Theatre
The Off-Off-Off-Broadway Company
The brilliant Jaacq Hugo and I co-founded this award-winning theatre company, for which I’ve written, directed and produced several shows.
We first hit the Buxton Fringe in 2009, became a trio with the fabulous Laura Louise Baker in 2010, and have had a string of successful pieces across the UK since. Peaceful has seen a number of sold-out performances, while Back Door picked up two awards.
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Clothes To Fall Apart In
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The Sexes
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Peaceful
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Back Door
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Hidden Mother
Solo shows
More recently, I’ve written and performed three one-man shows incorporating my love of folklore storytelling: A Curse of Saints, Mr Fox and the Arts Council-funded I Was A Teenage Bisexual.
Awards & Nominations
BEST NEW WRITING (NOMINATED): I Was A Teenage Bisexual (Buxton Fringe 2023)
BEST NEW WRITING (WON): Mr Fox (Buxton Fringe 2021)
BEST ACTOR (NOMINATED): Mr Fox (Buxton Fringe 2021)
BEST PRODUCTION (NOMINATED): Mr Fox (Buxton Fringe 2021)
JOHN BEECHER MEMORIAL AWARD (WON): Back Door (Buxton Fringe, 2014)
BEST COMEDY SHOW (WON): Back Door (Greater Manchester Fringe, 2014)
Other theatre work
Strangers On A Train (2024). Left: Lewis Bowkett (Charles Bruno), right: me. Photo by Clare Choubey.
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.
For the 2025-6 season, I’ve directed Patrick Hamilton’s Gaslight®.
Gaslight®
by Patrick Hamilton
A fogbound London, 1880. Bella Manningham lives an upper-middle-class existence but she is constantly on edge, in fear that she is losing her mind. The reproaches – and frequent disappearances – of her attractive but stern husband only increase her anxiety.
One night, another cause for concern comes knocking on her door – a private investigator who claims that Bella’s husband isn’t who he says she is, and that she is in very real danger. Who can Bella trust? Is she really losing her grip on reality?
Patrick Hamilton’s Gaslight is 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.
This amateur production of "Gaslight®" is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk.