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Welcome

I’m a sound designer and composer, based in south London. My theatre work spans new writing, devised work, classic texts and rediscoveries, including collaborations with directors Tinuke Craig, James MacDonald, Katie Mitchell, Matthew Xia and Anna Ledwich. I’m Associate Artist of The Faction, Silent Opera, and Orange Tree Theatre, and I’ve trained and worked on Radio Drama with the BBC. I run a choir in Bayswater, and collaborate with the London Choral Sinfonia.

I'm a Visiting Lecturer at RCSSD and have run workshops for the Almeida, TheatreCraft, the University of Westminster and NT Connections. I’m always keen to introduce people to the work I do, most especially those who know little about it, or might assume it’s not for them. That used to be me - until ten years ago, I hardly ever even went to the theatre!

Biography (for programme or publicity use)

Theatre includes Cruise, The Night of the Iguana (West End); Shed: Exploded View (Manchester Royal Exchange); A Raisin in the Sun (Headlong); The School for Scandal, Crooked Dances (RSC); A Doll’s House, Part 2, The Way of the World (Donmar); Twelfth Night (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Village Idiot (with Ramps on the Moon), One Night in Miami (Nottingham Playhouse); Henry V (Shakespeare’s Globe/Headlong); One For Sorrow (Royal Court); The Children (Royal Court/Broadway); The Divine Mrs S, Sea Creatures, Linck & Mülhahn, Dry PowderSex with Strangers, Labyrinth (Hampstead); Ophelias Zimmer (Schaubühne, Berlin/Royal Court); Coram Boy, Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre); Hamlet (Bristol Old Vic); Uncle Vanya, The Circle, Amsterdam, The Lottery of Love, Blue/Heart, Little Light, The Distance (Orange Tree, Richmond); The Ridiculous Darkness (Gate); Beckett Triple Bill (Jermyn Street Theatre); The Gaul (Hull Truck); The Homecoming (Theatre Royal, Bath); Loot (Park Theatre/Watermill); Toast (Park Theatre/59E59 Theaters, New York); Jane Wenham (Out of Joint); Waiting for Godot (Sheffield Crucible); My Eyes Went Dark (Traverse, Edinburgh/59E59); Cargo (Arcola); CommonWealth (Almeida); Creve Coeur (Print Room); A Kettle of Fish (Yard); Cuzco, Wink (Theatre503); Art, The Syndicate, The Mirror Crack’d, My Cousin Rachel, The Habit of Art, Fabric, Invincible, Johnny Got His Gun (National Tours); Switzerland, Spamalot, The Glass Menagerie, Strangers On A Train (English Theatre, Frankfurt); The Cardinal, Kiki's Delivery Service, Our Ajax (Southwark Playhouse); Mrs Lowry and Son (Trafalgar Studios); Martine, Black Jesus, Somersaults (Finborough); The Hotel Plays (Langham Hotel); Kan Yama Kan and New Jibla (59 Productions).

Opera and dance includes The Limit (Royal Ballet); Miranda (Opéra Comique, Paris); Silent Opera’s Hansel and Gretel (BYO/Opera Holland Park), Vixen (Vaults/Helsinki/Beijing) and Carmen:Remastered (Royal Opera House/Barbican); SCRAWW (Trebah Gardens).

Streaming and hybrid productions include Sunnymead Court, The System, 15 Heroines, The Haunting of Alice Bowles, Barnes’ People, Cruise, Assembly.

As Associate, The Island (Young Vic); Fleabag (Soho Theatre). Associate Artist of The Faction, and of Silent Opera.

Radio includes Home Front (BBC Radio 4); F*cked-up Bedtime Stories for Adults (English Touring Theatre, podcasts).

 

Awards

Best Sound Designer, OffWestEnd.com Awards 2022, for Old Bridge. Nominated ten times; Shortlisted 2021 for Sunnymead Court.

Shortlisted for Best Sound Design at the 2019 and 2021 BroadwayWorld UK Awards.

The 2022 Olivier Awards saw nominations for three productions I contributed to: Cruise (Best New Play), Dragons & Mythical Beasts (Best Family Show) and winner Old Bridge (Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre).