Producing & Project Management
GROUND
Theatre in the Rough
400 PARTS PER MILLION
Theatre in the Rough
400 SECONDS PER PODCAST
Theatre in the Rough
COASTLANDS
Theatre in the Rough
GROUND
Producer
GROUND is an artistic exploration of Climate Anxiety.
But we’re not talking doom and gloom. We’re talking coffee, cake and creativity.
A team of ten climate-conscious artists joined Theatre in the Rough on a journey of hope. To explore their climate concerns. And create new work in collaboration with the non-human world.
Working with Zero Carbon Liverpool and the Climate Psychology Alliance, Theatre in the Rough produced a series of Climate Cafés and eco-arts workshops.
The project resulted in a new film installation shown at The Atkinson in Southport in spring 2023, alongside a publication of participants’ original work distributed to all secondary schools in the borough of Sefton.
Funded by the Liverpool ONE Greener Futures Fund.
400 PARTS PER MILLION
Producer | Co-Director
400 Parts Per Million was a global, digital-first festival of environmental citizenship.
It was a female-led project, predicated on exploring women’s experience of the Climate Crisis through a concatenation of the arts and sciences.
Its focus emerged principally from the fact that, globally, women are the group most likely to be affected adversely by climate change. Allied to this was a desire to address the systemic underrepresentation of women in both the arts and STEM industries.
The project was structured around a series of workshops designed to give a grounding in both environmental issues and in the relationship between the arts and ecology.
Workshop leaders included Kehkashan Basu (Canadian environmental and human rights activist); Lucy Brookfield (Wyre Rivers Trust); Anna Clayton (FoodFutures); Jay Hampton (Citizen Sci-Artist).
This led to an online festival of participants’ individual outputs based on their learning, in the form of film, audio and visual art, reaching an audience of over 27,000.
400 SECONDS PER PODCAST
Producer
400 Seconds Per Podcast was launched alongside Theatre in the Rough’s 400 Parts Per Million project.
For each episode, participants interviewed extraordinary women from around the world leading hope and change in the Climate Emergency.
Each episode was precisely 400 seconds long — designed to be a compact and easily digestible listening experience. It was available from any provider, but pushed mainly through Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
The roster was diverse and deliberately global — as the Climate Crisis is an international issue of localized circumstances.
Guests included:
- Marinel Ubaldo (Country Coordinator, Philippines, UN COY16)
- Beth Collier (Founder, Wild in the City)
- Jemima Hartshorn (Founder, Mums for Lungs)
- Ella Daish (Founder, End Period Plastic Campaign)
- Maria Westerbos (Founder, Plastic Soup Foundation)
- Sarah Harmer (Canadian musician and activist)
- Tessa Clarke (Co-founder & CEO, OLIO)
- Lorna Rees (Artistic Director, Gobbledegook Theatre)
- Gillian Burke (Biologist, Writer, Presenter BBC Springwatch)
- Tenderfoot Theatre (Eco-theatre company)
- Alana Hurd (Founder, Wildscaping Worldwide)
- Fay Milton (Co-founder, Music Declares Emergency)
- Melinda Kramer (Co-founder & Director, Women’s Earth Alliance)
COASTLANDS
Producer
In 2015, Theatre in the Rough commissioned six unique audio documentaries that tell diverse tales of the Sefton coast. They were created by young people from across Greater Merseyside, and show Sefton to be a profoundly cultural borough.
Inspired by the Danish and German genre of Radiomontage, these combine documentary with original and subjective creative writing, soundscapes and editing techniques. It is a great opportunity for audiences to hear work in a genre virtually unknown in the UK.
Partners included Merseyrail, Sefton MBC, Liverpool John Moores University and Ainsdale National Nature Reserve.
As well as being released online in weekly instalments, the documentaries also toured as an audio installation to Southport, Lydiate, and Waterloo.
Supported by Arts Council England and The Hemby Trust.
BACK TO THE FUTURE
Theatre in the Rough | The Atkinson
LUSITANIA: WAR AT THE MOUTH OF THE MERSEY
Theatre in the Rough
LIVERPOOL AND THE TITANIC FESTIVAL
Theatre in the Rough
HERITAGE ON THE DOCK
Royal Albert Dock Liverpool
BACK TO THE FUTURE
Producer | Director
In 2014, Theatre in the Rough and The Atkinson commissioned five short films about the changing experience of childhood and young people’s perspectives on ageing.
The project focused on the cultural interpretation of the lives of elderly residents of the borough of Sefton.
Working in association with Age Concern Liverpool & Sefton, five writers took part in reminiscence sessions that explored the history of childhood with those who lived it. These were funny, touching, sad, but most of all, inspiring, as people’s lives and stories were generously shared.
This resulted in a series of original short films that, as well as being available here, will also be shown in rep on screens around The Atkinson in Southport.
Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and The PH Holt Foundation.
