Hi I’m Stephen (he/they).

I direct, make and produce theatre. I also do dramaturgy, access consultation and facilitation. In 2022, I won the Royal Theatrical Support Trust Sir Peter Hall Director’s Award. From 2024 to 2025 I was Artistic Lead for Vital Xposure.

My practice involves making collaborative work, new work and leading interdisciplinary/academic collaborations. I’m drawn to work which challenges standard narratives and spotlights alternate perspectives. This has frequently been from a disabled and/or neurodivergent perspective which I believe can reframe how we understand health, work and the body.

I welcome enquiries about directing, producing, and dramaturgy/script-reading.

2025

Vital Xposure produces Offie winning …blackbird hour at the BUSH.

Associate Director on 25th anniversary revival of 4.48 Psychosis.

2024

Vital Xposure begins research partnership with Central School of Speech and Drama.

National tour of Surfacing - Offie Finalist.

Interdisciplinary Fellow with Royal Shakespeare Company and Oxford University TORCH.

National tour of That’s Not My Name.

2023

Surfacing at VAULT Festival.

It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure at VAULT Festival, Soho Theatre and Edinburgh Fringe.

How do I say I’m scared at East 15.

The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man at Nottingham Playhouse, Blackpool Grand and Belgrade Coventry.

2022

Who Plays Who at London Liberty Festival.

Barbican Open Lab Artist.

Staff Director on Our Generation.

Assistant Director on The Darkest Part of the Night.

2021

Resident Director on Witness for the Prosecution.

Artist Development at Half Moon Theatre.

2020

Resident Assistant Director at Chichester Festival Theatre.

2019

Offie Nominated Little Echoes at The Hope.

Assistant Director on Cost of Living, Andrea Chénier and One Under.

2018

European Theatre Convention Resident Director.

Young Vic Springboard.