Directing
I trained, originally, as a theatre director at The Bristol Vic Theatre School, having directed at the National Student Drama Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe.
I then directed at Soho Theatre Company, Kings Head, Bristol Old Vic Studio, in Oxford & Norwich; on postgraduate courses at UEA and Central School of Speech & Drama; rehearsed readings for Paines Plough, Graeae; scratch nights for the fence network, and Script Forums for New Playwrights Trust. I worked as Assistant Director on shows at The Wolsey Ipswich, Northern Stage Newcastle, and Bristol Old Vic. I stopped in 1994 when I took on a full-time arts management role.
My return to directing started in 2016 as I began to work on a long term project - My Heart is in The East (by Jessica Litwak). This was a process of slow theatre; partly as the two actors live in Paris and New York, partly owing to the pandemic; but also deliberately, as an antidote to the kick-and-rush approach to theatre making which I was happy to leave behind previously, and to enable a focus on process and engagement – what goes around the show – as much as the show itself.
2018 the Festival du Mort at the Bazar Cafe in La Charité-sur-Loire
http://www.the-fence.net/LaCharite18.aspx
2020 an online reading of Insulted Belarus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulted._Belarus_Worldwide_Readings_Project
2021 A one-night-only rehearsed reading of ‘decadent’ plays at The Albany in London.
https://www.thealbany.org.uk/shows/decadent-plays/
2023 Without decor production of My Heart is in the East by Jessica Litwak at Mind the Gap Studios in Bradford, The Manchester Jewish Museum and Cantiere Oberdan in Spoletto Italy as part of La Mama Umbria.