about

I work in and around theatre as a writer, dramaturg and conversation host. Often that involves research, leading workshops, and producing/stage managing events too.

 

I’m interested in writing about theatre as a creative practice, a collaborative practice, and an informal critical practice that anyone can participate in. In 2021 I published a book I co-wrote with my friend Andy Field, Performance in an Age of Precarity (Methuen). 

 

Since 2012 I’ve hosted Theatre Club – like a book group, but talking about plays and performances – where I’ve had some of my most memorable conversations about theatre. I wrote about Theatre Club for the (terrifyingly expensive) Routledge Companion to Audiences and the PerformingArts. 

 

Some works I've been lucky enough to be involved in as dramaturg: Selina Thompson's Salt., Paula Varjack's #thebabyquestion, Varjack-Lowry's iMelania, Harry Josephine Giles's Everything I Bought and How It Made Me Feel.

 

With my friends Mary Paterson and Diana Damian Martin, I’m co-host of Something Other and the Department of Feminist Conversations: interrelated projects that make space for slow, creative, critical thinking about art and politics and life. 

 

I’m an active member of the Lambeth Mutual Aid collective, on the board of the Dramaturgs' Network, and an inactive member of the Designers and Cultural Workers branch of United Voices of the World.

 

I don't come around here much but when I do I hope it's with meaning and joy.