Current Projects

I have been fortunate to have been involved in several projects in the past few years, many of which involve verbatim techniques and the lived experience of real people.

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The Farm

I am a Mercury Theatre playwright 2023/24 writing a play about the eviction of Travellers from Dale Farm in Essex.

In order to research this piece, I watched many documentaries, I read and spoke with the journalist Katharine Quarmby who wrote “No Place to Call Home” about the eviction, from that book I managed to get into contact with Father Dan Mason who is the priest that assisted the Travellers and held verbatim interviews with him.

I also attended Mass at his church to get a better understanding of Catholicism. At the church I was introduced to a lady who lived through the eviction and is still a resident on the legal side of Dale Farm.
She has become a firm friend and was extremely generous to give her time and story to me and that of her friends and family.

2023

Release

I consider myself extremely fortunate to have been recently commissioned to work alongside the very talented Blown Fuse on their new project Release supported by Arts Council England.

Release was developed in response from workshops with women with lived experience of the criminal justice system (via Advance Charity). The play asks if the UK prison system is working for women.

Directed by Michelle Barrington with Dramaturgy from Eleanore Frances, a cast of 5 immensely talented actors brought the play to life in a WIP showing at Metal Southend and Harlow Playhouse. 

In 2024-25, I will be joining the Blown Fuse Team to deliver creative workshops in women’s prisons, findings from which will inform the development of the rest of the play.

2024

Previous Projects

Fight or Flight

The Minack Theatre (2021)

Outcast from the village Syd and Abi must fight each day to survive. Adapted to their surroundings of the wild cliffs they have become more feral than ever before. They have a plan to steal the biggest Jewel arriving to market, if this works, they can spread their wings and fly away. But with the village hot on their heels to drive them out of town they may be about to lose it all.

Find Me

The Vaults Waterloo (2020)

Alone in a city when family ties are lost or broken, how do you find your voice in the dark? This is a play about finding meaningful connection in the modern world and discovering this in the least expected places. From drunken voice-noting to communal tables at Wagamamas and accessing God in Ikea. Using non-naturalistic storytelling techniques of direct address, physicality and spoken word, two performers declutter their minds and experience the power of female friendship.

  • RELEASE (R&D)

  • FEEL ME (R&D)

  • RELEASE (Work in Progress)

  • FIGHT OR FLIGHT

  • RELEASE (Work in Progress)