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Past Projects
Here you’ll find a selection of previous shows I have worked on! Click on the pictures to read the full descriptions and to learn more about each project and what I do.
Exhibitionists | Company Stage Manager (On Book)
A dazzling new comedy about love, sex, happiness and freedom set in the San Francisco art world. When ex-partners collide at an exhibition, sparks fly and their new boyfriends are caught in the blast, igniting a series of comic crises involving a road trip along the Pacific Coast Highway that leads them to a mysterious hotelier and new beginnings.
Witty characters, outrageous behaviour and a big beating heart make Exhibitionists the perfect post-New Year pick me up.
Writers: Shaun McKenna & Andrew Van Sickle
Director: Bronagh Lagan
Set & Costume Design: Gregor Donnelly
Sound Design: Max Pappenheim
Lighting Design: Clancy Flynn
Video Design: Matt Powell
Casting: Jane Deitch
Producers: Elphin Productions & James Seabright
Witty characters, outrageous behaviour and a big beating heart make Exhibitionists the perfect post-New Year pick me up.
Writers: Shaun McKenna & Andrew Van Sickle
Director: Bronagh Lagan
Set & Costume Design: Gregor Donnelly
Sound Design: Max Pappenheim
Lighting Design: Clancy Flynn
Video Design: Matt Powell
Casting: Jane Deitch
Producers: Elphin Productions & James Seabright
The Good Enough Mums Club | Assistant Stage Manager
Not perfect? Join the club! Toddle through the highs, lows and sleep deprivation of motherhood with The Good Enough Mums Club, a poignant and hilarious musical produced, written, directed and performed by mums. From peeing on sticks to drooping tits we share the love and dispel the myths with enough wipes to mop the tears and clean away the snotty laughter.
Five women thrown together by motherhood, overcome their isolation, loneliness, judgment and perfectionism to discover that they’re stronger as a group than as individuals, and that sometimes, being good enough is best.
Directors: Sarah Meadows and Michelle Payne
Writer and Lyrics: Emily Beecher
Music by: Verity Quade and Chris Passey
Musical Director: Debbie Clarke
Movement Director: Natasha Harrison
Assistant Movement Director: Meadhbh Lyons
Designer: Libby Todd
Costume Supervisor: Becky Livermore
Lighting Designer: Aaron Dootson
Sound Designer: Andrew Johnson
Associate Sound Designer: Chris Murray
Production Manager: Jack Greenyer
Stage Manager: Lucy Morris
Five women thrown together by motherhood, overcome their isolation, loneliness, judgment and perfectionism to discover that they’re stronger as a group than as individuals, and that sometimes, being good enough is best.
Directors: Sarah Meadows and Michelle Payne
Writer and Lyrics: Emily Beecher
Music by: Verity Quade and Chris Passey
Musical Director: Debbie Clarke
Movement Director: Natasha Harrison
Assistant Movement Director: Meadhbh Lyons
Designer: Libby Todd
Costume Supervisor: Becky Livermore
Lighting Designer: Aaron Dootson
Sound Designer: Andrew Johnson
Associate Sound Designer: Chris Murray
Production Manager: Jack Greenyer
Stage Manager: Lucy Morris
The Boy Who Sailed The Ocean In An Armchair | Stage Manager
Adapted from Lara Williamson’s hit novel, The Boy who Sailed the Ocean in an Armchair tells the story of Becket, whose life is turned upside down when he, his brother and his Dad are running away from home in the middle of the night, leaving behind their almost-mum Pearl without saying goodbye. Whilst coming to terms with the fact that his real mum died before he had a chance to say goodbye to her too, he arms himself with an armchair of stories and one thousand paper cranes, determined to bring his family back together again.
