A writer with drama as a core discipline, I am interested in current affairs, history and meta-theatre

 

Theatre, Writer/Director/Producer (ACE or CPP supported)

 

BACK TO TERRA FIRMA   Stream Lyric CIC            Theatre503 (short run)        2025

BACK TO TERRA FIRM     Stream Lyric CIC             The Bush Studio        2024

GREEN_Space scratch tour 2017:          The Green Backyard, Olive Branch Garden, Westraven Big Local – Peterborough                                                                                                                                                                   2017

TRANSFORMER             Stream-Lyric                               Cambridge Junction/Hotbed Festival        2016

TRANSFORMER             Stream-Lyric                                  Peterborough Key        2016

MENTAL Play tour 2015: CPT, Oxford Fire Station, Peterborough Key, Abbey Centre, Westminster

MENTAL Play            Cambridge Junction           Hotbed Festival        2014

MENTAL Play                Norwich Arts Centre           Stream Lyric        2014

BERMUDA TRIANGLE   Cambridge Junction       Hotbed Festival       2013

ORGAN RECITAL      Cambridge Junction        Menagerie Theatre     2012

 

Awards & residencies –

 

The Key Theatre –                          1st resident company        2017

Time & Space residency               METAL Culture        2016

Escalator Live Art residency         Colchester Arts Centre        2013

Arvon 42 Award                             Totleigh Barton         2010

Guardian Young Writer Arvon Award winner (Poetry)        2000

 

Digital & Broadcast –

 

A Week in Eden, a radio play developed by Afonica es. for BBCR4 & 3        2020

Black Writers on Democracy film commissions, Director/producer  (crowd-funded)                                                                                                                       2020

Lives of F film-poems, Writer/Filmmaker (ACE supported)         2018

 

Freelance Journalism –

 

BBC/YouTube/NFTS Create x Connect Scheme (selected for inaugural Creator Training programme)                                                                                                                                                      2026

 

The Economist                               News desk support         2023

ITV, Good Morning Britain         Casual  Input producer         2023

The Byline Times                           Social Affairs Features         2022-2024

The Stage         Feature on artists moving out of London during Covid         2021

The FRANK Mag (Editor, Mel Sykes)   Various – arts/women/reviews        2019-2022