October 2025

I haven't updated my website in a long time and there are plenty of good reasons. Lockdown brought a baby and lots of new adventures with him. I've obviously now found a new interest in children's theatre and introducing him to the thrill of live theatre. We've seen all the shows: Dear Santa, Tales from Acorn Woods, Bluey and the wonderful The Koala Who Could but the most exciting was when he came to see me in Alice in Wonderland. Such a joy to hear my own boy squealing with delight and amusement at the weird and wonderful characters.

The last 4 years have been about sharing my love for live theatre and watching my son sing and dance through every show he loves and perform his own puppet shows and dances! Hence the silence online. 

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I've continued to work and been lucky enough to have work that has been flexible enough to fit around my childcare needs and family who have been able to help when it's not been so flexible. But I've now had my first fallow year. Ever. 2025 has been a year of 'other' work - corporate and exam work; editing and proofing books and research. All work that I'm immensely grateful for and inspired by. No theatre, TV or radio, however. I'm not sure if this is set to continue into 2026 or if it's a blip. There is the consideration that I am entering the invisible woman age of my life. No longer an ingenue, nor the grandmother and so featured much less in classic theatre. Think of a play, any play, and count up the middle-aged women in it. You might find the odd one - Sheila's Island, which I was in recently, is one such play which features only middle-aged women (let's try to ignore that it was written as Neville's Island for four men) - but for the most part you will be hard-pressed to find those roles. So competition is much higher for these rare opportunities. 

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TV is certainly making strides in representation for older women; Sally Wainwright is doing a lot of the heavy lifting in this field. There is much to be celebrated in TV for the middle-aged woman. Let's hope that some of that translates to theatre too. 

December 2021

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Having had my Archers debut back in 2020, I was asked to come back again for a 2022 role. Again, just a small one but a couple of scenes this time. I'll have a recurring role by 2030...!

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I've also only just recovered from an incredibly intense 2 weeks at the Arena Theatre in Wolverhampton where I had the challenge of learning a brand new adaptation of an Edgar Allen Poe tale, The Black Cat, over just a week's rehearsal. It was a one hour, one woman piece which required all the memory skills I thought I'd lost to lockdown & new parenthood. Turns out, if you know you're going to be streamed to who knows where in a week's time, you will learn those lines whatever it takes. It was genuinely the hardest thing I've ever taken on. And I know that I say that for nearly every project but I like that each new thing is a challenge. And now I'm not scared of ever learning lines again.