Dates:
2014 — 2015
Produced by:
Theatre in the Rough Festival
The Atkinson/Sefton MBC
Project Website:
theatreintherough.com
LUSITANIA: WAR AT THE MOUTH OF THE MERSEY
Producer
In 2014, Theatre in the Rough commissioned two series of original audio plays charting Liverpool’s relationship with the Lusitania. Created in association with Merseyside Maritime Museum.
This project explored the idea that, during the Great War, Liverpool’s frontline was not on the Western Front, but at the mouth of the Mersey. From her officers and crewmen to their mothers and sons, few were left untouched by the Lusitania’s sinking in this most pelagic of cities, where the music of the river was scored into every home.
The first series of plays toured the North West in a bespoke audio installation, The Soundhouse, throughout 2014/15.
The second series of plays were created to accompany Merseyside Maritime Museum’s major new exhibition, Lusitania: life, loss, legacy, and reanimate some of its artefacts.
Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
LIVERPOOL AND THE TITANIC FESTIVAL
Producer
2012 marked the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic — a liner with an enduring relationship to its home port of Liverpool.
From the headquarters of its owners, to the homes of its musicians, the memory of the Titanic is part of the memory of the city itself.
The Theatre in the Rough Festival presented a 5-day cultural festival of theatre, live music, art, authors’ talks and an historical exhibition, all created locally, to commemorate the anniversary.
The event took particular interest in the Titanic’s relationship to the borough of Sefton, and was situated within walking distance of many of the ship’s crew, not to mention its captain and owners.
The festival included seven stage plays and seven audio plays, created by young people through workshops with Merseyside Maritime Museum. All were published as an anthology.
It took place at Old Christ Church, Waterloo, from 3 — 7 July, 2012.
Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Arts Council England and the Unity Theatre Trust.
HERITAGE ON THE DOCK
Producer
Royal Albert Dock Liverpool’s annual Heritage on the Dock festival celebrated the unique heritage of Royal Albert Dock and Liverpool’s world famous waterfront.
I programmed and delivered events with capital partners such as National Museums Liverpool, Tate Liverpool and Lancashire Wildlife Trust, as well as with a range of local community organisations.
Royal Albert Dock Liverpool is the largest collection of Grade I-listed buildings in the UK, and the country’s most visited tourist attraction outside London.
THE HERITAGE TRAIL AT LIVERPOOL ONE
Liverpool ONE
THE HERITAGE TRAIL AT LIVERPOOL ONE
Programming
Liverpool ONE is the largest open-air shopping centre in the UK, and was one of the biggest city centre regeneration projects in Europe.
I was approached to scope live arts programming to take place around the Liverpool ONE estate to animate the launch of a new heritage trail around the site.
GROUND
Theatre in the Rough
400 PARTS PER MILLION
Theatre in the Rough
400 SECONDS PER PODCAST
Theatre in the Rough
GROUND
Producer
GROUND is an artistic exploration of Climate Anxiety.
But we’re not talking doom and gloom. We’re talking coffee, cake and creativity.
A team of ten climate-conscious artists joined Theatre in the Rough on a journey of hope. To explore their climate concerns. And create new work in collaboration with the non-human world.
Working with Zero Carbon Liverpool and the Climate Psychology Alliance, Theatre in the Rough produced a series of Climate Cafés and eco-arts workshops.
The project resulted in a new film installation shown at The Atkinson in Southport in spring 2023, alongside a publication of participants’ original work distributed to all secondary schools in the borough of Sefton.
Funded by the Liverpool ONE Greener Futures Fund.
400 PARTS PER MILLION
Producer | Co-Director
400 Parts Per Million was a global, digital-first festival of environmental citizenship.
It was a female-led project, predicated on exploring women’s experience of the Climate Crisis through a concatenation of the arts and sciences.
Its focus emerged principally from the fact that, globally, women are the group most likely to be affected adversely by climate change. Allied to this was a desire to address the systemic underrepresentation of women in both the arts and STEM industries.
The project was structured around a series of workshops designed to give a grounding in both environmental issues and in the relationship between the arts and ecology.
Workshop leaders included Kehkashan Basu (Canadian environmental and human rights activist); Lucy Brookfield (Wyre Rivers Trust); Anna Clayton (FoodFutures); Jay Hampton (Citizen Sci-Artist).
This led to an online festival of participants’ individual outputs based on their learning, in the form of film, audio and visual art, reaching an audience of over 27,000.
400 SECONDS PER PODCAST
Producer
400 Seconds Per Podcast was launched alongside Theatre in the Rough’s 400 Parts Per Million project.
For each episode, participants interviewed extraordinary women from around the world leading hope and change in the Climate Emergency.
Each episode was precisely 400 seconds long — designed to be a compact and easily digestible listening experience. It was available from any provider, but pushed mainly through Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
The roster was diverse and deliberately global — as the Climate Crisis is an international issue of localized circumstances.
