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THEATRICAL WORK
Design Assistant to Sam Wyre on multi award winning ‘The Trench’ by Les Enfants Terribles, Edinburgh Festival 2012
Wardrobe Supervisor, Hard Times, Capitol Theatre, MMU February 2009
Prop Maker, Once Upon a Dragon, Grid Iron Theatre Company May 2007
Scenic Painting For Andrew Greenfield, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Pantomime Cloths Designed by Terry Parsons - Cinderella, Aladdin and Peter Pan 2005/2006
Scenic Painting and Props Maintenance, The Boyfriend, Regents Park Theatre July 2006
Soft Props Construction, Russell Beck Studios, Avenue Q, Mary Poppins (American Tour) Wicked 2006
Costume Dye Work, Clown, Travelling Light Theatre Company, December 2004 and October 2005
Design Assistant, Model Maker, For Andrea Montag, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Redgrave Theatre September 2005
Wardrobe Assistant, Alice in Wonderland Directed by Melly Still, Bristol Old Vic Theatre Royal 2004
Historic Scotland, Designed and made Costumes, Edinburgh Castle March 2002
AWARDS
Rhondda Rips it Up! -
Nominated Best World Premiere, International Opera Awards 2019
Nominated Best Opera, Sky Arts South Bank Awards 2019
Hidden -
Nominated for Best Fringe Productions, Northern Soul Awards 2017
TEACHING
Academic
Senior Lecturer in Costume Design with Textiles (BA), University of Huddersfield October 2009- Present
Teaching Costume Design, Costume Illustration and Life Drawing
Visiting Lecturer, Edinburgh College of Art spring 2007 Spring Term Project.
Interviewer for prospective candidates BA Performance Costume ECA 2007 and 2008
Workshops/Facilitating
Hidden, Design workshops with young carers aged 12-18, Manchester's 42nd Street, February 2017
The Verve (Design workshops with young people with Aspergers Syndrome), Opera North Education, January 2013 - Present
The Music Ambassadors Workshop, (Introductory Design Workshops for Primary School Teachers) Opera North, June 2012
‘Careers in Design’ workshop for Library Theatre Company Careers Week June 2011 and June 2012
Technical Youth Theatre and Summer School Workshops for Bristol Old Vic and Edinburgh Royal Lyceum Including activities in Wardrobe, Props and Scenic Art 2005-2007
CORPORATE EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS
Make/Believe SBTD exhibition, Nottingham Trent University January 2015
Stylist for ‘A Clockwork Orange’ Photoshoot exhibited at The Anthony Burgess Centre, Manchester 2012 Photography by Miklos Csepely-Knorr
Director of Degree Catwalk Costume Graduate Show for University of Huddersfield/ Lawrence Batley, Summer 2009, 2010,2011,2012,2013
Design for ‘The Red Shoes’ Exhibited at Manchester Library Theatre Closing Gala, 2011
Head Set Dresser For Visual Feast, Royal Bank of Scotland Awards, London, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Edinburgh Events 2006
Set Dresser, For Visual Feast, Bank of Scotland Conference, Birmingham NEC December 2005