Between 1969 and 1994 I performed in at least one production every year (except 1986 and 87).
My interests as a performer ranged from an early Shakespearean weightiness, through the deliberate gestural language of Gothic melodrama, to the physical theatre choreographies of the modern avant garde. I discovered in 1993 that I have a minor c-curve in my spine, and shifted my role in theatre off the stage and into the office.
Between 1994 and 1998 I ran Arts Centres for Local Authorities. I was both the community artist (incl. Four Quarters Production Co.) and the arbiter of excellence in this role, developing small theatre spaces into specialist homes of new theatre, whilst encouraging the local battle of the bands downstairs, nurturing new writers and visual artists, whilst serving the needs of the local amateur dramatic societies. I organised and ran festivals, set up and ran a successful club night for the local dance scene, and started creating websites - in 1995.
Tired of the bureacracy of local government, and the punishing hours of venue management, I made a move toward academia in 1998, completing my PhD in late 2003, and was appointed as a Lecturer in the Information Systems Institute, University of Salford, in January 2004.
Since the founding of the Company in 1996, and from 1998 my only, and to-date most successful involvement in the arts, I have been Chairman of Kaos Theatre UK Ltd, and oversaw its growth from its first, short, small-scale tour, to become one of the select mid-scale companies regarded as a 'national priority', directly funded by the Arts Council of England, and frequently sent overseas by the British Council as an exemplar of British Theatre. In the Spring of 2008 Kaos, amongst 90 odd other companies, fell to the axe of the Arts Council's night of the long knives, and ceased all theatre activity.
In the Autumn of 2008 I joined the board of Horse and Bamboo Theatre Company, and, in October 2009, became Chairman.
