Performance Activist & Researcher
Bio
I'm a performance artist from North East England, mainly exploring our relationship with non-human animals and how we can actively live in a symbiosis with all beings for their and our own human benefit. Animal justice is at the heart of my work.
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My performance skills have grown from my training at East 15 Acting School, as a theatre maker and director. I've gone on to be instructed in Eastern Theate with the Indonesian Institute of the Arts Denpasar, and had the opportunity to broaden my practice in puppetry with the Little Angel Theatre and Sunflower Network. I have a PhD in Performance Studies from De Montfort University, exploring performance and trauma in animal rights activism.
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Now as a practice-based researcher and performance activist, I look to probe performance as a tool in bringing about positive change in the social justice movement, particularly animal rights and environmentalism. As part of this mission I've created the creative campaigns lad and research hub Performing Animal Rights, and formed the animal theatre company Bright Eyes Theatre Arts, which centres the non-human animal story through performance in theatres and schools.
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Presentations & Publications
September 2025
Fox, Flesh, and Future Selves: Performing the Collapse of the Human in Animal Rights Activism
Beyond Anthropo-Scenes
University of York
August 2025
Beyond the Human: Interspecies Performance and the Power of Absence
TaPRA Conference 2024
University of Warwick
May 2025
Performing Change: The Role of Creative Practices in Cultivating Interspecies Empathy and Action
EACAS Conference 2025
Berlin
May 2024
Performing Animal Rights: Narratives of Trauma, Empathy and Activism in the UK
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CfHAS PGRs Symposium
Edge Hill University
February 2022
Performing Animal Rights
Creativity with Impact
De Montfort University
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September 2025
Theatre as Direct Action: Lessons from Performance Activism
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International Animal Rights Conference 2025
Luxembourg
July 2025
Performing Advocacy: The Transformative Role of Performance in Reframing Human-Animal Relations
PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference
University of Edinburgh
February 2025
De Montfort University
August 2023
Transposing the gates of a slaughterhouse: from passive violence to active compassion through the performance of a vigil.
TAPRA Conference 2023
Leeds University
August 2025
Theatre as Direct Action: A Creative Workshop on Performance Activism
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Conference for Animal Liberation Copenhagen
Copenhagen
June 2025
Performance of Animality in the Public Sphere: Embodying Nonhuman Narratives in Carnivalesque Activism
2025 IFTR Annual Conference
University of Cologne
August 2024
Moo-ving the margins: Soya the Cow and the subversion of speciesism through drag performance
TaPRA Conference 2024
Northumbra University
June 2022
Splintering the idyll of the British countryside with interspecies performance
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2022 IFTR Annual Conference
The University of Iceland
February 2022
Blurring Borders Between Specieis, Through Shared Traumas & Confronted Contrasts
Borderlines Postgraduate Symposium
De Montfort University
Qualifications
2025
PhD in Performance Studies
De Montfort University
2018
Post-Graduate Certificate in Ed
Newcastle University
2013
MFA in Theatre Directing
East 15 Acting School
2011
BA in English & Drama
University of Sunderland
Teaching & Research Roles
2024 -
Founder & Director
Performing Animal Rights
2023-2024
Lecturer in Acting
Northern School of Art
2021-2022
Lecturer in Drama
De Montfort University
2021
Research Assistant
De Montfort University
Training & Development
2019-2021
DIGITAL STORYTELLING
CErTiFY & Loughborough University
2021
PUPPETRY
The Little Theatre
2019
PUPPET MAKING FOR USE IN HEALING SELF-CONCEPT
The Sunflower Network
2013
WAYANG KULIT
Indonesian Institute of Arts Denpasar