Creative & Performance Practice

My creative work in theatre and performance is not separate from my community and educational practice—it is foundational to it.

I come to facilitation through long experience as a director, actor, and performance-maker. That work trained me to listen closely, read rooms, attend to timing and pacing, and understand how bodies, language, and emotion move together in shared space. These skills continue to shape how I design learning environments and hold groups.

I understand performance not only as something staged, but as a way of being present: noticing attention, honoring silence, working with rhythm, and creating conditions where people feel safe enough to speak. Whether directing a scene, facilitating a circle, or guiding a workshop, I draw on the same practices of listening, responsiveness, and care.

My creative practice includes directing and acting in theatre, writing across scholarly and creative forms, and developing performance-based projects that explore memory, loss, learning, and collective experience. I am especially interested in work that treats storytelling as a shared act rather than a finished product.

Selected projects and writing reflect this ongoing inquiry—into how performance can support reflection, connection, and meaning-making in everyday life.

Selected Areas of Practice

• Theatre directing and ensemble-based work

• Acting and performance grounded in presence and listening

• Performance writing and reflective text

• Story-based and performance-informed learning projects

For me, creative practice is a way of paying attention—to people, to language, and to what emerges when we gather.