Completed a PhD research in social theatre around the topic of play/playful tactics in activist performance practices (2022).
Currently I'm a research associate on the CARE Project (AHRC) led by James Thompson (link HERE to academic site, link HERE to public platform), a project looking at care, as practiced by socially engaged artists and by careworkers. Check the website for upcoming public events.
Work as a social theatre practitioner with Theatre in Flow, a theatre company committed to championing marginalised voices, Rochdale, Greater Manchester (2022)
Visiting lecturer, teaching ‘Performance Activism’ as a 3rd year specialism course at the University of Manchester (2021)
Visiting lecturer on the MA Applied Theatre course at the University of Warwick (2021 and 2022)
Researcher on the arts/health (AHRC-funded) CARE Project
Legislative theatre project: working with a group of practitioners on methods in legislative theatre (a political theatre format that involves policymakers in a forum performance, to bring about new policy and legislative changes around specific issues). Funded by Arts Council UK, led by Katy Rubin (TONYC), with Dan Boyden (The Change Collective) and Gavin Crichton (Active Inquiry)
Current points of interest: forms of creative disobedience in activism; playful strategies in protests; the importance of laughter in spaces of tension.
Wrote an academic article calling for more activist-researchers in social theatre, and for our work to be more aligned with/serving the communities, activists and artists we study: Disrupting the hierarchy of knowledge production: the case of documenting social theatre in Palestine- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14682761.2021.1888565 [this is open access]
Worked as a research consultant for In Place of War (funded by AHRC) to evaluate the long-term social and economic impact of support for grassroots arts groups in places of armed conflict and political violence (2020).
Theatre of the Oppressed with NAJE: forum theatre pieces and workshops in various contexts.
Forum Theatre workshops at Fleury Prison (women's section), Paris, France (2013).
Founded Frontierra, an organisation dedicated to advocating Migrants Rights through participatory Community Theatre. Fiscally Sponsored by Fractured Atlas, NYC, based at Immigrant Movement International , Corona, Queens, New York.
Worked with a team on DREAMers, an investigative theatre project with The Civilians (Documentary Theatre) on the effects of Deferred Action and the potential DREAM Act for undocumented immigrants in the USA.
Ongoing project: translating into French, Spanish and Hungarian a detailed collection of Social Theatre activities, games and devising processes for practitioners internationally. If interested in this project, please contact me.