DIRECTOR, CHOREOGRAPHER, WRITER, PERFORMER
I am a Canadian artist, currently based in the UK. I make beautiful, collaborative messes in theatre & dance. I am a director, choreographer, writer and performer. My interdisciplinary practice draws on queer subcultures and pop culture. It is often camp, usually cheap and sometimes profound! I work across scales and forms: theatres, clubs, cabaret and immersive site responsive projects.
I am the creative producer and co-director of Glitterbomb Dancers, an LGBTQI+ club and cabaret dance troupe.
My work has been supported, commissioned and presented by organisations and venues including Dance City, The Place, Homotopia, The Unity Theatre, The Albany, Cambridge Junction, Soho Theatre, MDI, Yorkshire Dance, BE Festival GLYPT, Barbican Plymouth, Chisenhale Dance Space, Live Art Bistro, Fierce Festival, Playhouse, Leeds 2023, Light Night Leeds, Leeds Corn Exchange, Old Woollen Leeds, York Theatre Royal, Harrogate Theatre, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Drama Studio Sheffield, EnableUs Sheffield, Theatre Deli Sheffield, Dukes Theatre Lancaster, Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff, The Lowry Manchester, and Aviva Studios/Factory International. I served on the Artistic Advisory Board of National Dance Company Wales.
In 2013 my ‘Rite of Spring’ (created with PanicLab) was name one fo the Guardian’s the best dance production of the year and in 2015 ‘Thesees Beefcack (co-created with PanicLab and Canadian Playwrite Jordan Tannaill) won the Homegrown Award for Best British Production at BE Festival Birmingham.
I have worked extensively as a dramturg, movement director, rehearsal director and mentor for theatre and dance.
I originally trained in classical ballet at the School of Alberta Ballet, I went on to complete a BFA in Playwriting at Concordia University, Montreal, before pursuing an Masters in Advanced Theatre Practice (Directing) and a practice-based PhD in Performing Queer Subjectivity, both at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London.
TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION
I have been teaching Dance & Theatre at University for over 15 years. Since 2018 I have taught at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds, where I am the Programme Lead for the Masters in Dance and Creative Enterprise, and I also coordinate Postgraduate Research Projects. I have previously taught at Leeds Beckett University and Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. I was the External Examiner for the BA (Hons) Professional Dance at Dance City (Newcastle).
I teach across all level of higher education from undergraduate to postgrad. Key areas include: Practice as Research; Choreography and Composition; Directing; Creative Practice and Interdisciplinary Making; Dramaturgy; Movement Direction and Rehearsal Direction; Improvisation & Embodied Practices; Contemporary Technique, Floorwork & Soft Acrobatics; Conditioning for Dance; Contact & Partnering; Acting and Performance Skills; Critical Theory and Research Methods; Dissertation and Research Supervision.
