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…

...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…

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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After the inevitable delays and breaks caused by Covid, weather, families and isolated outbreaks of procrastination, it's been great to Get Back (see what I did there?  Sorry) into Trapdoor Studios this month, to begin the final push towards finishing…

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 -…