I am a multi slam winning spoken word artist. Great Northern Slam March 2016, Say Owt Anti-Slam 2016, Bristol Poetry Festival Slam 2016, Crewe Axis Slam 2017, BBC EdFringe Slam Finalist 2017 and the Word War Four Champion 2018 and Hammer and Tongue National finalist 2018.
I have performed at some of the leading spoken word nights across the UK including: Evidently (Manchester), Milk (Bristol), Find the Right Words (Leicester), Women of Words (Hull), Verbal Remedies (Leeds), Spoken Weird (Halifax).
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Delighted to have been commissioned by York Theatre Royal as one of twenty artists as part of their Green Shoots event.
The Ballad of Blea Wyke
by Hannah Davie with music by Jack Woods
The Ballad of Blea Wyke takes the traditional selkie myth and reworks it for the Yorkshire East Coast. Set against the dramatic landscape of Ravenscar, it reimagines the ancient story of the seal-people, placing it in a world not too far off from our own, where cliffs are crumbling and some people have never seen the sea, despite the rising water levels.
Three women. Three voices. The northern landscape.
Three stories open the world of the northern landscape in virtual reality, what it means to come from it, live in it and belong to it.
Creative Producer | Lucy Hammond
One to One Development - Judi Alston and Andy Campbell
Sound Designer | Mariana Lopez
Writer | Asma Elbadawi
Writer | Hannah Davies
Writer | Carmen Marcus
Production Assistant | Lucy Havelock
Monoliths will combine the soundscapes of real locations in the north with the stories of three northern women. Audiences will experience three artistically rendered environments based on real outdoor locations. Monologues will be delivered using spatially recorded voices. An exploration on how to meld the real audio soundscape of a location with 3D rendered environments, Monoliths aims to celebrate the stories of northern women.
Their stories and origins are tied to the landscape where they come from and have grown up. They are monoliths – standing stones – powerful and influential forces.
Delighted that our VR experience Monoliths will be premiering in Berlin @republica festival 8th-10th June! This is the projects first outing with more to come so watch this space…..
Northern Girls by Pilot Theatre
‘Frank, Fearless and funny’ - Charles Hutchinson
My piece ‘Pigeons’ directed by Júlia Levai, was performed as part of Northern Girls 2021. I was also writing tutor on the show, mentoring the debut writers in the York and Bridlington shows in 2021 and the Scarborough group in 2020.
Following the success of Northern Girls 2020, we travelled to three new locations in autumn for a series of captivating outdoor performances in York, Bridlington, and Redcar. We brought together an incredible team of professional and community writers to develop monologues that explore what it means to be a Northern Girl in 2021. This ambitious project spans three communities bringing together debut writers, professional writers and directors as well as schools and community venues.
Each performance is unique to the location and has been developed, written, and performed by women and girls with direct connections to these places. Each short piece represents the joys, frustrations, and complexities of northern female identity.
‘…no York shaper of words captures a sense, meaning and memory of place so movingly, so evocatively, and what a joy it was to see her back on a stage for Love Song To Spring.’ Charles Hutchinson
Love Song to Spring was one of twenty commissioned pieces by York Theatre Royal to reopen the theatre after the pandemic. I worked with friend and collaborator Jack Woods to create a piece of spoken word storytelling and song about 2020 themes of walking, loss and redemption. You can hear this piece here.
This was a visual arts and poetry installation commissioned by IDAS (Independent Domestic Abuse Service) and supported by Jones Meyers solicitors. I worked alongside visual artist Mim Robson to create a piece of poetry that sat at the centre of 100 pairs of decorated shoes - a homage to the 100 women who are killed by partners or ex-partners every year.
The words of the poem IN HER SHOES are made up from interview responses from survivors of domestic abuse.
I am one of the original cast and co-creators of The Great Gatsby adapted from the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This show was written and co-devised in an old pub in York. It went on to run at the Vaults Festival London, and then ran in the West End for seven years, becoming the UK’s longest running immersive show. It also transferred to Dublin, Belgium, Korea. It opens in New York in 2023.
Somewhere in a small Northern town a woman walks into her constituency office and asks for help. Somewhere in Westminster a woman prepares to stand up and address the House...
There are 650 seats in the House of Commons, of these 208 are held by women. Maiden Speeches is inspired by the challenges facing outspoken women everywhere. A new play about being bold, speaking out and not giving up.
This play is in development with York Theatre Royal and I am pleased to be working with actor/researcher Barbara Marten, director Eleanor Rhode and producer Tara Finney on this exciting and timely piece of new writing.
We launched the project in April at York Theatre Royal, and presented short extracts of our research and some early scripted pieces for audience feedback. We have recently secured Arts Council Funding for the next stages of the R&D.
