Really looking forward to my next collaboration with Leeds Conservatoire - this time working with multi-award winning storyteller, director, performer & writer Debs Newbold, as she directs Chris Hannan’s Crime & Punishment - an exciting, fresh and accessible…

Around the time I was composing for Twelfth Night & Macbeth at Leeds Playhouse, Leeds theatre company Wrongsemble kindly invited me to engineer the recorded music for their forthcoming Christmas show, A Town Called Christmas.  What could I say…

Fresh from performing three lovely shows at Saltaire Festival last month, Siân and I are looking forward to returning to Rotherham, where we have been invited to present our theatrical storytelling of Owl Babies at Rotherham Civic Theatre! The…

...seriously, if I had longer I'd have come up with a better title, but I was in rehearsals and wrote it in about three minutes so there you go. 

I'm beyond excited to be working as Composer, Sound Designer and…

Siân (my fantastic collaborator) and I are really chuffed to be performing Owl Babies at Saltaire Festival! 

We’re performing three times during the day on Sunday 11th September in Roberts Park.  Exact times and location to be confirmed…

I'm indebted to writer/directors Elvi Piper (Wrongsemble) and Dan Mallaghan (154 Collective) and Arts Council England, for helping me smash though my near ten-year creative roadblock, and start writing the script for Darcy Filthound in earnest.  

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On Tuesday 31st May, Siân and I are presenting our story performance of Owl Babies at Grimm’s Gathering, a pop-up festival celebrating stories of all shapes, featuring masterclasses and workshops with leading musicians, authors and artists, over the Old Town…

Owl Babies is going on a tour…of Bradford Libraries! 

Throughout Easter, Sian Williams and I will be presenting a magical, playful story performance, for free, at libraries throughout the Bradford District. 

Watch baby owls, woodland creatures and a grumpy magpie…

I'm beyond happy to be working as Musical Director for 509Arts' first touring production of Meal One.

Based on the wonderfully absurd children's book written by Ivor Cutler in 1971, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, it tells the story…

Hot on the heels of the great DYCP news comes the news that the achingly wonderful Wrongsemble have commissioned me to write the music for two new projects, AND musically direct a third.

It's going to be a busy summer...

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My application for the Arts Council’s Developing Your Creative Practice grant has been successful.  DYCP supports individuals who are cultural and creative practitioners and want to take time to focus on their creative development.  I'm a bit blown away -…

I’m so happy to be writing the theme music for Wrongsemble’s new production, HUMBUG. 

HUMBUG is a set of short online films, set at Christmas, that create a narrative which families can watch from home.  The script is…