As a young graduate, I spent a while shovelling mud in a network of Victorian tunnels beneath Waterloo Station. That was my production internship at (what was then)  the Old Vic Tunnels.

More recently, I’ve had a much more pleasant experience developing my skills at the  Lace Market Theatre, a brilliant am-dram theatre in Nottingham run entirely by volunteers. I’ve got stuck in at different levels, from starring as Guy Haines in Craig Warner’s adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers On A Train to assistant-directing on Jean Anouilh’s Ring Round the Moon to working the coffee bar, helping out with castings, greeting audiences and scanning tickets as a Front of House team member.

I am now directing the 2025-6 season opener, Patrick Hamilton’s Gaslight®. It’s the dark and thrilling tale of a marriage shrouded in suspicion – a play whose power, proven by the recent usage of ‘gaslighting’, continues to reverberate.