Currently in development

Artistic Director / Co-writer / Producer - Deep Time Walk for children - Partners Deep Time Walk Project + Landscapes Wales

  • Outdoor immersive production through the Earth’s History

Writer - Y Flwyddyn Gyntaf (The First Year) - Cwmni Arad Goch

  • Immersive theatre production for babies and their caregivers

Writer - Sleeping Like a Baby

  • New play exploring the rollercoaster ride of becoming a mother

Co-writer with Melangell Dolma - new Welsh language play

Film + TV

Creator and Director of Short Documentary – Sharing the Load – BBC Wales + It’s My Shout

Introduction to Script Development with BBC Writersroom

  • Mentored by Kate Leys and Anna Seifert- Speck        

Beacons Short Fiction Film Development Award – Ffilm Cymru

  • Script Development session with Antoine Le Bos (script consultant and founder of Le Groupe Ouest)

  • Mentored by Roger Williams and Sion Thomas

Director of Short Fiction Film – Buddha Boy – BBC Wales and It’s My Shout

  • Winner of Made in Wales Best Short Film and Best Director

Theatre Employments

Associate Director and Creative Development Co-ordinator - Theatr Cymru (Welsh language National Theatre of Wales) 2017 - 2022

  • Day-to-day administration and managing creative development of commissioned projects

  • Script reading, writing script reports and giving writers both written and verbal feedback

  • Co-ordinating and attending script meetings and taking notes

  • Setting up and managing the company’s first new writers’ group and emerging directors’ group

  • Initiating and managing bursaries for underrepresented writers

  • Co-ordinating creative development budget and writer contracts

  • Giving artistic input into programming

Creative Assistant- Theatr Cymru 2013

  • Assisting with producing and administration

Literary Assistant – Sherman Theatre 2011-2012

  • Day-to-day administration of literary department

  • Producing new writing events showcasing new plays

  • Script reading, writing script reports and giving writers both written and verbal feedback

Theatre Directing

2025 Cofiwch Dryweryn by Mari Emlyn - Mewn Cymeriad / In Character - Toured Wales

2020 The Corn is Green by Emlyn Williams - National Theatre - Staff Director role (cut short due to Covid) - Dir. Dominic Cooke

2019 Y Cylch Sialc (The Caucasian Chalk Circle) by Bertolt Brecht, new Welsh adaptation by Mererid Hopwood + original music composed and performed by Gwenno - Theatr Cymru - Toured Wales

2019 Bachu by Melangell Dolma - Theatr Cymru + Theatr Clwyd + Melangell Dolma

2017 Hollti by Manon Williams - Theatr Cymru - Toured Wales

2015 +2016 Nansi by Angharad Price - Theatr Cymru - Toured Wales

2013 Y Bont by Angharad Thomas, Catrin Dafydd, Ceri Elen + Arwel Gruffydd - Theatr Cymru - Associate Director -Dir. Arwel Gruffydd

2012 Unprotected by Bethan Marlow - Wales Millenium Centre

2012 C’laen Ta by Bethan Marlow - Theatr Cymru - Associate Director - Dir. Bethan Marlow

2011 Outdoors by Rimini Protokoll - National Theatre of Wales and Rimini Protokoll - Emerging Director

2011 The Elves and the Shoemaker by Mike Kenny - Sherman Theatre - Associate Director - Dir. James Williams

2011 Desire Lines by Ian Rowlands - Sherman Theatre - Assistant Director - Dir. Irina Brown

2010 Kindling by the company - Mess up the Mess Theatre Company

2010 Miss Julie by August Strindberg - Living Pictures - Assistant Director

2009 A Christmas Carol by Gary Owen - Sherman Theatre - Assistant Director

2009 Yr Argae (The Weir) by Conor McPherson, Welsh adaptation by W.S.Jones - Sherman Theatre - Assistant Director - Dir. Arwel Gruffydd

2009 Amgen:Broken by Gary Owen - Sherman Theatre - Assistant Director - Dir. Elen Bowman

2009 Cinders by Louise Osborn - Sherman Theatre - Assistant Director - Dir. Louise Osborn

Freelance Dramaturgy

2023 Whimsy by Krystal Lowe - new dance theatre, Welsh language and BSL production - Theatr Cymru

2022 6 new short plays - Theatr Cymru + Urdd Gobaith Cymru

2020 3 new digital productions - Fy Ynys Las by Eddie Ladd, O Bengroes at Droed Amser by Karen Owen + Maggie Ogunbanwo, Er Cofid 19 by Er Cof - Theatr Cymru, National Theatre Wales, BBC Wales + BBC Arts

Education + Facilitation

  • Creative Writing Lecturer on BA Drama - UWE Bristol (teaching writing for stage and screen)

  • Hourly paid Drama Lecturer posts - University of South Wales (including directing 3rd year production), University of Wales Trinity St David’s and Cambria College

  • Workshop Leader – Copenhagen International School of Performing Arts

  • Teaching Assistant - Copenhagen International School

  • Youth Theatre Leader + Director – Sherman Youth Theatre- Director: Hudo + Assistant Director: Oedipus and Antigone, Kontact, Mi Generation, The Watching

  • Drama, Arts and Music workshop leader in primary and secondary schools

  • Workshop Leader – in schools, universities and in the community for Theatr Cymru

  • Tutor - Ty Newydd Creative Writing Centre - Playwriting workshop

  • Young Company Leader – Bristol Old Vic

Other roles

  • Emergent Artist Bursary – Theatr Iolo

  • Director of rehearsed readings – Dirty Protest + Sherman Theatre

  • Volunteer - Copenhagen International Theatre Festival included working with Station House Opera on Dominoes

  • Speaker on panel at Ceangal | Cwlwm, a gathering for artists making theatre in Scottish Gaelic, Irish and Welsh

  • Adjudicator for two national playwriting prizes in Wales at Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru and Urdd National Eisteddfod

Training

2008-2009 Theatre Director Training Course – Sherman Theatre + Living Pictures - mentored by Elen Bowman

Short courses with Living Pictures for directors -

  • Punchdrunk Company workshop - making immersive theatre

  • Chekhov Acting Technique - with Sinead O’Conner

  • Meisner Acting Technique - with Scott Williams

  • Stagecraft - with Tom Wright

  • Shared Experience Workshop - with Nancy Meckler

  • Boal Theatre of the Oppressed workshop

  • Thinking in Pictures - with Elen Bowman

1st Class Honours BA Drama and Theatre Studies - Aberystwyth University