Hello!

I am a theatre maker obsessed with unexpected connections. I want my work to bring people together, to awaken curiosity, and to inspire empathy.

I believe we can do more than simply reflect the world as it is; theatre has the power to show us worlds that could be.​​

Musical Theatre

I’m currently focused on writing for musical theatre: The Queen is Mad and RISING with collaborator Tom James McGrath, and Ukulele Days.

The Queen Is Mad received 5-star reviews at Edinburgh Fringe 2025, won a Special Commendation Award from Musical Theatre Review, and was featured on BBC Radio 2 as one of Elaine Paige’s Fringe Picks. The show’s lead song “Locked Away” was a finalist for the Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize 2024.

RISING had a sold-out concert reading at the Irish Cultural Centre in April 2026; Tom and I are now working on the second draft.

Ukulele Days was presented at BEAM 2023, the UK’s showcase of new musicals produced by Mercury Musical Developments and Musical Theatre Network. The show continued its development in 2023-2024, with a showing at Musical Bites (The Other Palace) and a residency at Watford Palace Theatre. It’s been on the back burner while I worked on The Queen Is Mad and RISING, but it’s still simmering away…

Pinecone Performance Lab

I am a co-director of Pinecone Performance Lab with Susie Italiano. Inspired by the idea of the Golden Ratio, a mathematical concept that connects design, art, music, and nature, we make theatre that seeks to understand how we relate to each other: audiences, artists, fellow humans, our culture, other ​cultures, the earth, the universe. The Golden Ratio is universal – it’s there in the shape of the Milky Way Galaxy and the spiral of a pinecone.

With Pinecone Performance Lab, I wrote and performed HOT (Helen of Troy), a 90s-inspired play with songs about beauty, power, and myth, featuring a teenage me and the voice of Helen of Troy. The work-in-progress premiered at The Cockpit in early 2020, and the show is now poised for further development as a two-hander musical. From 2016-2019, we developed Home is Where, a cross-cultural oral history library which has taken many forms in performance from a multi-character dystopian fiction to a one-on-one interactive performance.

San Francisco & London

I began my career in San Francisco, where I was artistic director of Inkblot Ensemble, and an associate artist with Cutting Ball Theater and EXIT Theatre. I graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a degree in Drama in 2007, after a year at the University of Manchester as an international exchange student.

​Since moving to London in 2013, I have created performances at The Other Palace, ZOO Southside (Edinburgh Fringe), VAULT Festival, Camden People’s Theatre, Shoreditch Town Hall, artsdepot, Rich Mix, Theatre Deli, The Cockpit, LOST Theatre, the Lion & Unicorn Theatre, Canal Cafe Theatre, Theatre Utopia, Toulouse Lautrec Jazz Club, and the Southbank Centre’s Women of the World Festival.

And more…

In addition to my own creative work, I am passionate about connecting and supporting fellow artists. With Pinecone, I created and facilitated the London Devised Theatre Intensive (2018 & 2019), a two-week workshop for theatre makers using Open Space Technology. As co-director of the Voila! Theatre Festival from 2018-2024, I programmed an annual celebration of multilingual, multicultural, multidisciplinary theatre at The Cockpit and other venues around London. In 2020, I became the creative producer of Theatre Maker, The Cockpit’s artist development programme.

I live in North London with my partner, two cats, and an ever-growing collection of ukuleles.