My Work
Past Productions and New Work
May Queen
dir. B Karra
Paines Plough and Coventry Belgrade 2022.
May Day in Coventry. Sixteen-year-old Leigh has been chosen as May Queen. She’s buzzin’, as is the rest of the city.
The cider is flowing and St George’s flag is flying – but during Cov’s festivities, our Queen is inevitably toppled. As the year moves on in the City of Peace and Reconciliation, Leigh must face up to the events of that hot May Day, and dig deep within her past and our city’s history to ask – how did she get here? And how does she get out?
Petticoat Council
dir. ME!
Warwick Arts Centre, Malvern Theatres, Wolves Arena, Corby Cube & community venues. 2021.
A real life tale of a rural Warwickshire Village in which a group of women overthrow the current council to become the very first female council in Britain.
Our production incorporates storytelling, song, dance, and puppetry. With songs from the charts, mixed into folk arrangements and movement pieces (based around mangles) this is a story following the strength of women with an all female cast.
Basically, this story, of these women, didn’t happen in a city.
It isn’t in London, or Manchester or Birmingham,
although it’s near Coventry.
It happens in a place you wouldn’t expect,
a place you wouldn’t expect a revolution to happen.
And from women you wouldn’t expect to start a revolution.
And where do revolutions begin?
Like everything, they begin with a mother…
Presented by BoysClub and StephHartland Productions we took Petticoat Council to places around Coventry and Warwickshire that perhaps hadn’t seen any theatre in a while coz of Covid or at all, ever.
17!
dir. Balisha Karra and Fin Townsend. Wildcard Theatre at Vaults 2019.
17 is a look at what its like being a teenager now: Trying things, learning stuff, failing, succeeding, heartbreak, expectations and shame. At 17 your world isn’t just home, school and maybe further maths club, with the internet watching and recording and repeating your actions, your choices are there for everyone to see and for everyone to have an opinion on.
With a cast of 2 but characters of 20+ this lyrical play throws you back into those unsteady days of 17. How everything is about that moment but that the consequences can last longer than you ever imagined. Long listed for the Bruntwood Prize and developed alongside MiddleChild Theatre Company this play hopes to connect with younger audiences on a level that they’re familiar with but also show people who aren’t 17 anymore what it really is like to be growing up online.
Turkey.
dir. Niall Phillips
Hope Theatre, London. 2017.
A play of love, grief, turkey basting and baby making.
This one got lots of 5* reviews, offie noms and got me my agent.
Madeline wants a baby, so a baby she will have. It doesn’t matter that she is in a relationship with a woman, or that they can’t afford the high private clinic fees, she’ll go about getting this child whichever way she can. Together with her partner, the selfless, kind, stable Toni the two women explore all the options available to them but when Madeline gets excited about one possibility in particular alarm bells are raised for Toni. Now the Nuclear Family is no longer considered the norm, how far can Madeline go to get the baby she so desires? And does it really matter who she has this baby with? People are manipulated, games are played and hearts ultimately shattered in this tale of one woman’s longing for a child.
Clementines
dir. Laurie Barraclough. 2019.
Backscatter Productions.
A short I wrote about first love. Check out all them laurels.
Becoming Danish
dir. Me. 2017
A web series which I wrote about young woman who believes her life would be a whole lot better…if she were Danish! (Spoiler, it won’t)
New Work
A Very Forgettable Love Story OR Fossils.
A new show with music that I’m working on. Haven’t figured out the title yet, any help would be greatly appreciated. It is about a woman who cares for others her whole life and the sea fossil she found in her youth.
With Zoe Gibbons producing and local talent Antonia Kirby on music.
APES IN HELL
A new big play I am working on about a female spy ring in 60s Warwickshire. I’m excited. (not actual poster, obv)
I’ve also got some screenplays about conscripting British youth, the happiest town in Britain that ain’t so happy (mine) and lots of plays in metaphorical drawers. Gimme an email if you wanna read any.