Creative Portfolio

[ POETRY ]

POETRY

Published in Magma, Zoeglossia and more. Performed at Barbican Centre, Glastonbury, HOME Manchester and other venues. Jerwood Poetry Fellowship 2020/2021, founder of the Disabled Poets’ Prize

[ DIRECTING ]

Directing: TRANSPOSE – SUBVERSE

From CRIPtic Arts’ showcases to Transpose’s Subverse at the Barbican Centre I am a keen director focused on new writing and multidisciplinary work.

Subverse featured a line-up of trans artists with powerful, genre-defying performances that blend music, text, poetry and sonic installations to explore trans experience, identity and liberation.

I was awarded an OFFIE for staging for my work on Transpose: Subverse.

Directing: CRIPtic Arts – The Acts

The Acts is an annual showcase of work by some of the UK’s most exciting theatremakers. Directed by myself and produced by CRIPtic Arts, it features a selection of four daring pieces, each showcased both as an exceptional work of its own, and as part of a wider cohort of disabled theatremakers.

Within it, I work on development and dramaturgy with the selected writers and performers, after which their work is staged at a major venue, previous including the Barbican Centre (pictured), HOME Manchester, Bristol Old Vic and Tobacco Factory Theatres (Bristol).

This work reflects my passion for new work, emerging writers, and development of opportunities and careers.

[ PERFORMANCE ]

PERFORMANCE & WrITING: FRANKENSTEIN

Frankenstein explored the divide in each of us between the doctor and monster. An opera for song (CN Lester) and speech (myself), Frankenstein easily retells the well-known story while asking what it means to be monstrous and who gets to decide which bodies are monstrous.

As well as performing in it, I wrote the libretto, alongside CN Lester, who composed and sang it.

This was first performed at Transpose at the Barbican Centre in Autumn 2025.

[ PERFORMANCE ]

Performance & WRITING: QUALITY OF LIFE IS NOT A MEASURABLE OUTCOME

My solo show, Quality of Life is Not a Measurable Outcome has been performed on stages including Lyric Hammersmith, Barbican Centre, HOME Manchester, Watford Palace Theatre, Glastonbury, and more. I was awarded Director/Theatremaker of the Year by the Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund for my development of this show.

Quality of Life asks what it means to survive when near death – and then come into interaction with the systems that govern and define the lives of disabled people, and how you survive and flourish within a system intent on squashing and killing you.