Some of the key projects I've been involved in over the past few years:
Training:
Drama and arts-based projects:
Training:
- Training young people in key issues around international development and active citizenship as part of Restless Development's ICS programme
- Training actors in facilitation skills for a London Theatre in Education tour
- Working with the GREAT Initiative to develop their Great Men Value Women pilot, and training the volunteer facilitators. Find out more about this project here and read an article in the Telegraph here
- Working with Digital Disruption to deliver training to Youth Offending Teams and the Ministry of Justice looking at extremism prevention
Drama and arts-based projects:
- 10 week project with Only Connect and Camden Pupil Referral Unit using drama to explore a range of themes
- Managing aspects of a touring Theatre in Education production and workshops across London
- Actor, workshop facilitator and deviser with Le Petite Artiste Children's Theatre
- Teaching drama and film at the Lifeline Institute, Dagenham - an alternative education provider for excluded young people and recently arrived refugees/migrants
- Film projects for Tender Education and Arts in a number of settings including with young people with special needs in collaboration with Camden Pirate Castle and Community Focus as well as with young people in supported housing in Tower Hamlets
- Numerous drama-based projects in secondary schools and primary schools looking at substance misuse, sexual health and healthy relationships - including domestic violence, honour-based violence and forced marriage
- Devising a piece of children's theatre with fathers at HMP Doncaster in collaboration with Second Shot
- Drama-based sessions at HMP Wormwood Scrubs
- Planning Only Connect's delivery of UNITAS Summer Arts Colleges (a summer programme working with young offenders) and training ex-offenders to assist in the facilitation of the project
- Directing a devised performance with a group of young ex-offenders for TATE Modern's Hyperlink Festival
- Devising, performing and making puppets for a short piece of Theatre in Education for a Leeds Primary School with West Yorkshire Playhouse