Kia ora!
Hello!
Dia dhuit!
A few plays I love:
Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets
Circle Mirror Transformations by Annie Baker
The Effect by Lucy Prebble
The Grain Store by Natal'ya Vorozhbit
You Got Older by Clare Barron
Roots by Arnold Wesker
Static by Dan Rebellato
Beginning; Middle; End by David Eldrige
When Sun and Moon Collide by Briar Grace-Smith
I'm a British-Irish-New Zealand director, writer and sometimes movement director.
I'm just having a bit of a rejig of this page but you can see some bits and bobs about my work by clicking HERE.
Or scroll down for a few of the films/plays/productions that have stuck with me below.
Some productions I'm still thinking about:
Impressions Sanjie Lui - Li River Landscape Theatre, China
The Cherry Orchard - Donmar Warehouse, 2024
The Cord - The Bush Theatre, 2024
The Confessions - NT, 2023
Le Passé - L'Odéon, Paris, 2021
The Swing - Te Rākau Hua o Te Wao Tapu, NZ, 2019
Dance Nation - Almeida Theatre, 2018
Summer and Smoke - Almeida Theatre, 2018
An Octoroon - NT, 2018
LOVE - National Theatre, 2017
Lungs - Paines Plough, 2016
Once - West End, 2013
Gatz - Elevator Repair Sevice/West End, 2012
Going Dark - Young Vic, 2012
Some films I've seen recently that I'm still thinking about:
Good One
Ida
Being There
Drive My Car
Past Lives
Maestro
Gasoline Rainbow
Perfect Days
C'mon C'mon
The Before Trilogy
Nebraska
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
I trained on LAMDA's MA Directing programme and founded Southern Magpie, picking up Offie Nominations for Best Director, Best Movement and a Pub Theatres Award for Show of the Year.
I've worked as an assistant director to Olivier Award winning director Rebecca Frecknall and North Wall Artistic Director Ria Parry. And I've been mentored by Donmar Warehouse Artistic Director Mike Longhurst and Auckland Theatre Company Artistic Director Colin McColl.
My first short film as writer and director 'Our Old Den' has played at festivals world wide, including being Runner up Best Interntional Film at SENE Festival (one of Moviemaker-Film Freeways 20 best festivals for first time filmmakers) and was a semi-finalist at Academy Award Qualifying Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival.
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I am committed to access and inclusion in the arts, and have my Level 1 British Sign Language Qualification. I have held a residency to work with young people at Bedales School and been commissioned by drama schools Mountview and LAMDA to create and write work for and with young people and D/deaf and disabled actors.
I also work in drama schools and with new writers, young people and d/Deaf and disabled artists to teach, create new work and reimagine contemporary and classic texts.
I am always searching for moments that can unlock the extraordinariness of our ordinary lives - however that exists on stage and screen.
