I have been developing a sensory performance practice since joining Oily Cart Theatre as their first Associate Artist in 2019. In 2025 I came on as associate director for the UK theatre tour of When the World Turns, an Oily Cart/Polyglot collaboration (5* Everything Theatre, nominated for 3 Off West End Awards: Innovation, Production, Industry & Inclusion).
My work in this area has included:
- co-created installations made with AbPhab Youth Club in Barking, and Creative Barking and Dagenham
- shadow puppetry created with the special educational needs class at Eastlea, and teacher Helen Hayibor (supported by Culture Within Newham)
- residencies in specialist schools in London and Leicestershire looking at sensory sound making and voice (including artist in residence as part of Attenborough Arts Centre’s SENsory Atelier programme) – BLOG POST HERE
- collaborating artist on the sensory film Something Love made with Oily Cart
- a headphone piece commissioned by Oily Cart and Polyglot Theatre for their new collaborative work When The World Turns, subsequently directing the show’s UK theatre tour in 2025.
- research and development into sound as a form of touch and intimacy without social interaction funded by Unlimited and Jerwood Arts
- a collaboration with Tim Spooner to create an interactive sensory listening device Tilde
- a remote musical collaboration with young people facing multiple barriers to access and their families
- dramaturg on Jamboree by Oily Cart
- dramaturg on All Wrapped Up by Oily Cart
I am particularly interested in methodologies of collaboration with people who do not operate with language as a primary medium of communication, in sound as sensory practice, and in non-normative use of voice, repetition and looping as cultural crossovers between the worlds of sensory theatre and the live art and experimental performance sector.
The White Noise Factory is in development – here is my notebook.
