theatre practitioner
new writing | dramaturgy | storytelling
I am a dramaturg and theatre maker who specialises in new writing, working with playwrights with rigour, truthfulness, imagination, and play. Since training at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, most of my work has been either devised and part-written or new writing and I have judged film and script-writing competitions for a variety of institutions.
I love work that is feminist, with a majority female/non-binary cast, has strong physical or devised components, and leans towards the gothic. Early-stage is fine.
If you have a script that you’d like some support with, or are looking for dramaturgical support for work in development, then please get in touch.
selected work and interests
In the dark winter of 2022, in an old church hall in Paisley, we explored the ways trauma manifests in the body using aerial silks, movement, text, and animation.
The Museum of the Sea and What Happened There was company devised, with text written by myself and a collaboratively developed story.
Images Above left and right: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan; centre and top: photos taken by cast.
I have worked as a dramaturg for pieces with and without text; recently Between Earth and Moon, which was performed at Summerhall as part of Manipulate Festival 2023.
My directing roles have always had a huge dramaturgical element and it is this I’d like to focus on now and in the future.
As script reader, offering dramaturgical support, I have worked with numerous playwrights, including Zoë Bullock, winner of Playwrights’ Studio New Playwrighting Award 2021, and Charlie Ward, currently developing a play for BBC Radio Scotland.