About

From my first time on stage, aged eleven, in Britten’s The Little Sweep (Let’s Make an Opera) I wanted to perform. Throughout my school years I did as much as I could; Shakespeare, more Britten, Joan Littlewood and Beckett (Footfalls: ‘If you hadn’t been in it, I’d have left.’ Dad.) I was also writing, though I kept this to myself.
  I joined Manchester Youth Theatre at sixteen. There, I had my first experience of creating work and also, of being funny. A seed was sown. From the start, I’ve been exploring the range of what being a performer might mean; choreography assignments at college using voice, movement and text; dance improvisation with Katy Duck and Group O in Florence; performing moody solo songs to a backing tape made by Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves).
     A few years later, I did my first five minutes stand up and met Doon Mackichan. Not wanting to wait for the next acting job, we joined forces to form Rabbitt & Doon, performing alongside Jo Brand, Jenny Eclair, Jeremy Hardy, Paul Merton, Eddie Izzard and others, and surviving Malcolm Hardy’s infamous Tunnel Club. We also made fifty epiosodes of Wake Up London for LWT. 
   This resourcefulness has served me well. When the Savoy Theatre inconveniently burnt down before my West End debut in Thark opposite Griff Rhys Jones, I wrote instead, and began working with choreographer, Lea Anderson. When, as a new mum, my high-flying agent was declared bankrupt, I wrote while my son slept, winning a competition with Alomo Productions. This led to the BBC choosing to produce my sitcom from Alomo’s stable of offerings. And when the pandemic prevented my ‘triumphant’ return to performing at The Edinburgh Festival, I made Bookshelf Ballad with my now grown-up son, Finn Rabbitt Dove: ‘a beautiful hypnotic film…a small but perfectly formed love letter to life and literature.’ **** The Scotsman.

I grew up in Worsley, Manchester, and have lived in London since coming to Goldsmiths to study Dance & Art. More recently, I completed an MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, graduating with Distinction. My fiction has been longlisted for competitions including, The Irish Novel Fair, The Exeter Novel Prize, Mslexia and Fish Publishing. Bookshelf Ballad, the poem, was published in the anthology, The Unpredicted Spring. Lockdown Poetry, 2020. I also work as a freelance role-player, facilitator, coach and mentor in a wide range of sectors, including pharmaceutical, law, financial services, the NHS, and schools & charities.

I sing mezzo soprano with several chamber choirs, including Borough, Concordia, Myriad and Bulgarian choir, Veda Slovena.

In a nutshell, I’m a writer and performer with experience in many disciplines and am up for all of it, separately, and in combination.