Artistic Director and co-founder of Despite the Monkey. He is a graduate of the Young Directors course at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and trained at LIPA. His credits as a director include: Liverpool’s Everyman and Playhouse theatres, LIPA, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the University of Cumbria. His credits as a director include: Crazy Gary’s Mobile Disco (Liverpool Everyman Studio), Conversations With Rats (Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Debris (Liverpool Playhouse Studio), Candide (Stanwix Theatre Carlisle) and It Doesn’t Matter (Sennheiser Studio Theatre).