EL PAPI & THE COWBOY
Role: Co-creator & Dancer
Created and performed with Rufi Oswald
Status: In Development
A playful and sensitive dance duet exploring queer intimacy, heritage and identity, mixing Latin Ballroom, contact improvisation and spoken text.
Work in Progress sharing was presented at UCalgary Dance Movement Research Festival (November 2025).
Research & Development supported by: DSW Calgary, Lisa Ullman Travel Scholarship, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks and UCalgary Dance.
TRASH ANGEL
Role: Playwright & Performer
Status: In Development
‘It’s a neon sign that says ‘It’s Britney Bitch’. And it is. It’s Britney. And she’s so bright. Like an angel. Like an angel with glitter in her veins. Some girls are lucky like that. I just have dirt under my fingernails from digging.”
A former teen pop star dead in a bathtub, a gogo dancing time travelling angel and ingénue who would do anything to be famous. Trash Angel is a solo show with backup dancers: a collision of high philosophy and low art, filtered through queer culture, pop culture, and club culture. Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s “Angel of History,” (from ‘On the Concept of History), this show is part cabaret, part epic poem, part thriller murder mystery and part fever dream music video.
Directed by Jess Edwards
Sound Design by Dinah Mullen
Produced by Jess Sweet
Developed with support from Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice.
Full play text available for reading.
RANCH KID
Role: Playwright
Status: In Development
Ranch Kid is a semi-autobiographical theatre project exploring the intersections of rural life, masculinity, sexuality, and family legacy. The work follows a forty-something gay man who returns to his family ranch in Alberta to help his father manage the land. Through storytelling and humour, the project examines relationships between gay sons and their fathers, as well as the complex ties many queer people have with the rural places they left when moving to urban centres.
Directed by Eric Rose
First reading undertaken at West Village Playhouse, supported by Ghost River Theatre (September 2026)
Play text sample available for reading.
DANCING THROUGH A MIDLIFE CRISIS
Role: Co-Creator & Dancer
Co-Created with Barbara English (Director) and Deanna Witwer (Dancer)
Status: In development
Three artists in their early forties, investigate the lived realities of being mid-career dance artists and asks how artistic practice evolves alongside changing identities, responsibilities, and life structures. It is research as practice, investigating the possibilities and challenges of creating in mid-life through the act of making together.The project imagines a utopian space where multiple lived realities coexist, where the contradictions, complexities, and hard-won lessons of adulthood are not smoothed over, but held together as sources of connection and creative possibility. Combining dance, storytelling, design, and autobiographical material, the work will reflect experiences of midlife that are both deeply shared and highly personal.
Supported by Calgary Arts Development Authority Project Grant.
POPODYSSEY
Role: Playwright & Director
Status: Script in Further Development and available for Production
Love Island, an inflatable Trojan horse and a thirst trap bot dressed up like a nymph. This epic storytelling show collides ancient Greece with modern pop culture in this high energy reworking of Homer’s Odyssey, told through text and movement. An ensemble of young adults undertake a journey to find a home, a father and their place in this mad, complex world of fake lips, telling fake news in deep fake utopias.
Developed in collaboration with final year students at Northern School of Contemporary Dance. Presented as part of Light Night at Leeds Corn Exchange and then toured to EnableUs Sheffield, Harrogate Theatre, Stephen Joseph Theatre and York Theatre Royal (2023-2024)
Supported by: Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Light Night Leeds, Leeds Corn Exchange, EnableUs Sheffield, Harrogate Theatre, Stephen Joseph Theatre and York Theatre Royal
Full (Two ACT) play text available for reading.
