I’m a multihyphenate artist working mainly in the intersections of movement and theatre.
A mover who directs. A director who moves.
Somewhere between cross arts, and whatever happens when the rules get ripped up.
Rooted in the physical, Raised by Hip Hop Culture
Seasoned in rooms where collaboration is messy, electric, alive.
I bring bold physicality, sharp instinct, and a pulse you can feel in your chest.
My work doesn’t sit politely beside a story, It grabs it. Shapes it. Becomes it. Cares for it.
I create where character meets chaos, comedy undercuts truth, movement and text collide to make something louder.
My mission is to amplify voices that deserve more space, more volume, more time.
Holding space for stories and people that refuse to shrink themselves.
A true trailblazer for intersectional female empowerment .
Bring me your half-formed idea, your ambitious plan, your "we're not quite sure how this works yet.”
I love working with exciting ideas, the bigger, smaller, stranger, or more unexpected, the better. Whether you're making a show, shaping a project, building an experience, or exploring something entirely new, I enjoy asking questions, following possibilities, and seeing what emerges when we stay open to discovery.
I'm drawn to people with imagination, courage, and a willingness to try things differently. If you're looking for someone who'll lean into the unknown and say "what if?", I'm in.
EDUCATION
Over 25 years experience teaching across higher education, schools, communities, and professional arts organisations.
I specialise in Hip Hop culture, dance history, and vernacular dance forms.
Workshops • lectures• choreography in Locking, Popping, and Hip Hop.
MOVEMENT
My approach to movement direction is collaborative, playful, and people-led.
I create movement from the performers, ideas, and stories in the room, always leaving space for discovery and experimentation.
I enjoy working with imagery , sound and text as a starting point for any movement.
Movement Direction for theatre• circus,• cabaret• film• interdisciplinary projects.
THEATRE
Director, theatre-maker, and lover of untold stories.
My own work often combines social themes, dark humour, Hip Hop influences, and the unexpected, from youth theatre to large-scale productions.
I'm particularly passionate about developing new work, site-specific performance,and cross-artform collaboration.
Directing • Dramaturgy • Facilitation • Creative Development
MENTORING
Drawing on years of experience across the arts, education, and community sectors, I support artists, creatives, and organisations looking for clarity, confidence, or a fresh perspective.
From developing ideas to navigating challenges, I offer honest conversation and practical guidance.
Artist Development • R&D • Script Development • Confidence Building • Creative Strategy
HOSTING
Having a battle, festival, performance, wedding, or community event?
I'm a confident fun host, who brings energy, warmth, and a strong connection with the audience.
Whether keeping a battle flowing, hosting a performance night with a tight schedule, or making sure the dance floor stays alive, I'm here to help make your event unforgettable.
Host • Presenter • Crowd Engagement • Event Support
Movement Director
Donmar Warehouse
The Donmar Warehouse’s local schools tour produced the world premiere of Frankenstein Adjusts His Ring Light (And Then Starts Dancing), a vibrant, tech-inspired reimagining of Mary Shelley's classic. Written by Eve Leigh and directed by Anthony Lau, the production toured local schools in the summer of 2025 to explore grief, technology, and the unintended consequences of refusing to let go
Movement Director
Barbican
Lil.Miss.Lady takes you on a journey through the history of Black-British, Bass-music culture from the early stages of Jungle, through UK Garage, Sub-low, Funky House, Dubstep and Grime. Written and directed by Dominic Garfield, it features original music by Lady Lykez mixed live by DJ Kaylee Kay and guests The HighRise collective use music, theatre and first-hand testimonies to represent unheard voices in inner-city Britain.
Co-Director
Birmingham Weekender
"A Place Between Mass & Echoes" is just the beginning for Inviktus, a project that has grown from a simple idea into a powerful show for audiences and internally a group of movers who support each other. the show is both a love letter and a manifesto. It celebrates community, identity, and the power of skating. It captures the feeling of a street skate jam, while also pushing that energy into new choreographic and artistic territory. This show is an exploration of non-verbal communication, the power of movement, and the deep interconnectivity of community. Our identities are an important layer to who we are, but not the boundary of the work.
Co-Director & Choreographer
Art Centre Melbourne
Agenre-defying, high-energy performance created by the award-winning collective Hot Brown Honey. It features seven fierce BIPOC femme artists in a bold celebration of radical joy and matriarchal power, fusing theatre, poetry, music, and circus to challenge the status quo. The production ran at The Show Room, Arts Centre Melbourne 2025. Developed through an intensive, collaborative process, the work serves as a collective love letter to honour ancestors and empower marginalized voices.
