I’ve worked extensively as a dramaturg and literary manager across the UK and Europe, with a particular focus on new writing.

CURRENT WORK

Current work includes projects with Cabaret group The Ruby Dolls, Sabrina Mahfouz for Theatre Centre, Katie Bonna for her 2016 Edinburgh show, Suzi Humphries of The Company, Bethan Marlow for Y Labordy, Pia Furtado with the Abram Wilson Foundation, Charlotte Josephine for Snuffbox Theatre, Nicola Werenowska for Graeae and Elinor Cook for LAMDA.

I am in-house dramaturg at LAMDA supporting their new writing commissions and teaching their directors.

PAST WORK

I have been Associate Dramaturg at the RSC, Production Dramaturg at the Globe, Senior Reader at Soho Theatre, Literary Manager at Theatre503, New Writing Associate at The Red Room and Scripts Assistant at the National Theatre.

Award winning work I have supported includes Fin Kennedy’s How To Disappear and Never Be Found, Alice Birch’s Revolt. She said. Revolt Again., Phoebe Eclair-Powell’s Fury. 

I was the Information and Research Consultant at the Writers’ Organisation writernet working nationally with writers and those who work with them, with a particular focus on removing barriers to participation and creating resources for the development of new work with a host of partners from Graeae through to Soho Theatre.

I set up and ran the South West New Writing Network, bringing together writers and producers across the region to devise projects and policies to support the development of new work. Partners included Bristol Old Vic, Plymouth Theatre Royal, Ustinov in Bath, Cheltenham Everyman, Hall for Cornwall,  Theatre South West, Exeter Northcott and Salisbury Playhouse.

I am a founder member of the Fence Network, an international network of playwrights and cultural operators, with whom I have exchanged practice in locations as far afield as Guadeloupe, Belgrade, Istanbul and Tampere.

Outside of the new writing box I have worked with artists, dancers, poets and musicians including Kaleider on Ancient Sunlight, creating a book of the oil age with children and artists in Exeter, with dance company Champloo on the film/theatre piece White Caps, visual artist Luci Gorrell Barnes on her Tragic Tale of Little Lupin for Bristol Old Vic and poets Molly Naylor and Carol Leeming on their one woman shows for Apples and Snakes.