I am an award-winning freelance theatre and film director, screenplay writer, poet and drama teacher based in Durham, UK.I am currently Artistic Director of Elysium Theatre Company, part of Elysium Creative Arts CIC. Elysium TC tours the north of England, with a special focus on the North East (www.elysiumtc.co.uk)I have worked in theatres all over the country with over 120 productions to my name, on new plays, revivals of classics and contemporary plays.New plays I have directed include premieres of work by Steve Byron, Gary Kitching, Janet Plater, Clare Whitehead, Paul Minx, Chris Dance, Amanda Dalton, Owen MacCafferty, Paul Herzberg, Amy Rosenthal, Brad Fraser, Pete Tucker, Sue Rodwell, Gerard McLarnon, John Cargill Thompson and John Watts.Other premieres include British, regional and North East premieres of work by Athol Fugard, Jez Butterworth, Stephen Adly Giurgis, Owen MacCafferty, David Williamson and Tom Murphy.Classical and contemporary revivals include work by William Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Samuel Beckett, Tom Murphy, August Wilson, Neil Simon, Tennessee Williams and Oscar Wilde.Drama school work includes productions of Joe Penhall, Brendan Behan, Federica Garcia Lorca, Bertold Brecht, Anton Chekhov, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Drama schools I have worked at include the ALRA North, the Arden School of Theatre, the Birmingham Conservatoire of Acting, the British American Drama Academy, Drama Studio, Mountview Academy, Newcastle College and Rose Bruford.Online work includes the Covid-19 Monologues, 15 pieces of new writing commissioned, rehearsed and filmed under lockdown conditions during the Covid pandemic. These won an Olwen Wymark Award for services to new writing from the Writers Guild of Great Britain in 2021. One, #TheMoth was selected for nearly 30 international film festivals and won Best Monologue at the Kwanzaa Film Festival, Harlem NYC in 2022.As a film director I have directed two short films: 'The Visit' by Paul Ludden of MancMade Productions and 'Sorrow', written by myself for Changeling Films.In 2017 I founded Elysium Theatre Company which has produced 12 stage productions and the 15 Covid-19 Monologues. We have also produced educational podcasts on 'The Island' by Athol Fugard, William Shakespeare's plays and the Reivers.To find out more about Elysium go to www.elysiumtc.co.uk