DOCTORS – BBC
Great fun to be back in Birmingham and on the set of Doctors. I’m playing Dr Faith Whittaker a Senior Lecturer in Nursing at the University of Letherbridge where Ayesha is going to study Director – Amy Cooper BBC LINK: HERE
EVELYN’S ROOTS Audio Walk – Teatro Vivo
We’re thrilled to be creating an audio walk recording of our promenade play so that people can enjoy the stories of Deptford and explore for themselves. Much joy and hilarity at the studios trying to remember and recreate our characters. Also, extra unexpected...
RADIANT VERMIN – Ram Jam Theatre Company
My first professional foray into movement directing! Erica and I have known and worked together for many years. She asked me to help out on this brilliant Philip Ridley play, specifically to bring the actors to a place where we could physically devise the famous...
DILEMMA DILEMMA – Yellow Earth Theatre & Stone Crabs
Working with some of my friends and favourite East Asian actors on a play about the terrible accident at the Fukishima Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. We’re privileged to have the writer Toshinobu Kojo with us and guiding us through the play and its cultural context. I...
EVELYN’S ROOTS – Teatro Vivo
Such a treat to be back with the Teatro Vivo gang devising a new promenade show set all around the streets of Deptford, including many stories from this wonderful part of town and its gloriously diverse community throughout history. I’m also honoured to have been...
TOTAL WAR – Three Kingdoms
I’m under a massive NDA so I can’t say much about this but I’m thrilled to be part of the cast of this famous video game. I’ve never done anything like this before and I’ve been amazed by the incredible stories and graphics CLICK: LINK
THE BETRAYAL – NT Studio
Workshopping a new play directed by Bijan Sheibani
ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
I’m over the moon to be cast in All’s Well That Ends Well in the beautiful, candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe. All’s Well is rarely performed as it has themes and an ending which are considered difficult for a contemporary audience. Director...
LAMPEDUSA
Once again, this “zeitgeist-capturing evocation of hope” was a big hit in Glasgow garnering 4 and 5 star reviews. "a zeitgeist-capturing evocation of hope" - The Herald "Jack Nurse's production delivers an evening worth remembering" - The Scotsman "an intense...
LIL’ RED (R&D)
Singing again! An exciting week of vocal experimentation developing 2 musical pieces with musician and composer Pete Wyer and playwright Mia Chung. Pete and I first worked together back in 2002 on a play called Sea of Silence. This time we looked at a blues version of...
DR WHO – The Silurian Candidate
I’m in Dr Who! What an honour. I’d not quite realised how popular a topic of conversation this would be at parties… A joy to be working with Sylvester McCoy again. The last time we worked together was at the RSC in 2001 with him playing a beaver and me a mermaid. This...
DIRTY GIRLS
Singing! And what an amazing group of people to be singing about. The Dirty Girls of Lesvos is a real NGO doing amazing work and literally cleaning up the mess left behind as a result of the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean. This musical by Tess Berry-Hart,...