Writer: Jordan Li-Smith
Director: Hannah Chissick
Choreographer: Steve Kirkham
Musical Director: Lewis bell
Music Supervisor + Orchestrations: Ben Ferguson
Additional Orchestrations: Livi van Warmelo
Set + Costume Designer: Richard Cooper
Lighting Designer: Nic Farman
Sound Designer: Andrew Johnson
Production Manager: Ryan Watson
Stage Manager: Abi Morris
Deputy Stage Manager: Eleanor Walton
Assistant Stage Managers: Niamh Davies and Ceci Balke
Assistant Director: Oliver Furze
Assistant Musical Director: Alex Faulkner
Assistant Choreographer: Anna Kendall
Writer: Jordan Li-Smith
Director: Hannah Chissick
Choreographer: Steve Kirkham
Musical Director: Lewis bell
Music Supervisor + Orchestrations: Ben Ferguson
Additional Orchestrations: Livi van Warmelo
Set + Costume Designer: Richard Cooper
Lighting Designer: Nic Farman
Sound Designer: Andrew Johnson
Production Manager: Ryan Watson
Stage Manager: Abi Morris
Deputy Stage Manager: Eleanor Walton
Assistant Stage Managers: Niamh Davies and Ceci Balke
Assistant Director: Oliver Furze
Assistant Musical Director: Alex Faulkner
Assistant Choreographer: Anna Kendall
Nine | Dresser
Set against the backdrop of 1960s Italy, this spectacular, Tony Award-winning musical tells the story of Guido Contini and the dozens of women in his life.
Director: Phyllida Crowley Smith
Musical Director: Kevin Michael Cripps
Set + Costume Designer: PJ McEvoy
Lighting Designer: James Smith
Sound Designer: Mick Livermore
Production Manager: Martin Bristow
Costume Supervisor: Sheree Paton
Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor: Georgia Bettison
Dresser: Abi Morris
Director: Phyllida Crowley Smith
Musical Director: Kevin Michael Cripps
Set + Costume Designer: PJ McEvoy
Lighting Designer: James Smith
Sound Designer: Mick Livermore
Production Manager: Martin Bristow
Costume Supervisor: Sheree Paton
Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor: Georgia Bettison
Dresser: Abi Morris
Rock 'n' Roll | Stage Manager
Rock 'n' Roll is an electrifying collision of the romantic and the revolutionary. It is 1968 and the world is ablaze with rebellion, accompanied by a soundtrack of the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. Clutching his prized collection of rock albums, Jan, a Cambridge graduate student, returns to his homeland of Czechoslovakia just as Soviet tanks roll into Prague. When security forces tighten their grip on artistic expression, Jan is inexorably drawn toward a dangerous act of dissent. Back in England, Jan's volcanic mentor, Max, faces a war of his own as his free-spirited daughter and his cancer-stricken wife attempt to break through his walls of academic and emotional obstinacy. Over the next twenty years of love, espionage, chance, and loss, the extraordinary lives of Jan and Max spin and intersect until an unexpected reunion forces them to see what is truly worth the fight.
Director: Fay Lomas
Movement Director: Georgina Makhubele
Intimacy Coordinator: Rachel Birch
Set + Costume Designer: Richard Cooper
Lighting Designer: Alex Musgrave
Sound Designer: David Lewington
Production Manager: Karl Westlake
Stage Manager: Abi Morris
Deputy Stage Manager: Daisy Halligan
Assistant Stage Managers: Tasha Gleeson, Nathan Allum, and Jamie Hall
Director: Fay Lomas
Movement Director: Georgina Makhubele
Intimacy Coordinator: Rachel Birch
Set + Costume Designer: Richard Cooper
Lighting Designer: Alex Musgrave
Sound Designer: David Lewington
Production Manager: Karl Westlake
Stage Manager: Abi Morris
Deputy Stage Manager: Daisy Halligan
Assistant Stage Managers: Tasha Gleeson, Nathan Allum, and Jamie Hall
Waiting for the End of the World | Stage Manager
This is a black comedy about a bunch of rich people riding out the impending end of the world in a luxury disaster compound. Stylistically, it’s somewhere between commedia dell’arte and Quentin Tarantino. In the tension of confinement, everyone starts falling out and it turns very ugly, but in a laugh-out-loud funny way.
Writer: Nick Revell
Director: Grainne Byrne
Production Manager: Louise Sage
Assistant Production Manager: Ed Wilkinson
Deputy Stage Manager: Megan Powell
Assistant Stage Manager: Daisy Halligan
Writer: Nick Revell
Director: Grainne Byrne
Production Manager: Louise Sage
Assistant Production Manager: Ed Wilkinson
Deputy Stage Manager: Megan Powell
Assistant Stage Manager: Daisy Halligan
The Velveteen Daughter | Stage Manager
Based on a remarkable true story, this beautiful new musical explores the complex public and personal relationship between the two women and their wider public. This world premiere has been developed through workshops with the students and writers.
