influences

A few months back, I was invited by Maddy Costa and the Dramaturg’s Network to speak on a panel about “Diaspora Dramaturgies”. I still don’t really know what that term means (and perhaps it’s …

The story of Something Ending, a song from A Million Tiny Glitches... Something Ending from A Million Tiny Glitches by Sleepdogs When my brother Mike died in 2012 he did so in a dramatic way very …

How being a musician affects scriptwriting and storytelling – The second in a series of short (ish) articles – WARNING: contains autobiography – 2. Craft work I've been thinking about a gig I went to …

How being a musician affects scriptwriting and storytelling – The first in a series of short (OK, short-ish) articles – 1. Story ghosts One of the amazing things about making digital music – …

So my play Babel's Cupid has just been announced as one of the three runners-up for the Yale Drama Series Prize 2021. Over the moon, me. Many thanks to judge Paula Vogel and Yale Drama Series, and …

The peeps at Watershed's Pervasive Media Studio invited me to do a lunchtime talk for them over summer. I've been banging on forever about how the theatre industry (and wider arts/creative worlds …

Last Saturday, I spent the day with our brilliant friend and collaborator Sharon Clark, and wor Tim, in the Residence space, for a day of peer mentoring / problem solving / critical reflection. I’ve …

Here's two interviews with me talking about making stuff and all that. The questions were from students at Bath Spa University. 1. Interview by Connor Sullivan on sound design and site-specific …

Now Is The Time To Say Nothing By Caroline Williams and Reem Karssli at Arnolfini, Mayfest 2018 Walking out into the May sunshine after seeing Now Is The Time To Say Nothing, I knew I was going to be …

It's late in Week 4 of our Sura Medura residency. If last week was all about beats, tunes and noise; then this week’s been all about orchestral composing, performance text and the sea. Also a whole …

Watch out. Absolute marathon, this one. Over the next few months I’m working as a dramaturg and writer alongside some great artists, as well as giving a few talks and workshops about sound design for …

This is part of a series of blogs about influences on Dark Land Light House. I was giving a lecture to a student group recently, and talked about the integrated interdisciplinary process of …

This is part of a series of blogs about influences on Dark Land Light House. Again, Alien is a big influence in terms of fear and psychological horror. As are HP Lovecraft’s paranoid stories of …

This is part of a series of blogs about influences on Dark Land Light House. [N.B. this posts includes a few minor spoilers about the Alien film series] DLLH is definitely existential science-fiction …

This is part of a series of blogs about influences on Dark Land Light House. For me and Tim, sound and music are often built into the foundation of our ideas. Tim’s already written about how …

We’re right on the brink of starting Dark Land Light House rehearsals now, and as everything’s starting to focus in on the detailed stuff, I thought it might be good to remind myself about the more …

With The Bullet And The Bass Trombone about to hit the Caravan showcase at Brighton Festival, we thought it might be interesting to dig out this blog interview we did before the first previews of the …