At the beginning of this month, I presented a 20-minute piece of verbatim theatre at an academic workshop at the University of Konstanz in Germany. The workshop brought together six or so academics and myself around the theme "Revisiting Fugitivity." The piece I created is called Fugitive Translations exploring what I would make if I allowed ideas of fugitivity to inform my artistic choices. When I was invited to participate, I thought of the work of Ambrose Muyisiwa — poet,

A high point, if not the highpoint, of the first six months of this year was making a piece I called New Season for a charity, Morphe Arts, a network for artists who are Christians. It gave me the space to create something that was personal, not about my advocacy work, which was deeply satisfying. I performed it at the organisations National conference in May. New Season is part testimony, part physical performance, built around the idea of my personal "grace space", a metaph

It's July 2026 and I am starting a series of monthly reflections. I hope you enjoy them. It has been over a year since I left academia and returned to the arts industry. My career feels back to front and yet the right way up. It has been exciting as well as overwhelming. I was a freelancer for over 20 years before I became an academic so I am not a stranger to doing many different types of work at once — dramaturgy, teaching, performing, consultancy, research. What is new thi