Peformer/ Ensemble
International
" The Trailblazer" in the criticallly acclaimed Australian performance collective Hot Brown Honey Hot Brown Honey is an Australian group of phenomenal female performers who smash stereotypes, remix the system and dare to celebrate our similarities and differences. Serving up an audacious platter of dance, poetry, comedy, circus, striptease and song, Hot Brown Honey is unapologetically fierce - defiantly challenging perceptions of gender, colour and privilege and shattering clichés in an explosion of colour, culture and controversy
Movement Director
Soho Theatre
Loosely based on the DSTRKT nightspot incident of 2015, Queens of Sheba tells the hilarious, moving and uplifting stories of four passionate Black Women battling every-day misogynoir; where sexism meets racism. by Jessica L. Hagan and Ryan Calais Cameron Directed by: Jessica Kaliisa
Creator & Choreographer
Trinity Laban Conservatoire
BA Hons 3 rd year Student Commisson work. What if we let go an mix everything? A exploritive work with the students around what is new and what is old and how do we move today with that knowledge. Choreographed and created by Yami Lofvenberg
Assistant Director & Movement Director
Sheffield Theatre & National tour
A co-production with Sheffield Theatres, BIRDS AND BEES opened 25th January 2023 at the Playhouse in Sheffield and toured to theatres and schools nationally until the end of March 2023. Play by Charlie Josephine focused on sex positivity, online safety, consent, and identity, developed for teenagers. Director: Rob Watt
Movement Director
The Royal Court
Imposter 22 was a landmark, collaboratively-devised play presented at the Royal Court Theatre in London. Co-produced by the performance charity Access All Areas, the show ran on the main stage and featured a groundbreaking cast of learning disabled and autistic actors who explored neurodiversity, prejudice, and systemic barriers in a theatrical setting. It follows a group of neurodivergent friends trying to figure out the truth behind the death of a neurotypical hanger-on to their group. They enlist the audience as witnesses and cast a neurotypical man (played by Hamilton star Jamael Westman) to play the role of the deceased Director: Hamish Pirie
Assistant Director & Movement Director
Sheffield Theatre & Theatre Centre
Dizzy a play by Mohamed-Zain Dada Its a fantastical adventure exploring memory and mortality, graffiti and grief, and finding meaning amidst the chaos. Dizzy toured UK schools and theatres in Autumn 2024, in co-production with Sheffield Theatres. Directed by Rob Watt
Movement Director
Lamda
Roy Williams' Sucker Punch looks back on what it was like to be young and Black in the 80s and asks if the right battles have been fought, let alone won. Directed by Tramaine Trace Theatre: Lamda
Movement Director
Lamda
"Is God Is" is a critically acclaimed play written by Aleshea Harris and Directed by Kaleya Baxe. The Carne Studio Theatre Lamda A revenge tale about two women seeking justice and taking control of their own narratives, Is God Is collides the ancient and the modern, the tragic and the Spaghetti Western, hip-hop and Afropunk
Movement Director
Talawa Theatres
"Bougie Lanes Boulangerie" by celebrated poet Kareem Parkins-Brown, which was developed and showcased as a major production by the Talawa Theatre Company Directed by: Philip J Morris "Love in gravitational waves" is a play written by Testament and directed by Brigitte Adela as part of the Talawa Firsts touring double-bill. Inspired by over 40 interviews with people in London, the fast-paced comedy-drama explores modern dating, identity, and mixed message
Movement Director
Manchester International Festival
Notes on Grief is a poignant stage adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s best-selling memoir, detailing the sudden loss of her 88-year-old father, James Nwoye Adichie, during the global pandemic. Commissioned as a world premiere for the Manchester International Festival, the verbatim production blends prose with immersive storytelling, video projection, and song. Director : Rae Mcken
Movement Director
The Barbican & Highrise Entertainment
Challenging myths about UK Drill music and its links to youth violence, this radically honest and direct show takes real-life experiences to explore the truths behind the headlines. HighRise Entertainment are an acclaimed theatre collective whose work uses original music, video projection and first-hand testimony to represent unheard voices and forgotten communities. Led by Artistic Director Dominic Garfield & winners of the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award in 2022.
Assistant Director & Choreographer
Dublin Fringe / Project Art Centre
Hive City Legacy: Dublin Chapter is a genre-bending, high-energy live theatre production led by a fierce ensemble of femmes of colour based in Ireland. Created by Hot Brown Honey and Quiet Riot, the show debuted at the Project Arts Centre in September 2022 as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival HIVE CITY LEGACY: Dublin Chapter won Best Ensemble Award (a standout piece of brilliance that defied traditional categorization) at the Judges' Choice Award at the 2022 Dublin Fringe Festival
Movement Director
Brixton House
Premiered in 2022 at Brixton House (London) before touring, directed by Anna Himali Howard. Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan is a 2022 debut play by Waleed Akhtar that explores the 2004 launch of Afghanistan's first youth music TV show. Inspired by true stories post-US invasion, it follows two young friends navigating political turmoil to play Western pop, exploring themes of hope, repression, and freedom
Movement director
The Pleasance & Highrise
The Concrete Jungle Book is a hip hop musical which catapults Rudyard Kipling’s classic story into inner-city Britain with live rap music, grime, spoken word and high energy physicality. Written and directed by Dominic Garfield and musical director and co-writer of the score Kwame Kwei-Armah JR (aka KZ the Producer
Movement Director
Paines Plough
A Paines Plough and Rose Theatre production -Roundabout Summer Season. A play by award-winning writer Laura Lindow, The Ultimate Pickle is about the importance of stories, the imagination, and how our little ones deal with grief. A show for all the family and any friendly wolves!
