Playwright. Translator.
I write and make plays. Commissions include from the National Theatre, Birmingham Rep, Nuffield Southampton, Plymouth Rep, Britschool.
I work with youth groups, in the community, in schools, universities, with mental health, ex-offenders and vulnerably housed groups devising and writing.
Currently working on the National Theatre's New Views scheme as a playwright mentor and under commission to Forest Forge Theatre.
PLAYS: BURN 2005/6 National Theatre (and international)
ROSALIND, A QUESTION OF LIFE 2005 Birmingham Rep
THE FOREST 2006/2008 Plymouth Rep/Dundee Rep/Polka Theatre/York Rep
THE CAGE 2007 Nuffield Theatre, Southampton
SAFE 2008 National Theatre
RLF fellow, Chichester University 2008-2011
THE GARAGE PLAY, 2011 - one of three plays written for, and performed in a house.
THREE EMPTY CHAIRS,2012 - a play created from Kafka's diaries of 1911, with Laura FitzGerald for Theatre Royal Winchester
SOMETHING FOR THE WINTER 2011/2012 Southwark Theatre and Sweden tour, The Bridge Company (Britschool leavers' company),
WELL...ROUGH, 2012, a community play for Wellingborough
@TROY, 2013 with Fiona Mackie as the Fuse; a writing for performance research and development project, funded by ACE/National Lottery. Performed at the Gurkha Museum, Winchester.
BETWEEN WIND AND WATER, 2013, a play about Southampton's docks and shipyard workers, written from interviews with older people and using oral history archive.
POSTCARDS FROM THE BIG BLUE, 2014. A play about climate change for primary schools.
Translations:
Films: Interview with a thirteen year old boy,
Continuum - both directed by Baerbel Freund
Theatre: OEDIPUS CITY by John v. Dueffel, together with playwright David Spencer, for Deutsches Theater, Berlin