HISTORY

January 2006 - December 2007
Arts Council England Bursary to work on a range of international arts projects as well as exploring new ways of working as a creative artist.

February 2007 - March 2007
Attended the One Year Immersion Programme of Film Production at The International Academy of Film and Television, Mactan Island, Cebu in the Philippines. Graduated March 2007.

April 1992 – December 2005
Artistic Director Northern Stage Ensemble, Newcastle Playhouse

October 1988 to March 1992
Artistic Director TAG Theatre Company

1985 to 1988
Associate Director Dundee Repertory Theatre

1980 to 1985
Freelance Director in Theatre & Television

1978 to 1980
Artistic Director Second City Theatre Company Birmingham

1975 to 1978
Associate Director, Emma Theatre Company in the East Midlands.

Production directed Northern stage include:
‘Manifesto For A New City’ - by Julia Darling
'BLAZE' - large scale community opera in collaboration with Creative Partnerships Tees Valley
Black Eyed Roses’ devised by the ensemble from Gypsy stories.
'1984' - adapted from George Orwell (has toured throughout Britain and internationally)
‘A Nightingale Sang’ by C.P. Taylor (also at the Edinburgh International Festival 1992)
‘Entertaining Mr Sloan’ - by Joe Orton
‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’ - by Anita Loos
‘Stars In The Morning Sky’ - by Alexander Galin
‘Animal Farm’- adapted from George Orwell (toured nationally and internationally)
‘A Clockwork Orange’ - adapted from Anthony Burgess (toured throughout Britain)
‘A Factory Romeo & Juliet’ - adapted from William Shakespeare
‘Twelfth Night’ - by William Shakespeare
‘Andorra’ - by Max Frisch
‘Foreign Lands’ - by Karen Hope
‘Edmond’ - by David Mamet
‘Blood Wedding’ - by Federico Garcia Lorca
‘The Ballroom of Romance’ - adapted from William Trevor
‘Pinocchio’ - adapted by Lee Hall from Carlo Collodi

Directed at TAG Theatre Company include:

‘The Dance and the Railroad’ - by David Henry Wong. (Large scale theatre piece involving Chinese Opera performers in co-production with Singapore)
‘The Secret Voice’ - by Stuart Paterson. (A children’s play for 10-11 year olds)
‘City’ - by Tom McGrath. (Large scale community play for Glasgow, The Tramway Theatre)
‘The Tempest’ - adapted from William Shakespeare. (Toured Scotland.
‘Sailmaker’ - by Alan Spence. (Toured Scotland and northern England.)
‘Twelfth Night’ - adapted from William Shakespeare (Toured Scotland and northern England)

Productions directed at Dundee Repertory Theatre include:

‘The Slab Boys’ and ‘Cuttin’ a Rug’ - by John Byrne.
‘They Fairly Mak Ye Work’ - by Billy Kay.
‘The Price’ - by Arthur Millar.
‘Can’t Pay Won’t Pay’ - by Dario Fo.
‘Loot’ and ‘Entertaining Mr Sloan’ - by Joe Orton.
‘The Big Picture’ - by Liz Lochhead.
‘Sailor Beware’ - by Philip King and Falkland Cary.
‘Dracula’ - by Ken Hill
‘Witch’s Blood’ - adapted by John Harvey.
‘The Snow Queen’ - by Stuart Paterson.
‘Merlin the Magnificant’ - by Stuart Paterson
‘Taking Steps’ - by Alan Ayckbourne.
‘Moby Dick – Rehearsed’ - by Orson Welles

Awards include

Awarded Best touring production 2003 for ‘1984’
Manchester Evening News

Awarded Best Touring production 2001 for ‘Far Side of the Moon’ 

Barclay/TMA Regional Awards
Awarded Special Achievement in Regional Theatre 2000
Barclay/TMA Regional Awards
Nominated Theatre of the Year 2001
Barclay/TMA Regional Awards
Nominated Best Touring Production 1998 for ‘A Clockwork Orange’
Barclay/TMA Regional Awards
Northern Electric Awards

Nominated Best Director 2002 for ‘The Ballroom of Romance’

Barclay/TMA Regional Awards
Nominated for International Theatre Award for Excellence in International Theatre 2002

Other
Panel of Stage Exchange Project with Audiences Yorkshire, funding innovate collaborations between Theatres and touring companies

Member of the Drama Panel – Scottish Arts Council

Member of the Scottish Arts Council Working Party on ‘New Writing’

Member of Scottish Arts Council Working Party on ‘Theatre for Young People’

Member of Scottish Arts Council Working Party on ‘Arts for a new Century’ – a charter for the arts in Scotland.

Artistic Director of Dundee Community Festival. Mounted two very successful large-scale community plays, ‘Witch’s Blood’ and ‘Witch’s Blood 2’.

Founding Chairman of Scottish National Association of Youth Theatres (SNAYT)

Co-deviser/director of eight week television series ‘Parent & Teenagers’, which explored the relationships between parents and their teenage children through improvised drama inserts and discussions.

Co-director of five week television series, ‘Starting Out’. A schools drama series for young people from 15 to 18.

Director of ‘Adam’s Story’. Half hour television drama for Tyne Tees Television

Winner of an Arts Council of Great Britain Bursaries 1976 and 2006