As a playwright, director & performer, my work sits in the space between the classic and contemporary
Eurydice Had Been Loved
Orpheus is a tortured artist, Eurydice is a bubbly partier. They’re both trying to figure out how to love when they’re so deeply broken.
This contemporary retelling reimagines the tragic lovers as a Black lesbian couple and delves into the high price love demands.
When pain runs deep, can love run deeper? What if you never get the chance to try?
Developed with support from
Coming Soon
〰️
Coming Soon 〰️
Why be the bigger person when you can be the last one standing?
Faye Draper’s tale of a dinner party with a dark secret. Alex and Laura quickly learn that their friend Mia may not let them all leave alive.
Closure wields dark comedy and vicious catharsis to explore feminine rage, women's rights and – more importantly – women's wrongs.
Closure (director)
“a refreshingly loud blast of rage”
Let Me Count the Ways
Let Me Count the Ways is a spoken word show about intimacy, boundaries and healing. It looks at how love can help us face the difficult, complicated mess of life. Featuring sapphic witches getting day drunk in summer and queer femmes swapping highlighters, it premiered at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre in 2021 before touring across the country
“If this is what post-pandemic theatre will be like — a celebration of queer love and fat acceptance, then we certainly have a bright future ahead.”
Medea wants only what she’s owed: dominion over all Greece. She only desires what she’s due: the unquestioning devotion of the man she loves.
In this one-person-show, we meet Medea on the cusp of the life she’s about to begin with the “heroic” Jason.
What is Love to a Goddess?
“It’s hard work being the only person on a stage for that time, but Maz made it look effortless, and if anyone ever asks me “What is love to a Goddess”, I’ll be able to answer now.”
Aftercare
Love, kink & marshmallows
In the garden outside a BDSM play party, Tobi supports scene newbie Bree through his first Dom drop. By the end of the conversation, there's something sweet and romantic blossoming between them.
JB Shorts
Burdens
Like mother, like daughter
Ada grew up watching her mother, Therese abused by her father. She swore that life would never be hers. But in falling for her girlfriend, Ada finds herself in the same toxic cycle.
Therese has endured at the hands of her husband Augustine for decades. But she wasn’t prepared to see her daughter slip out of her reach, into the same trap.
Vignettes with Greater Manchester Rape Crisis
Please Fear the Reaper
Respect the dead, or end up amongst them
Nick Atkinson-Weber – as posh as he is charming – lost his fiance to the Underworld and needs a crack team to get Joe back. But all is not as it seems, with Joe watching it all unfold alongside a chorus of dead souls.
Drawing on the cross-cultural mythos of pulp-era Sword and Sorcery, Please Fear the Reaper is a lighthearted warning against hubris (and trusting nepo babies with anything).
MA Acting at LIPA
Box Braids
Some things are better left unsaid, right?
Ijeoma needs her hair done and who else to do it but Ngozi, her oldest and closest friend?
Ijeoma is rebuilding herself after a breakup, Ngozi is struggling to hold onto feelings too dangerous to share. This play is a meditation on Black queer intimacy told through the act of braiding a friend’s hair.
OutStageUs by Hive North
Let’s Stay in Touch
I'm always keen to hear from potential clients, colleagues and collaborators.
Use the contact form below and I’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