Writers: Caroline Wigmore and Jen Green
Director: Julian Woolford
Musical Director: Griffin Jenkins
Movement Director: Rachel Birch Lawson
Assistant Movement Director: Alexander Gotch
Production Manager: Louise Sage
Assistant Production Manager: Ed Wilkinson
Deputy Stage Manager: Valentina Maria Cutri
Assistant Stage Manager: Daisy Halligan
Writers: Caroline Wigmore and Jen Green
Director: Julian Woolford
Musical Director: Griffin Jenkins
Movement Director: Rachel Birch Lawson
Assistant Movement Director: Alexander Gotch
Production Manager: Louise Sage
Assistant Production Manager: Ed Wilkinson
Deputy Stage Manager: Valentina Maria Cutri
Assistant Stage Manager: Daisy Halligan
The Girls Guide to Good Sex | Stage Manager + Writer
Sex is everywhere; in your favourite songs, on your TV, in your parents’ car and in your neighbours’ garden… But what really is the best way to have sex? And what happens when you disagree with The Guide?
The Girls’ Guide to Good Sex examines all the things we've all been told, or not told, about love and intimacy since high school, and explores how we can find ourselves amidst the noise. In this short story anthology, follow the lives of these young women and non-binary folk as they explore their sexual identities and desires with the people around them; let Kickback Theatre take you on this immersive theatrical journey as we celebrate experience, identity, and romance… Or just casual flings.
Writer/Supervising Director: Emma Large
Writer/Cast: Heather Collier
Writer/Cast: Mia Joyce
Production Designer/Script Supervisor: Ollie Wimbush
Performance Stage Manager: Jazz Collins
Technical Stage Manager: Alina Longmore
The Girls’ Guide to Good Sex examines all the things we've all been told, or not told, about love and intimacy since high school, and explores how we can find ourselves amidst the noise. In this short story anthology, follow the lives of these young women and non-binary folk as they explore their sexual identities and desires with the people around them; let Kickback Theatre take you on this immersive theatrical journey as we celebrate experience, identity, and romance… Or just casual flings.
Writer/Supervising Director: Emma Large
Writer/Cast: Heather Collier
Writer/Cast: Mia Joyce
Production Designer/Script Supervisor: Ollie Wimbush
Performance Stage Manager: Jazz Collins
Technical Stage Manager: Alina Longmore
Treasure Island | Deputy Stage Manager
Packed with fascinating characters, hidden treasure and magnificent sea shanties, this thrilling adaptation of the classical adventure story has treasure maps, a deserted island, pirates and, of course, a parrot!
Director: Karen Tomlin
Musical Director: Ed Zanders
Movement Director: Anna Tringham
Fight Director: Marie Drisch
Set/Costume Designer: Verity Johnson
Lighting Designer: Jack Hathaway
Sound Designer: Joseff Harris
Production Manager: Sheryl-Lynne Valensky
Assistant Production Manager: Ed Wilkinson
Stage Manager: Beck Blair
Assistant Stage Managers: Valentia Marie Cutri and Josh Waters
Director: Karen Tomlin
Musical Director: Ed Zanders
Movement Director: Anna Tringham
Fight Director: Marie Drisch
Set/Costume Designer: Verity Johnson
Lighting Designer: Jack Hathaway
Sound Designer: Joseff Harris
Production Manager: Sheryl-Lynne Valensky
Assistant Production Manager: Ed Wilkinson
Stage Manager: Beck Blair
Assistant Stage Managers: Valentia Marie Cutri and Josh Waters
The Secret Life of Humans | Stage Crew/Stage Management Intern
Dr. Jacob Bronowski, a mathematician and scientist whose ground-breaking series made science popular on TV, always took a rather optimistic view of human evolution. But was he right in his rosy assessment of mankind?
Young research assistant Ava, whose career is stalling, thinks not. And when her Tinder date Jamie turns out to be Bronowski’s grandson, she quickly becomes more interested in getting into his late grandfather’s house than pursuing a romantic relationship. At the family’s estate, Ava develops a fascination with the research materials Bronowski had kept locked up safely in his famous secret room. With some nudging, she convinces Jamie to open this Pandora’s box of his family past, unearthing echoes from across six million years of human history.
Writer/Director: David Byrne
Co-Director: Richard Delaney
Costume Designer: Melanie Schoeberl
Lighting Designer: Charlie Morgan Jones
Sound Designer: Yaiza Varona
Video Designer: Zakk Hein
Stage Manager: Leanne Maksin
Assistant Stage Managers: Gemma Brady, Beke Langanke
Young research assistant Ava, whose career is stalling, thinks not. And when her Tinder date Jamie turns out to be Bronowski’s grandson, she quickly becomes more interested in getting into his late grandfather’s house than pursuing a romantic relationship. At the family’s estate, Ava develops a fascination with the research materials Bronowski had kept locked up safely in his famous secret room. With some nudging, she convinces Jamie to open this Pandora’s box of his family past, unearthing echoes from across six million years of human history.
