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  • Devoted & Disgruntled #DandD13

    Devoted & Disgruntled #DandD13

    Every year for the last 13 years, Improbable has asked the question, ‘What are we going to do about theatre and the performing arts?’ Their invitation brings hundreds of theatre makers together at an event called Devoted & Disgruntled, and provides the liberating and inclusive format of Open Space to enable necessary conversations to happen. Read more

  • Summer in Scotland

    Summer in Scotland

    It’s September, and London theatre is starting to come back to life after the last few months of sunny picnics, school holidays, and of course the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The summer already seems like a dream, but before it slips away entirely, I wanted to chronicle the eventful few months I’ve had. In June… The Read more

  • London Devised Theatre Intensive

    London Devised Theatre Intensive

    In 2012, I went to Directors Lab West, an 8-day intensive for directors in Pasadena, California. I took a week off from my office job to go, and saved money on the trip by sharing a hotel room with another director. I didn’t really know what to expect, but I took a leap of faith Read more

  • Home Is Like a Blanket (NYU Forum 2017)

    Home Is Like a Blanket (NYU Forum 2017)

    Home Is Where… is going places! Last month, Guleraana and I presented our project at the Families in Global Transition conference in the Netherlands, and we’ve just returned from New York, where we connected with other verbatim theatre makers at the NYU Forum on Ethnodrama. I was so excited to meet this community and see Read more

  • Home is Where the Radishes Grow (FIGT 2017)

    Home is Where the Radishes Grow (FIGT 2017)

    Guleraana and I are back in London, after a whirlwind week at the Families in Global Transition conference in The Hague, Netherlands. It was an inspiring, identity-affirming, provocative, exhausting few days with hundreds of fellow cross-culture people, educators, psychologists, researchers, writers, and others who work with globally-mobile communities. Our tribe. We presented some video and Read more

  • A Good Problem to Have

    A Good Problem to Have

    I absolutely detest being told, ‘that’s a good problem to have’. It started as a pet peeve many years ago when I was running a box office and our ‘good problem’ was having sold more tickets than we had seats. Great, you may think – a sold out show! Unless you’re the person who has Read more