My Journey So Far

Theatre has been a long enduring love. I developed a liking for playwriting after being selected to be part of Belgrade Theatre’sCritical Mass cohort in 2010. At the end of the programme, my play received a rehearsed reading. Seeing my words come to life like that was absolutely thrilling and I knew I would return to playwriting one day - but in the meantime I needed to let ‘life take over’ for a while. 

I travelled widely following graduating from Critical Mass, lived in some pretty incredible places (more on that later). Several years later kids and motherhood followed. All of this meant writing took the backseat for a while. But having said that, I did try and be involved with theatre companies wherever I went - from training as a Lightning Operator at Edinburgh’s Leith Theatre (where I had the opportunity to work as a lighting assistant for nearly a dozen shows, including two during Edinburgh Fringe) to working as a theatre reviewer during Edinburgh Fringe to, more recently, working as set designer at Rugby Theatre. While living and working in India, I also worked closely with a local theatre group to develop a piece of street theatre, in an attempt to raise awareness about better sanitary practices.

All of these experiences have given me a very rounded understanding of theatre-making and deepened my love for it. 

Poetic Theatre Makers

In 2019, back in the UK and more ‘settled’, I was keen to return to playwriting and develop my practice. It was therefore extremely exciting to be selected as one of six (alongside the likes if Casey Bailey and Jasmine Gardosi) to be part of the country’s first programme designed to develop the presentation of poetry in theatre: Poetic Theatre Makers, a twelve-week workshop series produced by Apples and Snakes in collaboration with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and led by theatre makers Chris Thorpe and Somalia Seaton. 

The work that has come out of this project is a theatre piece called (Don’t) Wait Your Turn (originally titled A Day at the Bus Stop). The play looks at the ongoing global and daily challenges of women across the world whilst drawing inspiration from goddess Adi Shakti, the supreme feminine power as described in Hindu Mythology.

Pass it On: An Evening of Monologues

Between 2018 and 2020, Yellow Coat Theatre developed two of my pieces as part of their Pass it On series through unheard conversations women have with each other to survive and thrive in our world is highlighted.

My piece Liability, produced in 2018, focuses on a woman who finds herself in a foreign country and is beginning to realise her marriage, and ultimately her future, is not what she thought it would be.

In my second piece, Extra Baggage, produced in 2019/20, a woman guides her younger sister on what to pack as she prepares to leave to study abroad.

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