I curated and facilitated a panel discussion on queering audio storytelling for Oorzaken Festival 2025, with guests Nicole Kelly and Randy Vermeulen – I cannot recommend listening to both their work enough. We looked at storytelling through a queer lens, what it can look like to ‘queer’ audio, making ‘queer normative’ audio and how to […]
I worked as Sound Designer for a 4 part series by The Europeans: Who Does It Best? The series looked at which European countries had policies that actually made our lives better, focussing on Housing, Childcare and Drugs. The Europeans has a really playful sound design style, so I had a lot of fun matching […]
New Year New You?! Sign up to safe + sound’s 12 week Short Form Audio course starting Monday 12th January 2026! Are you an early career audio producer? Someone working in audio looking to push yourself creatively? Someone with editing knowledge from a different craft – musician / sound designer / mix engineer / drag […]
Heard: All About Trans – 2023 – presentI facilitate interactions for All About Trans: a project run by Heard. All About Trans brings together media professionals with a network of trans people for informal, off the record interactions intended as a safe learning space to improve trans representation in the mainstream media. In the Dark […]
I co-wrote, edited and performed a 2 hour show – Drag Brunch – with fellow audio producer and drag performer Brid Addison-Child at XMTR festival in September 2025. You can read a review of the show here (it starts about halfway down the article). Drag Brunch weaves live performance with interview recordings and archival material, […]
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