Resistenze e MetabolizzazioniIn June 2026, as part of my Masters in Contemporary Physical Performance Making, I took part in TЯA's artist residency in Melpignano, Puglia. Over the course of a month, I lived and worked within the town, allowing its people, rhythms, and everyday encounters to shape my practice. Rather than arriving with a fixed project, I responded to the place as it unfolded, creating responses that explored memory, absence, belonging, and the ways we carry one another through moments of change.

I am an actor, writer and theatre-maker (RADA BA Hons Acting graduate) and Co-founder and Artistic Director of the award-winning refugee arts charity, Compass Collective.The company supports the integration of young refugees and asylum seekers through high quality creative projects. My main focus has been developing a trauma-informed methodology based on co-creation, and transcultural collaboration - that recognising the cultural heritage and transitioning identities of the young people. My current research lies in decentering a western and Eurocentric modes of making within our spaces, opening space for multiple cultural dramaturgies, storytelling traditions and embodied ways of knowing to shape the creative process.Compass now supports over 1000 young sanctuary seekers, and is recognised as an important organisation bridging the arts and refugee sectors, linking major cultural institutions with displaced communities. We have collaborated with the Shakespeare’s Globe, Barbican, Leeds Playhouse, Midlands Arts Centre, Southwark Playhouse, Arcola Theatre, BAFTA, Somerset House, TATE, to name a few. We have reached an audience of over 500,000 people, including MP’s, local councillors and change-makers. They’ve performed at conferences seen by delegates from the Government and Home Office with the aim to inform policy change.I've led our international portfolio of work, with arts project across Sweden, Denmark and Iraqi Kurdistan.As an actor, I am represented by Eamonn Bedford Agency. Acting credits include: Alys Always at the (Bridge Theatre) dir Nicolas Hytner, Macbeth (Chichester Festival Theatre), Film: Prizefighters (Camelot Films) and for TV: Doc Martin (ITV), Bloodmoon (HBO), Doctors (BBC).Also an avid writer, I completed the RADA Advances into Playwriting course in 2023 and the Pentabus National Writers Group in 2024. My play ‘Over Mum’s Dead Body’ was shortlisted for the prestigious Papatango Playwriting Prize.This residency marks a shift in my practice and in how I understand community-based theatre-making. Through my work with Compass Collective, I have spent years developing collaborative processes rooted in participation and co-creation. Here, I am interested in moving beyond the idea of community as something we engage or facilitate, towards a practice grounded in encounter, reciprocity and listening. Rather than arriving with a methodology to apply, I explore what it means to enter into the intelligence of a place, to recognise that every community already holds its own histories, artistic languages and ways of making meaning. My research asks how performance can emerge from these encounters - where the artist is not simply making work with or for a community, but allowing myself to be transformed through the relationship. I see this as a practice of decentring authorship, embracing uncertainty, and creating the conditions for artistic exchange in which multiple performativities and socialities can coexist without hierarchy.

I spent a day with two brothers looking for a stone.