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The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe

Based on the book by CS.Lewis
Lead Associate Director
Birmingham Rep Company 2023-24
Gillian Lynne Theatre [West End] 2022-23
UK & Ireland Tour 2021-22

The magical world of Narnia live on stage. A reimagining of CS.Lewis's classic book with puppetry, flying, illusions, actor-musicians, dancers and fight choreography. 

Kissed By The Flame

By Simon Perrott
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Director
Pleasance Theatre, London 2023

Inspired by events from Perrott's own life, Kissed By A Flame is a window into the final months of a once-in-a-lifetime love.

Jamie knows what it's like to live without the love of your life, his partner Teddy has been dead for 11 years. But when he discovers Teddy's diary from that painful last 18-month period he must face all the grief and unresolved issues that come with it. It's time to close this chapter of his life.

buckets

By Adam Barnard
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Director
Charles Court Training Company
Courtyard Theatre 2023

A unique collection of over 30 interconnected scenes that all ask: how do you deal with death? A play that beautifully explores life's complex patchwork of highs and lows.

Performed by an ensemble of nine in a sea of ropes that pull, ripple, connect, and twist around their lives.

A Christmas Carol

Based on the book by Charles Dickens
Adapted by David Edgar
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Assistant Director
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, RSC 2022-23

The smash-hit RSC production returns to the Royal Shakespeare Company.  Adrian Edmondson stars as Ebenezer Scrooge in David Edgar's critically acclaimed adaptation. 

In 1843, Charles Dickens wanted to write a political manifesto to expose and condemn the abject misery of the Victorian poor. Instead, he wrote a short story...

Will Pickvance : Half-Man Half-Piano

By Will Pickvance & James C Ball
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Director & Co-Creator
Assembly, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2022

A new show from Edinburgh-based piano virtuoso Will Pickvance (Anatomy of a Piano, Pianohood, First Piano On The Moon).

 

Original piano works and songs jostle for position with quirky anecdotes and Pickvance's charming idiosyncrasies.  A smorgasbord of tangents including Neighbours, Liam Gallagher and weddings... but ultimately, who is Will Pickvance?

Are You Being Murdered?

By David Semple
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Director
Pleasance, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2022

World premiere of a new murder mystery starring Arthur Bostrom ('Allo 'Allo!) set in the golden age of BBC sitcoms, from the acclaimed Father Brown writer David Semple.

A supporting artist's job is to be invisible, inscrutable, and not to pull focus from the stars... and Jamie Button does his best to follow these rules, until he witnesses a murder on the set of a popular sitcom

Punk Rock

By Simon Stephens
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Director
Court Theatre Training Company
Courtyard Theatre, London 2022

Set in the library of a private grammar school, Punk Rock follows seven high-achieving teenagers preparing for their mock

A-Levels while navigating the pressures of teenage life. A slow-building story of violence at school told with compelling depth and tension.

All That

By Shaun Kitchener
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Director
Kings Head Theatre, London 2021

The headline production of the Kings Head Theatre's Queer Season.  All That takes a profoundly honest look at modern relationships and is a razor-sharp riposte to the idea that there’s ever a ‘right’ way to be gay.

 

Winner - Best Play Raising Awareness

London Pub Theatre Awards 2021


Nominated for two Off-West End Awards.

Amelie The Musical

Music by Daniel Messé
Lyrics by Daniel Messé and Nathan Tysen
Book by Craig Lucas 
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Associate Director
Criterion Theatre [West End] 2021
The Other Palace 2019-20

Watermill Theatre + UK & Ireland Tour 2019

Based on the five-time Oscar-nominated film, Amelie the Musical is brought to life by an astonishing cast of actor-musicians.

 

Nominated for three Olivier Awards and

the Grammy for Best Musical Theatre Album

Wonder of the World

By David Lindsey-Abaire
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Director
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
The Caird Studio, Cardiff 2019

Cass leaves her husband Kip after discovering his sexual fetish for Barbie heads. She runs away to Niagara Falls in search of freedom, enlightenment, and the meaning of life.

