MULTI-DISCIPLINARY THEATRE MAKER
Director – Writer – Physical Theatre Performer – Classically Trained Lyric Soprano
“[a] crisp, gorgeous voice”, The Scotsman
TRAINING:
MA Advanced Theatre Practice (Central School of Speech and Drama, 2010-2011)
10 years vocal training with Howard Milner (2000-2010)
Diploma in Dance (Birkbeck University, 2000-2001)
The Knack (ENO’s Baylis Programme, 1999-2000)
CREDITS:
Embedded Dancer, “Dance Marathon”, Bluemouth inc., The Pit, Barbican Centre,London October 2011.
Director – “The Burials of Thebes”, The Space Between Theatre Company, (Final project for MA ATP detailed above), CRYPT FEST at St Andrew’s Church, Holborn, July 2011. Further details can be found here.
Singer – Solo Recital, Glanfa Stage, Wales Millennium Centre (with accompanist David Pert), September 2010
Writer & Performer – “The Opposite of Waiting”
45 minute solo show combining physical theatre, folk songs and new writing.
-Camden Fringe Festival (Etcetera Theatre, August 2010)
-EdinburghFringe Festival (Venue 13, August 2009)
-Cardiff Fringe (Bute Theatre, RWCMD, July 2009)
-Brighton Fringe Festival (Brighton Unitarian Church, May 2009)
-Scratch performances of ‘The Opposite of Waiting’ at Buxton Fringe Festival, July 2008
Singer – Solo Recital, St Botolph’s Church, Aldgate (with accompanist Susie Arbeid)
1st Soprano/Music Director – “Murder in the Cathedral”,Iris Theatre,St Paul’s Church,Covent Garden (Directed by Daniel Winder), March 2007.
Creator & Performer – “Iphigenia”, Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Zoo Venues, August 2006)
Earlier Singing Work:
For City Opera (Music Director: Margaret Gibbs)
Amor – Cavalli’s “Egisto”, 2005
Drusilla – Monteverdi’s “The Coronation of Poppea”, 2004
1st Witch – Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas”, 2003
For Imperial Opera:
Neighbour (Shostakovich’s Cheryomushki), 2002.
Neighbour (Kurt Weill’s Street Scene), 2001.
For English National Opera:
Part of ‘community chorus’ for Deborah Warner’s St John Passion at London Coliseum, 2001.
WORKSHOPS & SHORT COURSES:
Director’s Forum – Centre for Performance Research, Aberystwyth, April 2010
Giving Voice 10 (recipient of the Siwsann George Bursary) – Centre for Performance Research, Aberystwyth, April 2008
Two day physical theatre workshop with Al Nedjari from Gecko – Circomedia,Bristol, February 2008.
New Theatre Companies Survival Guide – Forbidden Theatre Company (Sinead MacManus and Pilar Orti). (7 week course on setting up and running a theatre company) Autumn 2006.
Physicality and Devising workshops with Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett from Frantic Assembly, London Autumn 2006.