I am a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and producer working across opera, public realm projects, and socially engaged performance. I collaborate with Dai Fujikura as librettist and lyricist (A Dream of Armageddon, The Great Wave) and have directed or produced work for ROH2, Spoleto Festival (Italy), Shakespeare’s Globe, The British Council, The National Archives, and National Trust. I was the founding producer of Secret Cinema.
From 2021-24 I led the British Army’s Art and Engagement programme in Scotland, earning a Fringe First and the Scottish Arts Club Award for best Scottish Production. I currently serve in the British Army as a Specialist Advisor in Creative Production. I am a Visiting Research Fellow at the Veterans and Families Institute at Anglia Ruskin University, and Visiting Lecturer at Moray School of Art, University of the Highlands and Islands.
I’m a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Society of Scottish Antiquaries, and Royal Society for Public Health. I volunteer as a member of the City of Edinburgh’s Slavery and Colonialism Legacy Review Implementation Group, am director of Performing Arts at the Green School Isleworth, and sing in my local parish church choir.