2025: a full year of being an artist at all times.

This project has been so beneficial for my practice. I have been more connected to my own artistry and goals, and more reflective than ever before.

It has taken me ten years to get back to where I was at eighteen. Obsessed with hybrid shows that told stories with passion and dynamic stage presence. Frantic Assembly is still top of my bucket list. The kind of work that I make can't be easily categorised and that is a good thing, even if it might make the road a little trickier at times.

I am going to keep telling nuanced narratives about the beautiful part of the world that has raised me and inspired me. There is limitless opportunity, and I am the right person to push this work forward. Staying in the Cotswolds has been a good choice, even though theatre is very London-centric.

I am a multi-faceted theatre maker. I direct and choreograph and write and will turn my hand to just about anything that forges a connection in shared space. This is good too. I saw a wide range of exciting shows, reminding me that I have a specific taste and that I'm allowed to pursue things that I like.

If you like physical theatre, Shakespearean levels of sincerity, Miranda sitcom, contemporary classical music, or any combination of the above, we might be good creative partners. Let's have a chat.

I'm so glad I started this challenge.

I'm drawn back to Week 17 of the blog. I'd just come out of rehearsals for Have You Met Stan, and I did some development on an idea for a play. I then hop over to June where I was writing, and attending a conference, and I felt like this was actually a career. Over the year, I've developed and refined at least five full production concepts. Some of them got me interviews, and even jobs. Even the concepts that stayed at EOI stage helped me build this skill, an essential skill.

Above all, this challenge has helped me to own my identity as an artist. One of best pieces of advice I ever received was from Kate Golledge (idol to many), who said to drop "aspiring" from descriptions of self. Since then, I referred to myself as a director, even when I didn't always believe it, or felt a bit fraudulent saying it. However, in 2025 I've felt more confident to repeatedly call myself an artist, in no small part because I made sure that was true every day. I do genuinely think that energy also had a positive impact on the big career moves I made this year.

I don't know whether I will keep updating the blog with such regularity. I don't know whether future updates will focus on other subjects. I do know that I will continue to make art regularly. Always An Artist.


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