatres | Writers’ Scheme | 2018/19