I'm a multi-skilled actor/singer/ comedy/ movement performer guitar/ ukulele player, song writer, writer, diverse performer and have many more skills as well as all want to learn lots more new skills.
I have graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with a Bachelor of Arts in Drama. Whilst studying I have also been training in Acting, Singing, Dance and training for my LAMDA Examinations at Carney Academy Sheffield, run by West End and Broadway Director Ruth Carney-Nash.
I made my professional theatre debut in The Pied Piper at The Unity Theatre Liverpool, where I played The Pied Piper and multiple roles in an ensemble of four actors directed by Nina Hajiyianni. A play devised by the actors with writer Kevin Dyer.
I'm about to start work on two plays at Carney Academy, The Lights by Howard Korder and Eight by Ella Hickson both directed by Drama Practitioner Ellie Tillotson. I'm also working and writing my own one man solo play.
Now I'm working with Ellie on a professional performance for kids to perform in school and do workshop with kids to get them into story telling and telling the story's.
Last summer I was part of "The Sheffield Mysteries" rep play on the Crucible mean stage at Sheffield Theatres, where I was cast and directed by Artistic Director Daniel Evans.
After which I went to study in Oxford at The North Wall Art Center on Residency outreach summer project. Training, Researching, developing and performing in a brilliant new professional play called Fragment by John Hoggarth and directed by Ria Parry from Iron Shoes Productions, working along side Oliviero Papi from Au Brana Cultural Center and Dom Lawton Productions. With Dom we looked at a new form of theatre called Gig theatre
Before returning back to Carney Academy for summer schools 2014, where I played Link Larkin in a workshop performance of Hairspray Directed Ruth Carney-Nash and choreographed by West End choreographer Richard Roe, as well training on the Audition Preparation' course and 'Create Your Own Method' workshops both led by Professional Actress Samantha Robinson. Followed by a Television acting workshop with Ian Smith with Ideas Tap at the Sheffield Theatres.
While at Carney Academy I took a television/film acting course taught by screen writer and director by Dina Jacobsen. As a result of this course I was cast in my first professional short film. It is an installation piece called Bastion directed Ray Jacobs.
For my role in Bastion I won Best Actor at at Breaking Down Barriers film festivals in Russia.
The film has just been shown at the Sprout Film Festival in New York this summer and won First Prize at the Meeting Rimini Film Festival as well as lot other great Festival round the world.
I've working on four short student films and filmed for a day with the BBC for a TV/documentary.