Training

The London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA):

Initiation and Advanced Course 2005 - 07, Lecoq based movement course covering - Acting, Physical Theatre, Mime, Clowning, Mask (full and half mask), Movement Analysis, Improvisation, Devising, Alexander Technique, Acrobatic Tumbling, Writing for the Stage and Voice Training.

The Central School of Speech and Drama, London:

BA Hons Drama and Education 1999 - 2000, covering performance and drama teacher training with weekly voice/ movement classes and placements in school and arts settings.

Other Practical Performance Training:

Movement Direction in Opera (1 2 1 mentoring & shadowing) - Kate Flatt OBE (Royal Ballet Opera & Royal College of Music)

Movement Direction - Ayse Tashkiran (RCSSD & RSC)

Puppetry and Object Manipulation - Sue Buckmaster (Theatre Rites) & Rachel Warr (Dotted Line Theatre)

Movement Direction - Chris Evans (Gecko)

Theatre Direction - George Perrin (Paines Plough)

The Role of the Director in the Devising Process - Paul Hunter (Told by an Idiot)

Masked Performance and Physical Theatre for Teachers - Helen Barnett (Trestle)

Masked Performance - Honor Hoskins (Vamos Theatre)

Physical Theatre - Marcello Magni (Complicite)

Physical Theatre and Clowning - Linda Kerr (Complicite)

Physical Theatre - Lorna Marshall

Physical Theatre - Kosta Andrea Sekulic (Lecoq)

Masked Performance - Toby Welcher (Trestle)

Commedia Dell'Arte - Didi Hopkins

The Language of Tragedy - Clare Higgins

Comic Timing - Maureen Lipman

Performing Comedy - Victoria Wood

Voice Performance - Cicely Berry (RSC)

Performing on Camera - Denis Lawson

Burlesque Dance and Hula Hoop - Tempest Rose, Viva Misadventure and Polestars

Pilates/ Yoga - weekly classes

Writing Training

The University of Cardiff:

2010-11, Creative Writing and Scripting TV Drama

The University of Hertfordshire:

2009-10, Creative and Autobiographical Writing - From Fact to Fiction.

The Royal Court Theatre, London:

2006, The Young Writer's Programme, mentored by Leo Butler

Practical Writing Workshops attended:

Writing for the Big Stage - Mike Bartlett,

Writing for the Stage - Simon Stephens,

'Story' Seminar  - Robert McKee,

Writing for the West End - Greg Mosse,

Writing for the Screen - Linda La Plante,

Writing and Performing - Harold Pinter,

Writing for TV - Meera Syal,

Writing for Stage and Screen - Stephen Poliakoff,

Writing for the Stage - Tom Stoppard,

Writing for the Stage - Dominic Cooke,

Scriptwriting and Final Draft - Ian Staples,

Script Structure - Tim Price.