Performing

A sunny day in a park, with parched grass and a line of trees in the background. We see a large tower of buckets is beginning to fall. A person in a blue uniform is putting their hands in the air in alarm in the foreground. We see a large crowd in the background.
We see a woman with grey hair, wearing victorian clothes and a small top hat perched on one side of her head. She is appealing to us, the audience. Two members of the audience wearing winter clothes are in the foreground.
We see 4 people wearing rain macs with the hoods up and glasses. They are walking down the road and appear to be talking. These are the Severn Bores who like to tell people the facts and figures of the Severn bore wave.
The Mad Hatter's tea party. We see four characters set around a table full of cups, saucers, tea and cakes. A dormouse in a dressing gown (played by a woman) looks fed up. The Mad hatter is pouring a cup of tea for Alice. All three are looking at the Mad March Hare (played by a man) who has big ears and fists ready for a punch up.

I trained at Circomedia, academy for circus and physical theatre in Bristol, leaving in 1999. A fellow graduate Mark Conway and I founded Gonzo Moose, a contemporary clown company and I worked with him and a range of small and mid scale touring theatre companies, travelling the length and breadth of the UK. During the summer, when theatres are traditionally empty, I began to learn about the world of street theatre through a company which sadly no longer exists – called Brink of Distinction. They offered a number of high quality walkabout acts, the most popular being The Penguins. I discovered the delight of tempting strangers to be stupid with me and a consequent love of outdoor performance. I established Red Herring Productions to create outdoor work in 2008 and while I have performed in most projects to date, I continue to work as a freelancer with other companies.

My performance credits are wide ranging, including Full Circle, an outdoor show by Avanti Display, involving 2 humourless clowns and 120 tin buckets (directed by Bill Palmer), Opening Skinner’s Box – a show about psychology with Improbable (directed by Phelim McDermott and Lee Simpson), The Bonnet Maker in a promenade version of The Hunting of the Snark (directed by Joe Hancock), The Dormouse in Alice in Wonderland for the New Vic Theatre (directed by Theresa Heskins), The Enchanted Palace, a theatrical installation at Kensington Palace for Wildworks (directed by Bill Mitchell and Nicola Rosewarne) ; Sturgeon Moon a series of outdoor performances traveling along the River Severn with Desperate Men (directed by Jon Beedell); Rough Magyck, a piece made for the RSC with the wonderfully inventive Forkbeard Fantasy (directed by Andy Hay) and Romeo and Juliet for Shifting Sands (directed by Gerry Flanagan).