Guests included:
- Marinel Ubaldo (Country Coordinator, Philippines, UN COY16)
- Beth Collier (Founder, Wild in the City)
- Jemima Hartshorn (Founder, Mums for Lungs)
- Ella Daish (Founder, End Period Plastic Campaign)
- Maria Westerbos (Founder, Plastic Soup Foundation)
- Sarah Harmer (Canadian musician and activist)
- Tessa Clarke (Co-founder & CEO, OLIO)
- Lorna Rees (Artistic Director, Gobbledegook Theatre)
- Gillian Burke (Biologist, Writer, Presenter BBC Springwatch)
- Tenderfoot Theatre (Eco-theatre company)
- Alana Hurd (Founder, Wildscaping Worldwide)
- Fay Milton (Co-founder, Music Declares Emergency)
- Melinda Kramer (Co-founder & Director, Women’s Earth Alliance)
COASTLANDS
Theatre in the Rough
BACK TO THE FUTURE
Theatre in the Rough | The Atkinson
LUSITANIA: WAR AT THE MOUTH OF THE MERSEY
Theatre in the Rough
COASTLANDS
Producer
In 2015, Theatre in the Rough commissioned six unique audio documentaries that tell diverse tales of the Sefton coast. They were created by young people from across Greater Merseyside, and show Sefton to be a profoundly cultural borough.
Inspired by the Danish and German genre of Radiomontage, these combine documentary with original and subjective creative writing, soundscapes and editing techniques. It is a great opportunity for audiences to hear work in a genre virtually unknown in the UK.
Partners included Merseyrail, Sefton MBC, Liverpool John Moores University and Ainsdale National Nature Reserve.
As well as being released online in weekly instalments, the documentaries also toured as an audio installation to Southport, Lydiate, and Waterloo.
Supported by Arts Council England and The Hemby Trust.
BACK TO THE FUTURE
Producer
In 2014, Theatre in the Rough and The Atkinson commissioned five short films about the changing experience of childhood and young people’s perspectives on ageing.
The project focused on the cultural interpretation of the lives of elderly residents of the borough of Sefton.
Working in association with Age Concern Liverpool & Sefton, five writers took part in reminiscence sessions that explored the history of childhood with those who lived it. These were funny, touching, sad, but most of all, inspiring, as people’s lives and stories were generously shared.
This resulted in a series of original short films that, as well as being available here, will also be shown in rep on screens around The Atkinson in Southport.
Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and The PH Holt Foundation.
Dates:
2014 — 2015
Produced by:
Theatre in the Rough Festival
The Atkinson/Sefton MBC
Project Website:
theatreintherough.com
LUSITANIA: WAR AT THE MOUTH OF THE MERSEY
Producer
In 2014, Theatre in the Rough commissioned two series of original audio plays charting Liverpool’s relationship with the Lusitania. Created in association with Merseyside Maritime Museum.
This project explored the idea that, during the Great War, Liverpool’s frontline was not on the Western Front, but at the mouth of the Mersey. From her officers and crewmen to their mothers and sons, few were left untouched by the Lusitania’s sinking in this most pelagic of cities, where the music of the river was scored into every home.
The first series of plays toured the North West in a bespoke audio installation, The Soundhouse, throughout 2014/15.
The second series of plays were created to accompany Merseyside Maritime Museum’s major new exhibition, Lusitania: life, loss, legacy, and reanimate some of its artefacts.
Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
LIVERPOOL AND THE TITANIC FESTIVAL
Theatre in the Rough
HERITAGE ON THE DOCK
Royal Albert Dock Liverpool
THE HERITAGE TRAIL AT LIVERPOOL ONE
Liverpool ONE
LIVERPOOL AND THE TITANIC FESTIVAL
Producer
2012 marked the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic — a liner with an enduring relationship to its home port of Liverpool.
From the headquarters of its owners, to the homes of its musicians, the memory of the Titanic is part of the memory of the city itself.
The Theatre in the Rough Festival presented a 5-day cultural festival of theatre, live music, art, authors’ talks and an historical exhibition, all created locally, to commemorate the anniversary.
The event took particular interest in the Titanic’s relationship to the borough of Sefton, and was situated within walking distance of many of the ship’s crew, not to mention its captain and owners.
The festival included seven stage plays and seven audio plays, created by young people through workshops with Merseyside Maritime Museum. All were published as an anthology.
It took place at Old Christ Church, Waterloo, from 3 — 7 July, 2012.
Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Arts Council England and the Unity Theatre Trust.
HERITAGE ON THE DOCK
Producer
Royal Albert Dock Liverpool’s annual Heritage on the Dock festival celebrated the unique heritage of Royal Albert Dock and Liverpool’s world famous waterfront.
I programmed and delivered events with capital partners such as National Museums Liverpool, Tate Liverpool and Lancashire Wildlife Trust, as well as with a range of local community organisations.
Royal Albert Dock Liverpool is the largest collection of Grade I-listed buildings in the UK, and the country’s most visited tourist attraction outside London.
THE HERITAGE TRAIL AT LIVERPOOL ONE
Programming
Liverpool ONE is the largest open-air shopping centre in the UK, and was one of the biggest city centre regeneration projects in Europe.
I was approached to scope live arts programming to take place around the Liverpool ONE estate to animate the launch of a new heritage trail around the site.