About

As Deputy Director of Sheffield Creative Industries Institute, I develop partnerships with external organisations and higher education institutions for the benefit of our students and staff, and to help meet our partners goals. I am a member of the HEA, published in the field of Arts and Health, and have been an external examiner or reviewer at eight other HEIs. As an academic I started at Bretton Hall, before coming to Sheffield Hallam, where I have previously been a course leader and a subject group leader, winning an inspirational teaching award on the way. I have delivered training to external organisations in management skills, such as appraisals and return to work interviews and have been a keynote speaker at a conference on ‘how to get students to speak’.

I was the founder and Artistic Director of Dead Earnest Theatre (specialists in Applied Theatre) for eighteen years and also worked extensively for Creative Partnerships. In my time at Dead Earnest, the company had a turn-over of over 1.5 million pounds, performed 150 touring and over 200 forum theatre shows, delivered 1,000 workshops and employed over 1,000 actors.

I have also directed 26 professional theatre productions, am the author of five full length plays and have worked as a professional actor. Whilst in charge of Dead Earnest, the Company was commissioned to work for many prestigious national organisations such as The General Medical Council, The Royal College of GPs, CAFCASS and numerous local authorities and universities, and was featured in The Department of Health and Arts Council publication A Prospectus for Arts and Health.

Applied Theatre

Teaching

Sheffield Creative Industries Institute

College of Social Sciences and Arts

Using performance to help people talk about bereavement

Film and Theatre

Courses Taught

Acting and Performance

Modules Taught

Drama in Education and the Community

Performing Comedy

Advanced Acting Techniques

Research

• Culture and Creativity Research Institute

Publications