Biography

I am a scriptwriter, film-maker, actress and independent scholar of theatre history, based in Suffolk and Spain.

I usually perform the solo shows featured here at  non-theatre venues that fit the era or subject. For example, I performed Hannah Snell, Female Soldier, 1750 at the Army Museum in York, in front of an eighteenth-century Union Jack and at Gainborough's House, where the view of historic Sudbury through a huge window worked as backdrop.  I perform The Walled-Up Woman in churches. However, the anchoress's choice of life-long lockdown adapted well to Zoom during the Covid 19 lockdown. I also 'zoomed'  Lady in a Veil (2019), as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

In 2018 I played the Countess, only the second person ever to do so, in Yale University’s revival of Horace Walpole’s 1768 play of maternal incest, 'The Mysterious Mother'.  Both the performance, and the academic conference at the Yale Center for British Art which accompanied it, are available here on YouTube.

I have made four short films, including The Unicyclist, (1995) which our female team In the Picture co-produced with Spain and Short, White, Pleated (2002). It featured widely in LGBTQ film festivals.

I hold a PhD in Creative Writing (2016). From 2002 to 2017, I was a Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University and acted as external examiner on BA and PhD programmes in the UK, as well as on university validation panels in Singapore.  She reviews for "The Journal of Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research".

 

I am happy to receive commissions for writing and performance, as well as ideas for collaborations, based around my interests and expertise. 

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