I am currently chief creative and content officer at Wales Millennium Centre responsible for our creative strategy, programme and work with artists, communities and young people.  I try to make space for people to tell their stories and find their creative voice, inviting them to fire their imaginations in a creative home for everyone.

Since joining Wales Millennium Centre as artistic director in 2014, I have reshaped the arts centre as a producer as well as a presenter of work. Productions have included City of the Unexpected for Roald Dahl’s centenary with National Theatre Wales, the Festival of Voice (Llais), The Boy with Two Hearts and most recently Nye with the National Theatre starring Michael Sheen.

I have prioritised the development and adoption of new models of participation with young people and communities and we are currently repurposing spaces on our site to create new studios run by young people for young people.

I am interested in exploring stories and making work using immersive technology and we are designing a new building which will support this and provide a new production hub for our work and for Wales.

Prior to moving to Wales, I was executive producer responsible for the design and delivery of the artistic programme of the first UK City of Culture in Derry-Londonderry where I managed large scale events and projects including The Return of Colmcille with Frank Cottrell Boyce and Walk the Plank and the Turner Prize outside of England for the first time in its history.

In 2006 I became director of Ireland’s largest arts festival, Belfast Festival at Queen's, and later became head of culture and arts at Queens's University with additional responsibility for a cinema and gallery. I was programmer of the inaugural Belfast Film Festival and the first recipient of Northern Ireland's Arts Individual of the Year award.