Hello!
I've been a professional designer and illustrator for over ten years, predominately in the children's education/games sector. I currently work as a Graphic Designer for a Norwich Marketing Agency.
I went to DeMontfort University to study Graphic Design and illustration in 2006. During this time I really focused on personal storytelling and narrative art forms, mostly in embarrassing autobiographical/diary comics. After completing my degree, a couple of years working in schools I got a position as a game designer and illustrator at Orchard Toys Ltd where I worked for over nine years. Games and jigsaws that I have designed, developed and illustrated have won a number of awards in the toy industry. I have also illustrated for numerous companies on a variety of projects and campaigns’s, most recently for Hidden Hearing Ltd, UEA Training Hospital, The East End Women’s Museum, Children’s entertainment company Wiley Wolf and Tiberius Books; Tiberius and the Christmas Party and Tiberius and the Mischievous Squirrel.
I often volunteer my time and skills to creating graphics, posters and illustrations for local theatre charities as it’s a combination of my two favourite things. Design and Performing Arts.
Roles have included: Jolene in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (CSODs); Louise in Ghost (Sound Ideas); Dora Bailey in Singing in the Rain (Sound Ideas); Shirley in Priscilla: Queen of the Desert (Sound Ideas); Chiffon in Little Shop of Horrors (Sound Ideas); Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd (Sound Ideas); The Bakers Wife (Sound Ideas); Little Becky Two-shoes in Urinetown (Sound Ideas); Kate Monster in Avenue Q (Threshold Theatre Co); Girl #2 in I Love you, you’re perfect. Now Change! (Mixed Voice); Oolie/Donna in City of Angels (Threshold Theatre Co); Julia Sullivan in The Wedding Singer (Threshold Theatre Co); Girl #1 in Rent (Mixed Voice) New Employee in 9 to 5 the Musical (Threshold Theatre Co); Liz in Billy Liar (Westacre Theatre Co); Kit Kat Dancer in Cabaret (Westacre Theatre Co); Urchin in Little Shop of Horrors (Westacre Theatre Co); Jewel in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Westacre Theatre Co).
I have also sung in a wide variety of concerts/singing appearances and choirs, most memorably being the self-produced bar show Songs in the Wrong Order (Sound Ideas) and This is a Concert (Sound Ideas).
I am a proud co-founder a of the multi-award winning Sound Ideas Theatre Company, the new-works focused Open Door Theatre Company and the Pockthorpe Players.
My directing credits include the sell-out Alan Ayckbourn play ‘Taking Steps’ (CSODs) at Sheringham Little Theatre, which won Best Play in 2020. A Chorus Line (Threshold Theatre Co) which was nominated for best musical in 2022 and self-produced and directed Yippee-Ki-Yay The Musical Parody for the Die Hard Fans (Open Door Theatre) opened to sell-out Norwich audiences in 2023. For 2024 I Co-directed an open-air production of Wind in the Willows (Echo Youth Theatre) and the play ‘On Monday Next’ (Pockthorpe Players) as a charity fundraiser for Norwich Puppet Theatre.
