Since I chose to become an actor and love theatre and film I focus on creating and presenting.
My work always involves being with people and creating something which is uniquely ours, an experience based on exploring and enjoying an activity together.
I act, I write, I direct, record, film...but essentially these activities are always about a creative, shared experience.
This is now reflected in many different ways:
I am happy to act as a speaker for recordings or interpret literature and dramatic texts and act occasionally in films but I equally enjoy running drama sessions, courses as well as singing songs, exploring scenes and action games with children.
I have worked with groups, as small as 4 or as large as 140. Perhaps starting with a word (apple?) and ending with a situation (an apple tree in a garden, the apples almost ripe, the birds singing, not a cloud in the sky and a couple lying on the grass declaring their love for each other???).
The situation can be simpler or more complex (an assassin, dressed in black, behind the tree, waiting for the moment to strike, jealousy??) but in only an hour or an hour and a half it’s possible to develop a story and even act it out - extending the initial word and image beyond words and imagination into the actual, the physical, the emotional, into time and space, there and then.
Over longer periods it’s possible to develop productions, story books, poetry recitals, musicals, short films, songs, work with English literature...etc.
In this way I travel, meet people, use my training as an actor, my experience in the theatre, film and workshops/courses, with people like Dario Fo and Keith Johnstone, and explore the fun of creating and sharing.
