Curriculum Vitae

As director &
script advisor/co-creator

Franca Says NO - with Paper Smokers Theatre Company, Theatre Deli ARTIVISM Festival

Miles Apart Together - a new show devised with Emma Dennis-Edwards, Cecilia Gragnani and Meg Kubota (Voilà Europe Festival/Etcetera Theatre) Diary of an Expat by Cecilia Gragnani (Edinburgh Festival Fringe/UK Tour 2019)
Fix by Joe Sellman-Leava and Michael Woodman (Edinburgh Festival Fringe/Theatre Royal Plymouth/The Bike Shed Theatre/Theatre Royal Startford East),
Labels by Joe Sellman-Leava (UK Tour/Perth & Adelaide Fringe Festival/Theatre Royal Stratford East/Edinburgh Festival),
Fascination by Sarah Sigal (Miniaturists Festival, The Arcola Theatre).

As director

The Jewish Wife by Bertolt Brecht for JW3,
What Goes On In Front Of Closed Doors by Emma Bentley & Calum Finlay (UK Tour),
Ölum ve Kiz/ Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman (in a Turkish translation for The Arcola Theatre London & Istanbul/The Millfield Theatre), To She Or Not To She by Emma Bentley (Evolution Festival, Lyric Hammersmith Studio),
A Gaggle of Saints by Neil LaBute (Playground Festival, The Albany Studio),
Eat When You Can, Sleep When You Can (performance/installation project with Artist Philipp Mueller, Carbon 12 Gallery Dubai).

As dramaturg

Anchors by Fiona Geddes,

H.O.T (Helen of Troy) by Amy Clare Tasker,
Edge by Tom Jeffcote (The Blue Room, Perth, WA),
Schilf by Juli Zeh (Kosmos Theater Wien).

As assistant director

LEICHT by Ben Rufin & Esther Muschol, dir: Esther Muschol, Theater Drachengasse, Vienna,

Secretions of the Lac Beetle by Rebecca Crookshank, dir: Tamsin Oglesby (Reading at the Park Theatre),

Agent of Influence: The Secret Life of Pamela More by Sarah Sigal, dir: Jessica Beck (Edinburgh Festival Fringe /Underbelly/UK Tour), Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by Rebecca Crookshank, dir: Jessica Beck (Edinburgh Festival/Underbelly/ UK Tour),
The Thing (Das Ding) by Philipp Löhle, dir: Tanja Pagnuco (New Diorama Theatre),
Werktage/Rohbau dir: Joanna Praml, Katrin Hiller, Esther Muschol, Christian Himmelbauer (das TAG, Vienna),
Der Prozess by Franz Kafka, dir: Gernot Plass (das TAG, Vienna),
Lysistrate by Aristophanes, dir: Ioan Toma (Sommerfestspiele Perchtoldsdorf).

Associate Director of Normal/Madness by Fiona Geddes, dir: Jessica Beck (Edinburgh Festival 2014/Scotland Tour 2015).

Awards

Labels: The Scotsman Fringe First Award 2015, The Holden Street Theatre Award, Award for Best Theatre Adelaide Fringe (week 2), Peace Foundation Award; nominated for Best Theatre Perth Fringe Festival, nominated for Amnesty International’s Freedom of Speech Award.

Diary of an Expat (Reloaded) Off Westend Off Fest Award Finalist (online)

Education &
training

Associate Research Fellow at Birbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre 2021-22,

Projekt Europa - Empower Collective participant,

MA Theatre, Film and Media Studies (University of Vienna),
Young Directors Programme (StoneCrabs Theatre Company), L3 Clock Certificate in Creative and Digital Media
Writing Workshops with Brian Astbury,
Directing Studio at The Globe Theatre,
Member of Young Vic Genesis Directing Network,
Member of Stage Directors UK.