Founder and Artistic Director Ragged Edge Productions.
Award-winning rural and community touring productions and community co-creation projects with a specialism in audio.
Devised Audio Adventures production strand with many site-specific projects.
Productions include: The Mystery of the Pirate Lagoon, The Mystery of the Blue Moon Saloon, [NAME OF YOUR VILLAGE] the Puppet Musical! Keeping the Lights On. The Chef Show by Nick Ahad from an original idea by Stefan Escreet: Winner of 2018 NRTF Rural Touring Award for Stage Performance of the Year and Cumbria Life Culture Award 2019.
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Community Creative HDRC Art of Wellbeing Project 2025, Kind Project (Rosehill Theatre).
Theatre Lead Artist Prism Arts (2022 – 2023) delivering arts programmes that empower people with disabilities.
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Vice Chair of Cumbria Arts and Culture Network and Artistic Advisor to ACTion with Communities in Cumbria.
Clore Leadership Programme Short Course Cohort 46 November 2015
Associate Director Theatre by the Lake, Keswick 2001 to 2013 – directed over 40 theatre productions and responsible for new writing policy and development. Established Young Writers Group and Over 55s Theatre sessions.
Freelance Theatre Director since 1999. Productions at Watford Palace Theatre, Leeds Playhouse, New Vic Stoke, Dukes Lancaster, Chester Gateway, M6 Theatre Company, Quondam Theatre Company, Mikron Theatre Co and Brewery Arts Centre. Numerous workshops for various clients. Visiting director for final year productions at LIPA, RWCMD, Edge Hill University and MMU.
BBC Radio Drama Producer Manchester 2008-09 and continuing as a freelance. Radio Acting Tutor at Manchester Metropolitan University. Also running Radio Acting Days radio acting workshops for the public (Facebook @RadioActingDays)
Professional Actor since 1983. Fifty theatre productions and work in TV, Radio and film and a commercial with Burt Lancaster!
Seasons and individual productions at: Royal National Theatre, Young Vic, Birmingham Rep., West Yorkshire Playhouse, Liverpool Playhouse, Dukes Lancaster, Library Theatre Manchester, York Theatre Royal, Bolton Octagon, Greenwich Theatre, New Vic. Stoke, Contact Theatre Manchester, Chester Gateway, Cambridge Theatre Co., Derby Playhouse, Oldham Coliseum and Bubble Theatre Company (tour of Africa).
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