Writer/Director: David Byrne
Co-Director: Richard Delaney
Costume Designer: Melanie Schoeberl
Lighting Designer: Charlie Morgan Jones
Sound Designer: Yaiza Varona
Video Designer: Zakk Hein
Stage Manager: Leanne Maksin
Assistant Stage Managers: Gemma Brady, Beke Langanke
love & piss | Co-Stage Manager + Co-Producer + Sound Operator
love & piss is both a carnival of rebellion and a celebration of queer identity. To explore the problems in expressing personal identity, gender and our bodies in the UK today, love & piss imagines the grimy underworld within the walls of the men’s bathroom. Here, the foundations of the world outside are uncovered through the histories etched in damp waste. Andrew is lost in this world, thrown between weird pubs, bus stops and police stations, trying to find a way out without losing it entirely. How do you make sense of a world built on piss?
Writer/Director: James Gautrey
Movement Director: Amy Cheng
Co-Producer: Jo Wickham
Co-Stage Manager: Ro Windust
Designer: Ollie Wimbush
Writer/Director: James Gautrey
Movement Director: Amy Cheng
Co-Producer: Jo Wickham
Co-Stage Manager: Ro Windust
Designer: Ollie Wimbush
Iolanthe | Stage Manager
Young Strephon, half-human, half-fairy, plans to wed the beautiful Phyllis, ward of the detestable (but hilarious) Lord Chancellor. But through a series of mishaps and misunderstandings, she forsakes their engagement in favour of just about anyone else! Meanwhile, Strephon's fairy mother, the formerly banished Iolanthe, returns to her life int he fairy world. But is there space left in her life for love? Find out in this fresh and exciting production of a classic, topsy-turvy Gilbert and Sullivan operetta!
Co-Director: Frankie Duggins
Co-Director: Ro Windust
Co-Musical Director: Patrick Sharman
Co-Musical Director/Conductor: Ben Siebertz-Willett
Chorus Master: Alice Whitten
Producer: Maya Ostle
Assistant Stage Manager: Amy Cheng
Co-Director: Frankie Duggins
Co-Director: Ro Windust
Co-Musical Director: Patrick Sharman
Co-Musical Director/Conductor: Ben Siebertz-Willett
Chorus Master: Alice Whitten
Producer: Maya Ostle
Assistant Stage Manager: Amy Cheng
I Don't Know What Else To Say | Co-Stage Manager
Four writers, four stories. The only thing in common? A food stand named Mindy’s.
'I Don’t Know What Else to Say' is a new immersive piece from Kickback Theatre, asking the question, 'what do you do when things don't go to plan?' Watch four short stories unfold as friends and loved ones explore past events, evaluate present situations, and grapple with what else to say.
Director: Emma Large
Writer (Burger'd)/Producer: Heather Collier
Writer (Golden Sands)/Producer: Kirsten Ellis
Writer (I'm Thinking of Getting a Tattoo)/Producer: Ollie Wimbush
Writer (A Place Only We Know)/Videographer: Nouria Lambert de Rouvroit
Co-Stage Manager: Hazel Wilson
Designer: Alex Clark
Press & Publicity (for Kickback Theatre): Mia Joyce
Includes the original track, 'When Harry Met Sally', by Red Zest.
'I Don’t Know What Else to Say' is a new immersive piece from Kickback Theatre, asking the question, 'what do you do when things don't go to plan?' Watch four short stories unfold as friends and loved ones explore past events, evaluate present situations, and grapple with what else to say.
Director: Emma Large
Writer (Burger'd)/Producer: Heather Collier
Writer (Golden Sands)/Producer: Kirsten Ellis
Writer (I'm Thinking of Getting a Tattoo)/Producer: Ollie Wimbush
Writer (A Place Only We Know)/Videographer: Nouria Lambert de Rouvroit
Co-Stage Manager: Hazel Wilson
Designer: Alex Clark
Press & Publicity (for Kickback Theatre): Mia Joyce
Includes the original track, 'When Harry Met Sally', by Red Zest.
