I am Associate Head for Performance in the School of Arts and teach mainly on the Theatre courses. I am also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and have taught Theatre and Performance using various approaches to teaching and assessment as either a teacher, External Examiner or reviewer at several Universities in the UK since 2005. I gained an MA in Contemporary Theatre Practice and a PhD through practice from Lancaster University. My research practice includes academic writing, live performance, theatre, creative writing, video art and installation art and often reflects on the nature of participation in arts practice, the relation between empathy and proximity, and questions surrounding place, space and identity.
In Higher Education I have taught many approaches to acting and making performance. This has included teaching acting for theatre; acting and presenting for the camera, radio and live performance; directing for theatre; writing for theatre and the screen; and, I have supervised many individual projects at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
I conduct my current research through both writing practice (academic and creative) and performance (theatre, live art, video installation and site-specific work). My research areas of interest include digital media, subjectivity and identity; the Gothic and the Uncanny; theatricality of the object and the perception of agency; and audience experience within participatory/interactive performance. I have worked on many interdisciplinary projects with Sociologists, Designers and Developers.
Writer and Director of ‘Do as I do, My Love’ a play commissioned by Middlesbrough Borough Council and sponsored by Thirteen Group, performed at Middlesbrough Town Hall November 2018.
Director for NSFW by Lucy Kirkwood commissioned by ‘Mock the Weak’, an international conference of comedy, ARC, Stockton, September, 2016.
Performer in Georgina Starr’s opening exhibition I, Cave, MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art), Middlesbrough, UK, 2014.
Associate Director for ‘The Andy Warhol Project’ with T. Power for Bath Spa University, Full Tilt Theatre Company, 2008.
Performer in development showings and workshops on the physical realisation of The Medead, a performance by international New York based performance practitioner Fiona Templeton in Nuffield Theatre at Lancaster University, UK and Arts Admin, London, 2002.
