IMMERSIVE PROJECTS (2025 - 1997)
Projects where I initiated the concept are shown in blue
Not included: multiple workshops at conservatoire / university level
INCLUDED:
Large-scale immersive shows in fully controlled spaces
Stage performances when highly interactive such as audience-responsive storytelling
Immersive shows embedded within real environments, such as cars, working hotels, council offices
Immersive cabaret nights and club performance
2025
Storehouse : Sage & Jester : Performer (Caretaker)
Hedda Gabler : Deadweight : Performer (Hedda) : In a London flat
The Seagull : an immersive reading experience : R&D
Bad Fruit 17 is Bad Luck : Curation at Jamboree : Artistic Director & Death Compère
2024
The Manikins : Deadweight : Performer (Dr Ligotti & Beatrix)
The History of the Kiss : Lecture : Miss Ellaneous Cabaret Performance
Still Night Milan : Italian version : Director & Performer (Technician/Horse)
Still Night Bataville : New French version : Director & Performer (Technician/Horse)
Bad Fruit Friday 13th Bad Luck : Curation at Jamboree : Artistic Director
2023
(full year with Complicité)
Auntea : Houghton Festival : Three-day experience with Jody Williams (Performer / Original Deviser)
The Table : Rose Bruford : Full production devised immersive show : Kantor module (Director/Writer)
2022
The Golden Key : Coney : Director/Creator of the part of the festival in The Ned Hotel (Commission)
Auntea : Houghton Festival
2021
Partnerplay : Experiments in audio playable erotica : R&D : Writer
RSC Digital Sandbox : R&D : Participating Artist
Bad Fruit Christmas : Curation at Chat’s Palace : Artistic Director
2020
University of O : A course in the History of the Kiss : Creator & Writer : online : uofo.uk
Oddvent : Creator & Curator : online
The Third Day : Punchdrunk : Performer & Deviser : online film adaptation of Live Event
2019
The Twelfth Night : Curtain Hotel, Shoreditch : Event in Hotel Rooms, Bar & other spaces : Creator & Director
Bad Fruit Christmas : Curation at Chat’s Palace : Artistic Director
How to Train your Dragon : Gideon Reeling : Hidden World Immersive Experience : Performer (Viking)
Good Omens : Gideon Reeling : Party : Performer
2018
Still Night Artegna & Still Night Pergine : Director & Performer (Technician/Horse)
An Execution (by invitation only) : CPT : Director & Creator
Immersive Design Summit : Speaker
Alice in Wonderland Party : Gideon Reeling : Performer
Changeling : RADA : Directed & Devised with 18 MA graduates
2017
Kingdom Come : RSC : Director & Writer : throughout The Other Place, including main stage
Remote : Coney : Deviser & Performer : Interactive audience-responsive performance
V&A Summer Arts Party : Jubba : Director of interactive Party Performance
2016
Monument Waterloo : Wiretapper : Performer & Contributing Writer
The Boy who Climbed out of his Face : Shunt : Co-Director & Performer
(& co-artistic director for all Shunt projects)
2015
Silverpoint : Punchdrunk : Devising Performer
Monument Trafalgar Square : Wiretapper : Performer & Contributing Writer
2014
Still Night Athens : Bios : Greek version : Director & Performer (Lecturer/Marco)
2013
Still Night Kochi : Residency at Kochi Museum of Art : Japanese version : Director & Performer (Lecturer/Marco)
Still Night Yokohama : Forest Fringe Festival : Director & Performer (Lecturer/Marco)
2012
The Architects : Shunt : Co-Director & Performer
Still Night Brisbane : Residency : Director & Performer (Lecturer/Marco)
2011
Money : Shunt : Co-Creator & Performer : 2009-11
Where the Wild Things Sleep : BAC One-On-One Festival : Writer & Performer (Max)
2010
The Shunt Lounge : Co-Curator
The Piano in the Long Corridor : at The Shunt Lounge : Artist
Kathy and Lina : at The Shunt Lounge : Director
The Bridge : at The Shunt Lounge : Installation with Artist Tom Duggan
Festival of Live Portraiture with Vivi Tellas : The Shunt Lounge : Producer
2009
The Shunt Lounge : Co-Curator
Pinocchio : A car show : Dublin Festival : Award nomination : Director & Performer
Pinocchio : A car show : Tel Aviv Festival : Director & Performer
2008
Rompecabezas (Puzzle) : Buenos Aires Fashion Week : Immersive Runway show : Director of Performance
The Shunt Lounge : Co-Curator
2007
La Otra Gente Buenos Aires : Live Portraits within real environments : National Portrait Gallery collaboration
Pinocchio : A car show : Aurora Nova : Edinburgh Festival : Director & Performer
2006
Amato Saltone starring Kittens and Wade : Shunt : with National Theatre : Co-Creator & Performer : 2005-6
2005
La Otra Gente Marbella : Live Portraits within real environments
Tropicana : Shunt : Co-Creator & Performer : with National Theatre : 2004-5
2004
(preparation of the Shunt Vaults)
2003
Pinocchio : Dalston : Director & Performer
Dance Bear Dance : Shunt : remount and six month run
2002
Dance Bear Dance : Shunt : Time Out Award & Empty Space Award
2001
The Ballad of Bobby Francois : Shunt : The London Mime Festival : Co-Creator & Performer
Invitation to a Beheading : at Shunt : Director : Time Out Critic’s Choice
The Art of Escape : The People Show : Site-specific free-roaming performance throughout The People Show studios : shooting a film with audience performing as ‘actors’ : Performer (The Director)
2000
The Tennis Show : Shunt : The Bargehouse : Co-Creator & Performer
The Ballad of Bobby Francois : Shunt : also at The Pleasance Edinburgh : Total Theatre Award & Herald Angel : Co-Creator & Performer
The Tempest : Signal to Noise : Edinburgh Festival : the audience chose the venue and we turned up and did it, mostly in people’s homes : site-specific with a new site for each performance : Performer (Miranda, Stephano, Sebastian)
Sightings : Shunt : Croydon Clocktower full building immersive during public hours : Director
The Boat Show : The People Show : Site-specific free-roaming performance throughout HMS Wellington : Performer (The Stowaway)
1999
Twist : Edinburgh Festival & BAC : Early explorations of shunt’s clown-immersive style
1998
Student at Central School of Speech and Drama on MATP course
1997
Incarnate : Passion on the streets of Edinburgh : Nominated for Guardian Student Drama Award