2012-2016
Fence 21, Mannheim 2015 L-R Kazem Shahryari, Sara Shaarawi, Alain Foix, Fred Fortas, Ziad Adwan, Jonathan Meth, Abdelrahim Al Awji, Debbie Seymour, Terry Ezra
October 2016 Completed 10 year stint as External Assessor on the MA in Scriptwriting at UEA.
August 2016 Directed Two-day workshop on My Heart is in The East with Jessica Litwak and Fred Fortas
June 2016 Dramaturgy on Alexander Raptotasios’ The Macbeths for LAMDA
May 2016 Fence 23 as part of the Festival du Mot at La Charite sur Loire
April 2016 Fence 22 as part of the International Theatre Festival in Istanbul, also in partnership with Eurodram, supported by Allianz Stifting
March 2016 Curated 2 Swedish playwrights, 2 UK playwrights with myself and Edward Bromberg as dramaturgs, to Hong Kong for a translation workshop of new plays for young people, for AFTEC
March 2016 Launched Matt Hargrave’s book: Good, Bad or Plain Ugly; Theatres of Learning Disability, at the Disability Research Centre, Goldsmiths
2015
October 2015 Keynote Speaker at the first convening on Relaxed Performances in China in Hong Kong October 2015, with Vicki Ooi and Lynn Yau at AFTEC
June 2015: Fence 21 as part of the Schillertage Festival at The Nationalteater in Mannheim and also in partnership with TiG7. Theme – Closed Societies.
May 2015 Directed Rehearsed reading with Jessica Litwak on My Heart is in the East, her new play set in 11th Century Cordoba. Jessica is also working on this with La Mama in New York
March 2015 Completed 18 months as Convenor, MA Writing for Performance & Dramaturgy, Goldsmiths
January 2015: Fence 20 Eugene O’Neill Theatre Centre, Connecticut and Lark Play Development Center New York, The Play Company and NITE
2014
October 2014: Married Debbie Seymour. Jointly dramaturged the ceremony.
May 2014 : Fence 19 Prishtina, as part of Polip 4th Literature Festival and Heads of Committee meeting of Paris-based script-in-translation network Eurodram. (I am the Head of the English language committee)
March 2014 : Kings College London, presentation to students on the Beautiful Minds – Mental Health and The Arts module. “Took it as read. Or The Curious Incident of the Fog in the Sightline.”Sarah Kane, Theatre and Mental Health
February 2014 : Crossing The Line. Led the assembly and submission to Brussels of a bid for 2 years of new Creative Europe funding to bring together Europe’s three leading theatre companies working with professional, learning disabled theatre makers. (Mind The Gap, Bradford, Compagnie de l’Oiseau Mouche, Roubaix and Moomsteatern, Malmo).
Script Reader – Sonia Friedman Productions – for Jack Bradley
January 2014 : Fence 18 Eugene O’Neill Theatre Centre, Connecticut and Lark Play Development Center New York
2013
December 2013: Two Schmucks, Three Opinions performances in London, Leeds and Somerset. Part of a series of try-outs of a new performance piece which I have co-written, co-directed and co-perform with Steve Tiller.
You can read more about Two Schmucks :
November 2013: Kuala Lumpur, dramaturgical work alongside playwright Peter Arnott with 35 Malaysian playwrights from across the country as part of a nationwide competition set up by the Ministry and delivered by Kakiseni. Trip curated by British Council
October 2013: Tbilisi, Georgian International Theatre Festival
September 2013: University of Reading – Creating New Writing 1945-2013) plenary panel discussion on new writing and the Arts Council (England)
2012
June 2012 – September 2013 Project Dramaturg & Trainer – The Secret Listeners – Pascal Theatre Company – with Julia Pascal
November 2012 Co-ordinated Fence 17 in in Amsterdam, with MC, and Theater Instituut Nederland, SICA and The British Council
October 2012 Project Consultant – ACT Interreg Channel successful bid beginning with Royal Opera House, Theatre Is… , Gateway Academy School, Tilbury, Southend YMCA, Thurrock Council Music Services
September 2012 Thought Leader, Disability and Theatre symposium at The Kennedy Centre, Washington DC