Past Projects
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A performance and visual art project exploring the hidden boundaries between neighbouring communities. Co-created with artist Uzma Rani and rooted in academic research, Blurring the Edges invites audiences to reflect on identity, difference, and connection—through sound, conversation, and immersive art.
A female and non-binary, immigrant-led theatre company amplifying the voices of historically marginalised global artists. From new writing nights to acclaimed anthologies, Global Voices Theatre championed decolonised practice, cross-border collaboration, and fresh international perspectives on British stages. The was established in 2018 and officially closed in 2025.
Sheffield Pioneers
I took part in a 6 month peer-led group hosted by Stella McKenna using the Enrol Yourself methodology. My learning questions was: how do I bring all the things I do under one cohesive umbrella? Which morphed into: How to work less and create more?
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The exploration culminated in a public showcase on 18th November 2023 in Sheffield.
Becoming [...]
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Becoming […] is a series of co-created, site-specific residencies exploring identity and belonging through the voices of local first-generation migrants. From immersive gatherings to protest performances, each chapter - across the UK, Germany, Romania, and the Czech Republic – responded to its local context. Supported by Perform Europe in 2022, the series reimagined touring as locally relevant, rooted, collaborative, and politically engaged.
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2022​​
BECOMING CZECH Centrum experimentálního divadla, Brno, Czechia ​
BECOMING ROMANIAN Replika Center, Bucharest, Romania​
BECOMING GERMAN/ALMAN Oyoun, Berlin, Germany​
BECOMING BRITISH Bloc Projects, 71 Eyre St, Sheffield, S1 4RB​
The Snake bites the Hardest when it knows it is Dying
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The Snake is a documentary theatre piece, narrating in a fragmented way what happened to two Bulgarian women who opposed big business and the ruling party.
Watch our March 2021 online R&D (starts from 24min) <<<<< here
With One Voice / Arts & Homelessness International
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In 2017 I started working with Streetwise Opera. What was meant to be a short term freelance contract ended up being a life-changing 5 year long journey. I first joined the team as Development Manager helping to raise 200K+ budget for the With One Voice international arts & homelessness movement Streetwise was incubating. I then became the movement's International Producer, delivering the Doodle of Ducie Street mural and the world´s first arts & homelessness summit and festival.
In 2019, With One Voice became an independent charity which I helped set up with director Matt Peacock. From 2019 to 2022 as Arts & Homelessness International's executive producer I worked to advocate for the inclusion of creativity in homelessness provision around the UK and abroad. I co-created training for cultural spaces responding to homelessness challenges and a brand new leadership programme for people who are or have been homeless. I delivered workshops and talks whilst looking after the movements' strategy, fundraising and daily operations. In February 2022 I left AHI to focus on my freelance creative practice.
The People’s Tribunal On Crimes of Aggression: Afghanistan Series
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In summer 2021 I shadowed BÉZNÄ‚ Theatre as Assistant Director on their directional artistic tribunal built and run by impacted communities. It was a great insight into some of the company’s process around gathering interviews, dramaturgy and walking the line between fictional and real life accounts.
To read more about BÉZNÄ‚ Theatre’s work visit: http://www.beznatheatre.org/
Seeds: The round Shape of all Things Red
In 2019 I directed the Arcola Theatre’s Women Group. I worked with 20 other women from all walks of life (some professionally trained and others not) to create a devised show based on mythological stories from around the world. Through this lens we explored our lived experiences and interrogated the stories that feed our beliefs of who we are/should be.
Seeds was a great experience and a super moving show with some dark accents. Unfortunately, a few pomegranates were hurt in the process… (but turned into jam afterwards!)
http://thecompletefreedomoftruth.com/
Between 2014 and 2017 I took part in TCFT, a residential style festival which grew into a transnational, youth-led network of artists, activists and change makers. I took part in the TCFT editions in the UK, Bosnia and Italy and did a variety of things from assisting-producing to creating performances and multimedia happenings and co-artistic directing an epic promenade performance with Cirque Bijou’s Billy Allwen.
TCFT was a great place to connect with peers, learn from established practitioners and find my voice as a young practitioner.
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CASA Latin American Theatre Festival
CASA was my very first paid job in the creative industries in the UK! I started as a volunteer and grew to be the festival’s executive producer. Between 2013 and 2016 I supported 77 international and 213 UK based Latin American artists and worked with 36 staff, over 20 paid interns and 100+ volunteers to reach circa 10,000 audiences and 1000+ participants. I worked at Oval House, Rich Mix and the Barbican and managed our offices in Marsh Wall and Hannibal House.
CASA was truly my home and where I learned a lot about producing, managing an organisation and working internationally.