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About

I am a movement director, teacher and researcher in the field of movement in theatre. My movement work aims to free and empower the actor through motion,  imagination and emotion.  I act as an advocate for the field of movement direction and create links between directors, actors and movement directors.   For the last 20 years I have also been at the helm of the MA MFA Movement: Directing and Teaching at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. 

TRAINED: Bristol University and Lecoq, Paris.

My movement roots draw sustenance from a range of sources. I attended a primary school using Laban informed PE in 1970’s Lewisham, Adult education classes in ballet, choreography summer schools at Laban and Brighton Poly. I played many sports competitively including tennis and lacrosse. I undertook extended workshops with Sandra Reeve, Kazuo Ohno, Lloyd Newson. I have practiced yoga for 35 years and that is ongoing . I pay respect to all my teachers in Feldenkrais, acrobatics, movement analysis and improvisation during my two year training with Lecoq teaching embodied practice.

CURRENTLY PLAYING: Hamnet (Royal Shakespeare Company) and And Then There Were None ( National Tour)

PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT: Europeana (Projekt Europa) and Kiss Marry Kill (Dante or Die)

RSC: As You Like It, The Provoked Wife, Romeo and Juliet, The Duchess of Malfi, Dido, Queen of Carthage, Doctor Faustus, Hecuba, The Shoemaker’s Holiday, The White Devil, As You Like It, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Richard III, King John, Measure for Measure, Little Eagles, The Gods Weep, Days of Significance.

SELECTED WORKS:  Let Your Hands Sing in the Silence, by Project Europa, the Marlowe; Mary, Hampstead Theatre; The Dark for Peut Etre, UK tour; Dido’s Bar for Dash Arts, UK tour; Skin Hunger by Dante or Die, Stone Nest: [BLANK] Donmar Warehouse; The Wolves Theatre Royal, Stratford East; Shakespeare in Love, National Tour; Othello, Sam Wanamaker at Shakespeare’s Globe; Fantastic Mr Fox, Nuffield Theatre, National and International Tour (UK Theatre Awards 2017 Winner of The Renee Stepham Award for Best Presentation of Touring Theatre); Lady Chatterley’s Lover, the Crucible Theatre and National Tour with ETT; The Government Inspector,  Birmingham Repertory Theatre and National Tour (production nominated at the Oliviers 2017); The York Minster Mystery Plays, at York Minster (Winner of best production York Culture Awards 2016);  Barbarians,Young Vic (production nominated at the Oliviers 2016),

ASSOCIATE ARTIST at the Royal Shakespeare Company since 2017.

CO FOUNDER of the Movement DIrectors’ Association August 2020

Full Production Resume

Teaching at Central