A writer with drama as a core discipline, I am interested in high content theatre and social affairs.
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
Theatre, Writer/Director/Producer (ACE or CPP supported)
GREEN_Space scratch tour 2017: The Green Backyard, Olive Branch Garden, Westraven Big Local
TRANSFORMER Stream-Lyric Hotbed Festival 2016
TRANSFORMER Stream-Lyric Peterborough Key 2016
MENTAL Play tour 2015: CPT, Oxford Fire Station, Peterborough Key, Abbey Centre, Westminster
Cambridge Junction Hotbed Festival MENTAL Play 2014
Norwich Arts Centre Stream-Lyric MENTAL Play 2014
Cambridge Junction Hotbed Festival Bermuda Triangle 2013
Cambridge Junction Menagerie Theatre Organ Recital 2012
Freelance Journalism –
The Economist News desk support 2023
ITV, Good Morning Britain Input producer 2023
The Byline Times Feature article on poverty of poverty data in the UK 2022
The Stage Feature on artists moving out of London during Covid 2021
The FRANK Mag (Editor, Mel Sykes) Various – arts/women/reviews 2019-2022