GLITTERBOMB DANCERS
Role: Creative Producer and Director
Status: Ongoing Project, started in 2021
Glitterbomb Dancers is a Yorkshire-based ensemble of recently graduated dancers from a range of underrepresented backgrounds. The company’s distinctive approach brings together contemporary dance and traditional working-class cabaret, creating work that sits between art and entertainment. Glitterbomb Dancers creates bold, accessible work that challenges the boundaries between dance, cabaret and popular entertainment. The company draws on the energy, humour and theatricality of working-class cabaret while combining it with contemporary dance practices and the skills of emerging professional dancers. A key aim of the project is to support emerging artists to start and sustain careers in the arts and culture sector, while creating opportunities for dancers whose backgrounds and experiences are often underrepresented within the industry. The company makes work for a range of settings, from short-from pieces for cabaret, clubs and festivals to longer, full-length works, as well as collaborations with artists such as drag legend David Hoyle, Emilyn Claid and Azara Meghie. Glitterbomb Dancers have opened for a number of Drag Race queens including Jinxx Monsoon, The Vivienne, Cheryl Hole and Baga Chips.
Glitterbomb Dancers have been presented and supported by: Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Arts Council England, Leeds Inspired, Old Woollen, Duckie, EnableUs Sheffield, Clams in their Eyes, Happy Valley Pride, Curious Festival, Harrogate Theatre, Dukes Theatre, Manchester International Festival/Aviva Studios.
RAVE
Director/Choreographer
Created with final years students at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance.
Status: Past Project (2025)
Performed by a cast of 30 this was a tribute to the chaotic beauty of 90s rave and queer cultures, complete with a live DJ and camcorder live feed. A deconstructed rave that reassembled for a moment before disappearing into a cloud of smoke.
Presented by Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Light Night Leeds and Test Bed Leeds (2025)
BRITNEY In WONDERLAND
Role: Creative Producer and Co-Director (with Imogen Reeve)
Created by Glitterbomb Dancers
Status: Past Project (2024)
Part cabaret, part dance show and part msuic video come to life. Glitterbomb is back and they’ve fallen down a Y2K rabbit hole, into a Wonderland of learly 2000 pop references: pop divas, boy bands, TMZ, low rise jeans and endless selection of iconic pop hits. The white Rabbit is ‘Bringing Sexy Back’, The Queen of Hearts is looking for her ‘Genie in a Bottle’. And the Mad Hatter is hosting a tea party in Ibiza – ‘that’s hot!’ A ridiculous, delusional hot pink and denim fantasy, told through Glitterbomb Dancers’ signature high energy dancing, drag, comedy and chaotic queer aesthetic. We’ll party like it’s 2007 and wake up the next morning wondering: ‘was it but a dream?’
Supported by: EnableUS Sheffield, Old Woollen and Northern School of Contemporary Dance
Back to The FUCHSIA (SERIES)
Role: Co-Director (with Imogen Reeve)
Status: Past Project Series
Back to the Fuchsia I: Y2K (2022)
Back to the Fuchsia II: 80’s (2023)
Back to the Fuchsia III: Fade to Black (2024)
Back to the Fuchsia was part a three-year series of large scale interactive performances at Centre for Live Art Yorkshire, with 45-60 performers, set across several rooms. The work mixed combined dance, text, and interactive and one to one theatre.
An immersive performance that revived the hyperreal: a copy of a copy of a copy in which the original had been lost… or perhaps had never existed to begin with. A disco fever dream where anything could happen and nothing was real. But it was real. But it wasn’t real, was it? That’s hot. Cancelled.
Developed and presented by the Northern School of Contemporary Dance at Centre for Live Art Yorkshire.
DAVID HOYLE’S STILL GOT IT
Role: Co-choreographer
Status: Past Project (2024)
This spectacular finale to a three-week takeover of Aviva Studios returned David Hoyle to his natural habitat: live on stage, joined by a pick and mix bag of titillating talent from the worlds of burlesque, music, drag, film, circus and cabaret. Part variety show, part apocalyptic flourish, David Hoyle: Still Got It..!? brought together the best of seaside culture and the avant-garde for one night only – as only David can. Isthis the end of the world, or just the end of the pier? Has David Hoyle: Still Got It..!? You decide.
Produced by Mancehster Internaional Festival and Aviva Studios
This show was reproduced on one a smaller scale as ‘David Hoyle and the Glitterbomb Dancers’ at Old Woollen, Leeds (2024)
