Performance Design

I trained in Theatre & Performance Design at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in 2008. Since then I have designed for small and mid scale venues, as well as for site specific spaces across England. My role as a Designer has been to give a visual language to plays by new writers, sometimes collaborating with the cast who inhabit this World and building collective ownership in the process of theatre-making.

I have designed the sets, costumes, props, created puppets through scale model and maquette making, free drawing, technical drawings and creation of mood boards as tools to communicate design themes, problem solving and logistics of managing movement through performance. I have worked alongside directors in the early design stage to explore, research and determine the concepts, contexts and nuances of the characters and plot, discovering new avenues and forms that feel fitting to the storytelling.

I have also written for theatre and carried out stage management roles. I have performed with Bunraku puppets and a Theatre For One puppet show at festivals in the UK. I have also delivered puppetry making workshops in community spaces, schools and in a prison setting.

Theatre Making and Design Production credits:

‘Memory Of Water’ (2007) by LIPA student production (Assistant Designer)

‘Playhouse Creatures’ (2007) by LIPA student production (Designer)

‘Transition’ (2008) & ‘Spirit of Liverpool’ (2008) by Chaturangan for Liverpool Culture Company (Co-Designer)

‘Doors: This Life Was Given To Me’ (2007) by Red Ladder Theatre Company (Assistant Designer)

‘The Cornershop’ (2008 & 2009) by Black Country Touring & Foursight Theatre Company (Assistant Designer)

‘Where’s Vietnam?’ (2008) by Red Ladder Theatre Company (Assistant Designer and ASM)

‘Discovering the Ramayana’ (2008) by The Fetch Theatre Company (Designer)

‘Giraffe’s Can’t Dance’ (2009) by Chaturangan (Designer)

‘1001’ (2009) by Peshkar Productions (Designer)

‘Untitled’ short play – (2009) The Write House, Oldham Coliseum (Writer)

‘The Muslim Tommies’ (2009) – BBC Religion (Designer)

‘Basant Lahore’ (2009) by The Fetch Theatre Company (Designer, Puppet maker)

‘Design Direct’ programme – (‘A Child Of The Divide’) (2009) by Tamasha Theatre Company

‘Hijaab’ (2009) by Arakan Creative (Designer)

‘Street Voices 3’ (2010) by Freedom Studios (Designer)

‘Halimo’ (2011) by Cecil Green Arts (Maker/Puppeteer)

‘Our City, Our Stories’ (2013) by Northern Lines Theatre (Community Performer)

‘Shed Loada Paint’ (2014) at Bradford Festival (Performing Artist & Design)

‘Orgreave: An English Civil War’ (2014) by Northern Lines Theatre Company (Designer)

‘Hurr’, (2014) by Northern Lines Theatre Company (Designer)

‘Grooming Ground’ (2014) by Uzma Kazi, with via-media (Performance Art) (Designer, Maker, Performer)

‘Lister’s Lanterns’ & ‘Out Of The Ashes’ (2014-2017) by Cecil Green Arts (Supporting Artist, Puppet making)

‘My Brother’s Country’ (2015) by Northern Lines Theatre Company (Designer)

‘Home From Home’ (2015) at Bradford Festival (Performing Artist & Design)

‘99% Halal’ (2015) by Shazia Ashraf (Designer/Stage Management)

‘Tongue, Tied & Twisted’ (2016) Black Country Touring (Designer)

‘Artist Ordeal’ (2016) Theatre For One; Horse & Bamboo Theatre Company (Designer, Maker, Puppeteer)

‘North Country’ (2016) by Freedom Studios (Designer)

‘Bradford: A Hidden History’ (2017) by Daniel Foulds (Designer)

‘Flight’ (2018) by Nuzhat Ali (Bolton Octagon Theatre) (Designer)

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