Education & Participation Work

• Founder member of the National Association of Youth Theatres NAYT
• Initiated and ran 4th year B Ed. course for Sheffield City Polytechnic – Drama & Theatre in Education its relevance to the Junior School curriculum.
• Set up and ran "Theatre Arts" community access course for Sheffield City Polytechnic.
• Lecturer (part-time) Theatre Arts Course Sheffield University.
• Advisory Panel member, Sheffield Education Authority , Tertiary Education
• Sheffield Education Authroity Arts Exchange – panel member
• Set up and ran Writer in Residence programme, Sheffield City Polytechnic and Crucible Theatre Sheffield
• Set up and ran Writer in Residence programme, Sherman Theatre Cardiff and BBC Radio Wales
• Directed a programme of training for School Governors, Sheffield Education Authority & Manchester Education Authority
• Directed a series of ‘Baker Days’ training for Sheffield teachers on "Theatre for Young People"
• Founded and directed Tyne Wear Youth Theatre Festival – Britain’s largest Annual Youth Theatre Festival.
• Set up and directed "Eyes of Men Theatre Company", theatre company for the unemployed, Newcastle upon Tyne
• Set up and directed South Tyneside Youth Theatre
• Set up and directed "P.I.T.S", a community theatre for South Tyneside
• National Festival of Youth Theatres – workshop leader
• Actors Centre London – Visiting Lecturer.
• Set up and directed "South Tyneside Youth Theatres" ( 8 years)
• Various in-service training courses for Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, South Tyneside, Cleveland, North Tynsides, Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley and South Glamorgan Education Authority
• Visiting Lecturer – Newcastle University, Newcastle Polytechnic, Sheffield University, Sheffield Polytechnic, University of Glamorgan, Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff University.
• Set up and ran Drama and the Curriculum for teachers in Special Needs – 10 week course for Northumberland Education Authority
• Devised an anti-Racist policy for Sheffield Theatres
• Directed ‘Wijkfeest’ Gronigen, Holland - 3 week Community Arts Festival.
• Directed Summer Festival Workshop seasons for:
  Swan Theatre, Worcester
  Palace Theatre, Redditch
  Young Vic Theatre, London
  Royal National Theatre
  Drama Association of Wales
  Ty Newydd, Wales New Writing Centre
• Directed UNDERMILK WOOD by Dylan Thomas, Tisch School of Performing Arts, New York
• Regular teaching at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
• Set up MA in Youth Theatre Studies, University of Glamorgan
• Directed THE LARAMIE PROJECT at Royal Wels College of Music and Drama
• Directed TWELFTH NIGHT at the Accademy of Live and Recorded Arts ALRA London
• Directed NOYYES FLUDDE at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
• Directed UNDERMILK WOOD
  Graduate Production, Acedemy of Live and Recorded Arts London
• The Actors Lab Workshop
  Working with professional actors, Everyman Theatre Cheltenham
• Created and taught MUSIC IN THEATRE course for Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama06/07/08
• Directed Drama Association of Wales Summer School 2008 on Verbatum Theatre
• Deliverd training programme for Education Dept, Courtyard Theatre, Hereford 2008
• Workshops for NAYT Summer Festival 08
• Workshops for NAYT Workshop weekend. Management training 08
• Workshops for New Writing Festival Pembrokeshire 2008