I started writing poetry and scripted character comedies alongside actor training at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, using improv and performance as a gateway to creating my own stories.
After adapting a successful online children’s show, I secured ACE funding to undertake a program of self-led writer development, producing multiple scripts and honing them with an assortment of brilliant writers, teachers and dramaturgs.
While mainly a theatre-maker, I have also trained with the BFI, BBC, LFS and John Yorke Foundation, and written multiple TV pilots, short stories and a novel.
See my Writer's CV, or look below for more info.
TV
I know how to have fun. I’m like totally wild and sexually active, actually.
6 x 25 min comedy drama; co-written with Lily Streames
When a homesy bride-to-be Cath discovers her fiancé is cheating on her, she is forced to move in with her chaotic, city-gay cousin Tobias, leading to an unlikely friendship as the two try to navigate the mess of millennial life.
Plays
In their entwined sleep they exchanged arms and legs / In their dreams their brains took each other hostage — ‘Lovesong’, Ted Hughes
A supernatural family drama about sleepwalking and sexual identity.
It’s about those who are remembered and those who are not. And all the people who wouldn’t fit neatly into the story books.
Hamlet’s fellow of infinite jest has returned from the dead — and he is here to make merry!
An existential tragicomedy exploring the untold story of Yorick.
Bolo
Children like my shows, but I forbid myself to play for them, because children are already happy. Adults, on the other hand, forgot how to be happy, they lost their way. — Slava Polunin
A dystopian black comedy about a children’s clown in a world of next to no children.
You always remember the first time you see one — a dead person.
A paranormal psychodrama about identity, isolation and ghosts.
Pleasance, London (Downstairs), October 2021
Let’s go, Cloud Cadets!
A ‘hilarious and adventurous’ journey above the clouds and across the lands, made on Zoom to broaden the horizons of children and families during lockdown.
Online with Creation Theatre, the Mercury and New Wolsey Theatres, 2020-21
Short Plays
Two boys, one real, play a game.
An existential comedy about the imagination.
Golden Goose Theatre, 2022; Etcetera Theatre 2023
Outline
Three ages explore the beginning of a life, the dynamic of play and the ‘helpful’ advice people offer along the way.
Golden Goose Theatre, 2022
Pasta Bleeds
An absurd little farce about food and class: a sharp, glamorous hostess — those sacrificed for her prowess.
Waterloo East Theatre, 2019