I am a London based theatre and opera director focused on colliding the strange and the surreal with toe-tapping music and dance. I have won awards for my musicals but direct plays too, and adaptations. What they all have in common is an experience for an audience that feels outrageously joyous and lavish despite limited resources. My aim is to give audiences a great night out in a way that leaves their brains itching.

I have directed new and classic musicals, ensemble plays with hallucinatory design, outdoor spectacles and avant garde dinner theatre, including Shakespeare's Cymbeline, Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork's London Road, Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses, Sondheim's Follies and Merrily We Roll Along.

I have also developed adaptations of The Tiger’s Bride by Angela Carter, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender and Vanya’s, a new jazz improv musical based on Uncle Vanya by A.C. Smith and Bella Barlow. Recently I worked with 59 Productions to develop the immersive performance elements across several floors of a major museum in the UAE.

ASSOCIATE WORK

I spent 10 years associate and assistant directing in major commercial and subsidised theatres in New York and London. I have worked in this capacity on Broadway and in the West End, at the RSC, the Old Vic, with Punchdrunk, with Sting on his musical The Last Ship, and on the first US tour of War Horse.

TEACHING

I teach acting and directing for the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Mountview Academy, ArtsEd and the Birkbeck MFA in Theatre Directing.

Past teaching includes workshops for the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Young Vic, the Old Vic, the RSC, the Lyric Hammersmith, British Youth Opera, San Jose State University, and Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford.

AWARDS

2018 SDC Charles Abbott Musical Theatre Fellow. Awards and grants from Arts Council England, the Theatre Development Fund, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the National Foundation for Advancement of the Arts and the Drama League.

Proud member of Stage Directors UK.

BFA NYU Tisch Drama.

MFA Birkbeck Theatre Directing.