[ CREATIVE SERVICES]
Creative Services
I am passionate about working on making creative productions accessible in their storytelling, and about working with disabled artists across the sector. I am an experienced writer (I WANT TO LIVE, 2022; Quality of Life is Not a Measurable Outcome), poet (Jerwood Fellow 2021-22) and director (Transpose, Barbican Centre; The Acts, Bristol Old Vic; The Acts, Barbican Centre), with a focus on embedding creative access in creative work.
I also work as a creative mentor and creative coach with disabled people trying to work out how to manage their access needs in an inaccessible sector.
[ What I offer ]
Writing
Commissioned writing (poetry, essay, and theatre) and script or text development for theatre and beyond. Previous work published in Rialto, Magma, across the mainstream press, and performed at Glastonbury, Barbican Centre, Lyric Hammersmith, Home Manchester and more.
Fantastic
Hannah Gadsby
Directing and Dramaturgy
Directing, Assistant Directing and Dramaturgy to hold a vision and shape a production. Working across the creative team in a collaborative and exciting way to make daring decisions and bold work.
My god, this type of work is necessary
Vincent Jaskowski-Prowse – Attitude
Creative Access
Access consultancy embedded in a production, exploring both rehearsal room practice and performer needs; and audience needs with relaxed and captioned performances, BSL and audio-description, and access-led creative decisions.
WINNER: Fringe Theatre Awards for Access 2026
Fringe Theatre Awards
Creative Coaching and Mentoring
Working with disabled creatives to either support the development of a specific project, or their individual creative development, working to identify sustainable ways of creative working when access barriers and impairments limit this.
Delivery was so thoughtful and gentle, and so very fully accessible
Participant
Creative Workshops
Delivering creative workshops online or offline, either bespoke to the organisation or off the shelf. These workshops are designed to increase community and connection amongst participants, taking a lived experience approach to using creativity to improve mental health.
They created a really safe space for us to share some of our work
Participant, Writing with Form: Poetry for Actors (RADA)
Performance
As an actor, I am confident taking on disabled (mobility-impaired) roles authentically. I have performed as an actor at Theatre Royal Stratford East, the Barbican Centre, Watford Palace Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith, HOME Manchester and more venues.
Unashamedly loud and proud, Hale comes alive – and is indeed at his best – when he’s making comedy […] he takes command of the stage
Colin Hambrook – Disability Arts Online
SELECTED RECOGNITION
Winner: Offie Award for Staging
Transpose – 2026
Shortlisted: Sky Arts Awards for Theatre
BODY OF WORK – 2026
Jerwood Poetry Fellowship
POETRY – 2021
Winner: Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund – Director / Theatremaker of the Year
QUALITY OF LIFE IS NOT A MEASURABLE OUTCOME – 2021
SELECTED PROJECTS
Writing
- KAOS (writers’ room), Netflix, 2019-2021
- I Want to Live, Theatre Royal Stratford East 2022
- Quality of Life is Not A Measurable Outcome, HOME Manchester, Barbican Centre etc 2021-2025
- Frankenstein, Transpose, Barbican Centre, 2025
Directing
- Romeo and Juliet R&D, various locations
- The Acts, 2026, Old Vic, Bristol
- Transpose 2025, Pit Party, Barbican Centre, London
- Telepresence Residency 2024 with University of Brighton
- The Acts, 2024, Barbican Centre, London
- Self & Other, 2023, HOME, Manchester
- The Crip Monologues, 2023, Camden People’s Theatre, London (curator)
- The Crip Monologues, 2023, Bloomsbury Theatre, London
- CRIPtic Pit Party, 2021, Barbican Centre, London
- PostHuman, Rachel Gadsden, film and performance, UCL, London
Selected Workshops
- Experimental! an online retreat for disabled writers with CRIPtic Arts and Spread the Word
- Poetry & Place, postal poetry course for Spread the Word and Lewisham Council
- Happiness, the Wellcome Trust
- Poetry for Actors, RADA
- Incubate: developing disabled-led organisations, CRIPtic Arts
- Writing the Body Deptford Lit Fest
- Building a Sustainable Creative Practice, Rebecca Swift Foundation
- Launchpad Writers’ Residential, CRIPtic Arts