Producing

I have been the lead producer for national performance tours, festival shows, and site-specific productions. Notable producing work includes:

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The Container

This play by Clare Bayley about refugees traveling to England in a shipping container – staged inside an actual shipping container – sold out its Edinburgh Fringe run, won a Scotsman Fringe First Award and an Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award, and continues to be produced around the world.

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My Father and Other Superheroes

In addition to the UK tour of this one-person show by award-winning poet, Nick Makoha, I supported a concurrent programme to develop the careers of selected BAME writer-performers, including Yomi Ṣode and Gaël Le Cornec, with mentoring support from Inua Ellams MBE and Lemn Sissay OBE among others.

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Fever Pitch

Nick Hornby’s semi-autobiographical football novel was adapted as a musical for Highbury Opera Theatre; the production was staged at London’s iconic Union Chapel to huge media coverage. The photo on this page is from that production (Credit: Claudia Marinaro). I also produced HOT’s Covid-delayed follow-up, an opera adaptation of Sir Michael Palin’s one-act comedy, ‘The Weekend’, staged at the Bloomsbury Theatre, also to significant media coverage.

Site-specific producing includes Re:bourne, which reimagined the historic town of Sittingbourne via a multi-arts takeover of shops, buildings and public spaces (produced with Workers of Arts) and Culture Detectives, which took schoolchildren on a mystery tour of the former Network Rail offices underneath Waterloo Station (produced with A New Direction and Punchdrunk).