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 - whether that's singing, teaching, dramaturgy or research - I'm curious about how we meet, and why it might matter.

 

I'm currently a Research and Innovation Associate at the University of Manchester, working on a public engagement project within the catchment of the River Aire, led by Steve Scott-Bottoms. We're 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'll be making a piece of creative work - coming to a hydrological area near you, later this year.

 

I've also just submitted my PhD thesis at the University of Cambridge, on dramaturgies of encounter in the context of the climate crisis, with the viva to come in September. 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'm co-editing an upcoming issue of Platform with my friend and colleague Grace Joseph (CfP here!). I'll also be co-presenting a paper at TaPRA 2024 about Steve and my work with ARC.

 

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 Jonathan Dove's Mansfield Park, which we first performed in 2018, and revived in 2019, 2022 and 2023. Before my singing career started, I left Cambridge with a Double First in English, before studying for a Graduate Diploma and a Masters in Performance at the RCM.

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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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