I am a playwright, director, educator and actor. My plays have won the Pittsburgh Public’s New Play Competition and the Louise Wigglesworth Award. I was shortlisted for the  Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, a finalist for The Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2024, a runner up for The Ambassadors Theatre Group Playwriting award 2024, a finalist for The O’Neill New Play Conference and many more. My plays have been presented and produced world-wide. My work wrestles with the urgency of storytelling in times of change, and the power of live performance as a vessel for truth, empathy, and human connection. 

 

My acting work has seen me performing both in my native UK (West End, regional, UK national tours, and at The Edinburgh Festival) and in Philadelphia where I now live. My directing work specializes in re-imagining classic texts from Shakespeare to Chekhov and in new writing. Most recently I directed the US premiere of Stef Smith’s outstanding adaptation of 'Nora: A Doll’s House'. In the Fall I will be directing an Irish 2 hander at Hedgerow Theatre and in the spring, ‘The Moors’ by Jen Silverman for Ursinus College. I was the founding producing artistic director of Tiny Dynamite where I produced over 20 productions ranging from one acts to international collaborations that employed groundbreaking technology for performance. I also work as an acting coach, sound designer, voice over artist and audiobook narrator.