Experience

B & G Partners LLP

• United Kingdom
• Professional Training and Coaching
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director

  • Apr 2019 - Present

  London and Edinburgh We help people, nonprofits and businesses be more creative, clearer about their purpose and tell a better story about what they do. We are a company based in London and Edinburgh with partners from the US and UK. We run workshops, training, and provide coaching creative facilitation and consultancy services. Our recent clients include the Greater London Authority, Historic England, the Hawthornden Foundation, National Trust, British Council, Nesta, Artgym, Arts Connect, AXA, Hyperoptic, New… Show more We help people, nonprofits and businesses be more creative, clearer about their purpose and tell a better story about what they do. We are a company based in London and Edinburgh with partners from the US and UK. We run workshops, training, and provide coaching creative facilitation and consultancy services. Our recent clients include the Greater London Authority, Historic England, the Hawthornden Foundation, National Trust, British Council, Nesta, Artgym, Arts Connect, AXA, Hyperoptic, New Art Exchange, Mercury Theatre, Oxford City and Cherwell District Councils, A New Direction, Lincolnshire Music Hub, Ideas Test, Chatham Historic Dockyard, New Art Exchange in Nottingham, Rowan Alba in Scotland, Nanowrimo in the US, the Medway Cultural Education Partnership, Sound and Music, the Breteau Foundation, Bright Shadow, Pop Up Projects CIC, Pavilion Dance, Creative United and the Mayor of London’s Culture and Creative Industries Team. We have run online training workshops for over 2000 nonprofits and social enterprises in the networks of The Fore Trust, The Centre for the Advancement of Social Technology (CAST) and the charity leaders’ in the CO3 network in Northern Ireland in governance, evaluation, fundraising, corporate partnerships and succession planning. Our consultancy work includes strategic change, diversity, audience development, communications and governance for large and small organisations in culture, education and nonprofit sectors Show less



Artgym

• United Kingdom
• Professional Training and Coaching
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Expert Contributor

  • Sep 2018 - Present

  London, United Kingdom Expert contributor for storytelling and creativity on Artgym’s Advanced Diploma in Facilitating Creative Collaboration



Rosie Kay Dance Company

• Creative Collaborator - 5 SOLDIERS and ROMEO AND JULIET

  • Nov 2014 - Jun 2022

  National Tours Working as creative facilitator and dramaturg/ writer for Rosie Kay Dance Company on 5 SOLDIERS, a dance theatre show drawn from the experiences of young men and women in the British Army. The show has toured the UK many times and will tour the United States in 2019. I am also working on the company's new production of ROMEO AND JULIET which will premiere in the UK in 2021



Ministry of Stories

• United Kingdom
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder and Director

  • Nov 2010 - Apr 2019

  MoS is a writing centre for young people aged 8-18 in Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Islington. Our work is made possible by a team of volunteer writing mentors and we run free writing workshops in all forms of writing. I co-founded the organisation with Lucy Macnab and Nick Hornby, establishing it in Hoxton and opening it for business in November 2010 as a registered charity and limited company, fronted by the only shop to cater to the everyday needs of all imaginable kinds of monsters, Hoxton… Show more MoS is a writing centre for young people aged 8-18 in Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Islington. Our work is made possible by a team of volunteer writing mentors and we run free writing workshops in all forms of writing. I co-founded the organisation with Lucy Macnab and Nick Hornby, establishing it in Hoxton and opening it for business in November 2010 as a registered charity and limited company, fronted by the only shop to cater to the everyday needs of all imaginable kinds of monsters, Hoxton Street Monster Supplies. MoS is now in the process of development as a national organisation with plans to work in a variety of new sites in the UK. Show less



Coney and Kensington Palace

• Writer/ Editor

  • Dec 2012 - Jan 2013

  Kensington Palace Scripted the "Choose Your Own Adventure" game for the collaboration between Coney - the agency of adventure and play - and Kensington Palace. In this, players attempt to become a top courtier at the court of King George II though various room of the palace and using their own wit and skulduggery.



The Foundling Museum

• Four Lessons - Writer

  • Mar 2012 - Mar 2012

  London, United Kingdom Wrote the text for a modern interpretation of the four lessons taught to orphans at the Foundling Hospital in the 18th century (reading, writing, sewing and the catechism) for artist and Foundling Fellow, Yinka Shonibare's Back to Front Weekend



The International 24 Hour Book

• Producer

  • Feb 2012 - Mar 2012

  London Producing LEAP, a novel written and published as an e-book in 24 hours over one day (February 29, 2012) by four teams of professional writers in London, Kuala Lumpur, Vancouver and Delhi.



Spread The Word

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations

• Producer

  • Jun 2009 - Jul 2010

  London, United Kingdom Produced various events for writers including the London 24 Hour Book, directed the launch of TEN, (presentations by 10 Black and Asian poets published in an anthology of the same name) at the Tabernacle. Devised and led writers' workshops.



National Theatre Education Department

• Writer - Showbusiness

  • Jan 2010 - Apr 2010

  National Theatre, London Devised and wrote SHOWBUSINESS a game for the National Theatre Education Department and secondary school age students to introduce them to the perils and pitfalls of theatre production. Game players have to work as a team using a limited budget and their skills of management and persuasion to get their chosen production on, from appointing a creative team right through to press night.



Birmingham Repertory Theatre

• United Kingdom
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Director

  • Sep 2002 - Oct 2008

  Led the development, commissioning and programming of the theatre’s new writing The Door as Literary Manager and Associate Director and established it as a national space for new work.



Clore Leadership

• United Kingdom
• Professional Training and Coaching
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Clore Fellow

  • 2006 - 2008

  Birmingham/ London Clore Fellow 2006/07 with secondments to Tate Modern and Tate Britain and placements at Film London, Ikon Gallery and DCMS London 2012, EPNL course for Non-Profit Arts Leaders at Stanford University, California, research into new approaches to the development and production of writing with visits to Montreal and Italy.