 

Instead, she meets a suicidal alcoholic, a lonely tour boat captain, bickering private detectives, and a clown therapist.

Ruffian On The Stair

By Joe Orton
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Assistant Director
The Hope Theatre, London 2019

Joyce    Have you got an appointment today?

Mike      Yes, I’m to be at King’s Cross station at eleven. I’m

              meeting a man in the toilet.

Joyce    You always go to such interesting places.

One day a strange man appears asking for a room. He begins taunting the woman and comes close to viciousness.

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Assistant Director
The Hope Theatre, London 2019

Joyce    Have you got an appointment today?

Mike      Yes, I’m to be at King’s Cross station at eleven. I’m

              meeting a man in the toilet.

Joyce    You always go to such interesting places.

One day a strange man appears asking for a room. He begins taunting the woman and comes close to viciousness.

The Importance of Being Earnest

By Oscar Wilde
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Associate Director
Vaudeville Theatre [West End]  2019

Widely considered one of the funniest plays in English, Wilde’s much loved masterpiece throws love, logic and language into the air to make one of theatre’s most dazzling firework displays.

Michael Fentiman’s witty new production stars Olivier Award-winner Sophie Thompson (Four Weddings and a Funeral), and Jeremy Swift (Downton Abbey). Filmed live for NTLive.

The Fall of Anne Boleyn

By Michael Fentiman
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Associate Director
Tower of London 2018

Anne Boleyn’s final days were spent imprisoned at the Tower of London before her execution in 1536. Using original letters to King Henry VIII and her final speech, The Fall of Anne Boleyn depicts those last treacherous days. Performed with a string quartet of actor-musicians, an opera singer and stellar actors in the heart of The Tower where she died.

Loot

By Joe Orton
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Assistant Director
Park Theatre, London 2017

The 50th anniverssary production of Joe Orton's darkly comic farce. Two young friends stash the proceeds of a bank robbery in an occupied coffin, attempting to hide their spoils from the attentions of a psychopathic policeman, a gold-digging nurse and a grieving widower.

"Orton's savage farce now even funnier and filthier" ★★★★★ The Guardian

Positive

By Shaun Kitchener
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Director
Waterloo East Theatre, London 2014

Positive tells the story of Benji, a twentysomething Londoner living with HIV. One year after his diagnosis, shame and stigma have made him a shell of his former self – now it’s time he grabbed life by the balls and properly started living it again.

Nominated for one Off-West End Award

Hamlet... With No Words

By Speechless Theatre Company
Based on the play by William Shakespeare
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Co-Director
Voila! Europe Theatre Festival 2018
Etcetera Theatre, London

The greatest play on earth. A colossus of the English language. But are there perhaps too many words? 

 

A brand-new version of Shakespeare’s epic, nuanced whirlwind of wordplay turned into a hurricane of physical comedy, energetic buffooning, and beautiful imagery... and without saying a thing.

Much Ado About Nothing

By William Shakespeare
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Co-Director & Actor
Wintershall Estate, Guildford Fringe Festival 2014
RADA Festival, Russell Square 2014

A roaring 1920s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing – accompanied by original music, a 1920s swing band and a trapeze artist. One of Shakespeare's all time great comedies combining hilarity with more serious meditations on honor, shame, and court politics.

Drawn In

By Speechless Theatre Company
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Co-Director & Performer
Theatre N16, London 2016
Kings Head Theatre, London 2017
Tristan Bates Theatre, London 2017

A man wakes up in a room with a pen, a wall, and a set of instructions. Anything he draws on the wall comes into existence at the touch of a button. But what happens when you create more than you can handle?  And what happens when he tries to play God and create a living being?

A dystopian Penny Crayon about life, death

and what holds the key.

All or Nothing?

By Speechless Theatre Company
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Co-Director & Performer
Greenside, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2013
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A man from the world of mime meets a woman from the world of stuff.  He has no physical possession, but an infinite resource of imagination. She is in a cluttered world with everything she needs but is limited by her resources. Can they overcome their differences to find mutual harmony?

“40 minutes of uninterrupted delight in this

surprising and entertaining show”
The Stage

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