Movement Director
Paines Plough
A Paines Plough and Rose Theatre production, in association with Gate Theatre A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain from award-winning playwright Sami Ibrahim is a poetic fable of an impenetrable immigration system that mirrors our own. Directed by Gate Theatre’s Associate Director Yasmin Hafesji.
Movement Director
Theatre Centre & Sheffield Theatres
Written by RYAN CALAIS CAMERON Directed by ROB WATT When Roger is rehomed, Harry is left behind in the care system, and these “brothers” grow up in opposite ends of Britain’s social spectrum. Then on Harry’s birthday, Runako (Roger’s reclaimed Zimbabwean birth name) returns for a dream reunion that turns into a nightmare situation. Human Nurture went on a national School and Theatre tour 2022
Movement Director
Royal Court Theatre
Rare Earth Mettle is a 2021 satirical play by British playwright Al Smith, staged at London's Royal Court Theatre. The Premise Set on the Bolivian salt flats, the play explores global power, climate change, and the pursuit of lithium. It centers on a Silicon Valley billionaire (Henry Finn, modeled after figures like Elon Musk) who is vying with a British medical researcher to control the region's natural resource. Director: Hamish Pirie Starring: Genevieve O’Reilly, Arthur Darvill & Jaye Griffiths
Movement Director
The Royal court
Edition 7 of the Living Newspaper at London’s Royal Court Theatre was the final installment of the 2020-2021 rapid-response theatrical series. The grand finale was written and curated by a collective of young writers (aged 14–21) It explored the anticipation of emerging from lockdown, navigating youth experiences during the pandemic, the contrast between online and IRL (in real life) personas, and the fleeting friendships of youth. Directors: Ola Ince,Philip Morris, Hamish Pirie
Movement Director
The Yard
Explores the competitive and often turbulent friendship of two teenage girls in a New York City fencing club training for the Junior Olympics. Athena was a critically acclaimed coming-of-age fencing comedy by playwright Gracie Gardner. The UK premiere was a collaboration between the National Theatre and Hackney Wick's stripped-back, ending its sold-out run in October 2021 Directed by: Grace Gummer Theatre: The Yard
Movement Director
The Bunker
The world of sex work is something that most know little about, beside a multitude of stereotypes. Performer, writer and stripper Joana Nastari wants to change that. Her debut play F*** You Pay Me, is amplifying the voices of sex workers and highlighting how dangerous attitudes put them at risk everyday. Directed by Bethany Pitts
Assistant Director & Choreographer
Roundhouse & National Tour
Hive City Legacy London is an acclaimed, high-energy theatre production co-produced by Roundhouse and the creators of Hot Brown Honey. It is a "riotous shake-up" featuring a diverse cast of femmes of color who use spoken word, aerial acrobatics, beatboxing, and dance to tackle issues of race, sexuality, and mental health It returned to the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, London, in July 2019.
Dance Consultant / Captain & Featured dancer
Olympic Stadium
London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony. Directed by Danny Boyle and titled the segment "Second to the right, and straight on till morning" The segment's tribute to Great Ormond Street Hospital while also celebrating the UK's National Health Service (NHS) with a routine of dancing nurses and child patients, including the dramatic arrival of the literary villains and the magical flying sequence of Mary Poppins.
Movement Director
Donmar Warehouse
Movement Director
Barbican
Co-Director
Birmingham Weekender
Co-Director & Choreographer
Art Centre Melbourne
Peformer/ Ensemble
International
Movement Director
Soho Theatre
Creator & Choreographer
Trinity Laban Conservatoire
Assistant Director & Movement Director
Sheffield Theatre & National tour
Movement Director
The Royal Court
Assistant Director & Movement Director
Sheffield Theatre & Theatre Centre
Movement Director
Lamda
Movement Director
Lamda
Movement Director
Talawa Theatres
Movement Director
Manchester International Festival
Movement Director
The Barbican & Highrise Entertainment
Assistant Director & Choreographer
Dublin Fringe / Project Art Centre
Movement Director
Brixton House
Movement director
The Pleasance & Highrise
Movement Director
Paines Plough
Movement Director
Paines Plough
Movement Director
Theatre Centre & Sheffield Theatres
Movement Director
Royal Court Theatre
Movement Director
The Royal court
Movement Director
The Yard
Movement Director
The Bunker
Assistant Director & Choreographer
Roundhouse & National Tour
Dance Consultant / Captain & Featured dancer
Olympic Stadium
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