Raised in a loving and supportive family, educated at St Paul's School, the University of Cambridge, and the Royal College of Music, mine is a story of success against entirely possible odds.  

 

I've been very fortunate in the opportunities I've been given, and I've tried to make the most of them. That's taken me through the beginnings of a pretty varied career, but across all of the things I do I'm curious about how we can bring new things out of each other, when we meet.

 

I'm currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Manchester, working on a public engagement project within the catchment of the River Aire. Professor Stephen Scott-Bottoms and I are collaborating with the Aire Resilience Company to understand how businesses are adapting to uncertain futures, and how we might collectively build a more resilient, interdependent, and ecologically thriving Aire Valley. As part of this project, we've made a piece of creative work - coming to a catchment near you, later this year.

 

Last year I completed my PhD thesis at the University of Cambridge, on dramaturgies of encounter in the context of the climate crisis. That research was generously supported by the Judith E. Wilson Fund at the Faculty of English. Publication-wise: my writing has appeared in CTR, Critical Stages/Scènes Critiques, Platform, and IJPADM, and I recently co-edited an issue of performing arts journal Platform with my friend and colleague Grace Joseph.

 

My undergraduate degree was also at Cambridge, after which I trained as an opera singer at the RCM. As a singer and coach, I've worked at the Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne, and Opera North, and ruined Frank Skinner's evening at the launch of the V&A Opera exhibition. The role and show that best describes my singing career, however, has been playing Edmund Bertram in Waterperry Opera Festival's production of Mansfield Park, by Jonathan Dove, which we first performed in 2018, and revived in 2019, 2022 and 2023.

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I love hearing from people through this site, and am always happy to talk about my work, so please - get in touch.

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