I am a performer, theatre-maker, and facilitator, and founder of TSDOU - The School of Dramatic Unlearning. I work with a fervent, fabulous belief that theatre and play allow us to become our fullest selves. Now into the third year of my motherhood, I believe this even more.

I have just ‘graduated’ as a Giggle Doctor for Theodora Children’s Charity, working in children’s hospitals and wards across the UK. My name is Dr Famous and you may almost recognise me.

I am currently undertaking my professional Focusing training with Marta Fabregat, exploring how the practice of Focusing can enhance and inspire our creative lives.

As a writer & performer, projects include outdoor, interactive, site-responsive character comedy, Frankie Foxstone a.k.a. The Profit (most recent performances in November 2024 at Croydonites Festival); MUMMY (first performed in 2016, still touring from time to time); and I’ve a new show brewing about … tantrums.

As a dramaturg, I work with theatre makers to incite new challenges and excavate the stories they need to tell in magnetic and often ridiculous forms. Most recently I have supported Eloina Haines, Daniella Finch, Rosina Aichner, Britt Plummer, Lena Natus & Gerry Carroll in their show making.

I was co-founder and was co-artistic director of Spain-based bilingual theatre company Teatro Entre Escombros from 2010-‘14, creating The Mole and the Worm and FUGA as well as projects commissioned for specific events and festivals. We toured the country performing in a riotous array of venues from castles and caves to an abandoned school and a former pigsty. Showbusiness.

I have been a core member of Clowns Without Borders UK since 2016, as a deviser and performer of shows, and a project manager and workshop facilitator. I have visited refugee camps and communities in London, Athens, Istanbul, Hungary and Bangladesh, collaborating there with PLAN International, BRAC and ICCO. (For a video press here.)

As a facilitator I offer workshops in a variety of fields, including Improvisation, Comedy, Clown, Devising, Movement and Site-Specific Theatre. I collaborated with The Mono Box since their beginnings in 2014 until their recent closure, also curating their European Theatre Week in 2016 and the Mono Makers online programme in the pandemic. I have taught at Drama Schools across London and am now collaborating variously with ISTA.

I have facilitated for Nimble Fish, building on platforms to foster creativity in schools - for teachers and students - and with professionals in a range of fields inspired to integrate a more creative approach to their practice.

When I was a Training Facilitator for Theatre for a Change I delivered training projects with VSO in Rwanda (January 2018, press here for video) and with Oxfam in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in July 2016.  

I trained for two years at the Ecole Internationale du Philippe Gaulier following a degree in English Literature at Cambridge University. I have undertaken shorter trainings with VAMOS Theatre, Peta Lily, SITI Company, Song of the Goat, Complicite, Told by an Idiot, Ecole Jacques LeCoq, Cardboard Citizens and Kneehigh. 

I have a diploma in Therapeutic Skills from the Society of Analytical Psychology and in Focusing from the British Focusing Association, both trainings which continue to inspire my reflective and playful approach.

I have worked with various international artists, including:

Lena Natus & Myra Eetgerink, Britt Plummer, Rosina Aichner, Lucy Hopkins, Aitor Basauri, William Oldroyd, Trygve Wakenshaw, Javier Ariza, Annie Castledine, Jenny Lee, Sophie Larsmon, Jaime Mears, Jesus Cristobal, Steve Ryan and Katharine Markwick.