I am a Lecturer in Human Geography at Newcastle University. My work engages the intersection of performance and politics, with interests in testimony, witnessing, subaltern urbanisms and precarious labour. I have a long history in political theatre, having curated several main stage productions (City of Dreams, Counter Mapping, Do You See What I Mean?). I also co-wrote and co-produced Nanay, a site-specific testimonial theatre project engendering public debate about Canada’s Live-In Caregiver Program. This work premiered at Vancouver’s PuSh Festival (2009), and went on to tour to Berlin’s HAU1 Theatre (2009), Edinburgh (2012), Whitehorse (2015), and Metro Manila (2013; 2015). With Geraldine Pratt, I've recently finished working on a new theatre project with Tlingit and Filipino theatre artists in the city of Whitehorse. This piece revolves around a game of bingo wherein audience members participate as bingo players and potential storytellers. The playfulness of the event provides an occasion for serious play around shared histories of dispossession, structural racism, and to complicate the relationship between First Nation communities and Filipino migrants in the Canadian North.
Research Interests
Performance and politics
Testimony, witnessing and theatre
Subaltern urbanism and adivasi resistance
Migration, labour and global care
Posts
Lecturer in Human Geography 2017 -
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
Newcastle University
Lecturer in Human Geography
 2013 - 2016
Institute of Geography
University of Edinburgh
Education
Ph.D. University of British Columbia 2010
MA UBC, Geography 2006
BA UBC, Geography 2004
Current Service
Steering committee member of the Glasgow, Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network
Editor for Creative Interventions in Studies for Social Justice
Editorial board member for Environment and Planning D: Society and Space