Re-Rovered | Co-Stage Manager (On Book), LX + AV Operator
Re-Rovered is a contemporary adaptation of Aphra Behn’s The Rover (1677), which explores our ongoing complicity to sexual harassment and rape culture in the work place and beyond. Re-Rovered is a farcical play with a sinister truth, bridging the world of a training video, the tale of a trip to Mardi Gras gone wrong, with the ugly corporate reality which has supposedly learned from it. For a play about partying: It has one hell of a hangover.
Writer/Director: Heather Collier
Assistant Director: Emma Large
Dramaturg: Jo Wickham
Co-Stage Manager: Jazz Collins
Co-Porducer: Kirsten Ellis
Co-Producer: Harriet Kent
Sound/Graphic/Lighting Designer: Ollie Wimbush
Writer/Director: Heather Collier
Assistant Director: Emma Large
Dramaturg: Jo Wickham
Co-Stage Manager: Jazz Collins
Co-Porducer: Kirsten Ellis
Co-Producer: Harriet Kent
Sound/Graphic/Lighting Designer: Ollie Wimbush
Love and Information | Production Placement
A digital adaptation of Caryl Churchill's play 'Love and Information'.
Director: Christa Harris
Production Manager: Danny Warboys
Scenic/Costume Designer: David Crisp
Lighting Designer: Phil Speck
Costume Supervisor: Undreia Capewell
Stage Manager: Linda Muirhead
Production Placement: Lizzie Hayward
Director: Christa Harris
Production Manager: Danny Warboys
Scenic/Costume Designer: David Crisp
Lighting Designer: Phil Speck
Costume Supervisor: Undreia Capewell
Stage Manager: Linda Muirhead
Production Placement: Lizzie Hayward
Order Up! | Stage Manager
One banquet, 5 candidates and a series of votes. But who will be the head of the table?
Order Up! is an immersive theatrical experience examining how we decide who we vote for and the consequences of voting. We invite you to join in on the banquet, to eat the food and take part in the votes which will ultimately decide who is the head of the table. The entire show rests in your hands.
Director: Emma Large
Musical Director: Cait Thomas
Producer: Olivia McDonnell
Co-Stage Manager: Robyn Lexi
Order Up! is an immersive theatrical experience examining how we decide who we vote for and the consequences of voting. We invite you to join in on the banquet, to eat the food and take part in the votes which will ultimately decide who is the head of the table. The entire show rests in your hands.
Director: Emma Large
Musical Director: Cait Thomas
Producer: Olivia McDonnell
Co-Stage Manager: Robyn Lexi
Thespians | Co-Stage Manager and LX Operator
"What?" - A character at some point in this play...
Based (incredibly loosely) on the myth of Thespis, the first actor, this surreal meta-comedy follows the trials and tribulations of a group of downtrodden entertainers in (sort of) ancient Greece! There'll be bizarre shenanigans, gags, a goat riding a horse and much more!
Writer/Director: Alfred Taylor
Assistant Director/Producer: Anna Lewis
Co-Stage Manager: Daryanne Scott
Based (incredibly loosely) on the myth of Thespis, the first actor, this surreal meta-comedy follows the trials and tribulations of a group of downtrodden entertainers in (sort of) ancient Greece! There'll be bizarre shenanigans, gags, a goat riding a horse and much more!
Writer/Director: Alfred Taylor
Assistant Director/Producer: Anna Lewis
Co-Stage Manager: Daryanne Scott
Pitch Perfect: The 48 Hour | Assistant Stage Manager
Join us at Pitchsburg Academy, where the Aca-Bellas are attempting to redeem themselves after a disgraceful display at the national a-capella competition last year. With fresh voices to recruit, old foes to face and a severe lack of instruments, the Bellas are back pitches, and it's time to face the music...
A 48 Hour is wild, silly, and funny parody of a movie, written and directed by students! Actors are given 10 DAYS to learn their lines and only a WEEKEND (that's the 48 hour bit) to rehearse and make their props out of cardboard, before the show on Sunday night.
Writer/Director: Hannah Clay
Writer/Director: Josh Jamieson
Producer: Carina Stephens
Stage Manager: Jack Hirons
A 48 Hour is wild, silly, and funny parody of a movie, written and directed by students! Actors are given 10 DAYS to learn their lines and only a WEEKEND (that's the 48 hour bit) to rehearse and make their props out of cardboard, before the show on Sunday night.
Writer/Director: Hannah Clay
Writer/Director: Josh Jamieson
Producer: Carina Stephens
Stage Manager: Jack Hirons
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