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Alongside a wide-ranging freelance practice as director of theatre, opera and festivals, Philip is Artistic Director of Parrabbola, who make large scale community plays in the UK and across Europe, and Director of the York International Shakespeare Festival.
Current Shakespeare productions include Henry V [man and monarch], FEAST: a play in one cooking – exploring Shakespeare’s female characters, I Peaseblossom by Tim Crouch and touring productions of Twelfth Night, Macbeth and As You Like It.
Larger work has included a site specific, promenade performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Romeo and Juliet for the festival in Craiova, and Pericles and The Winter’s Tale in Gdansk and Ostrava as well as a site-specific cross-border production of The Winter’s Tale which travelled between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, Shake Fear | Break Walls, performed in Gdansk, was an exploration of borders real and imagined with artists from five European partners.
Philip’s production of Pericles Prince of Tyre premiered in 2024 at the Hungarian State Theatre Csiky Gergely in Timisoara and was selected for the National Theatre Festival in Romania. His most recent premiere was Codename Othello, a new play by the Ukrainian playwright Olga Annenko, which premiered in York and which travels to Ukraine in 2026. Other plans include new productions in Romania and Georgia, as well as the UK.
I have taught on theoretical and practical modules in theatre and performance at Cumbria College of Art and Design (now University of Cumbria), Doncaster College, Hull College, Lewis and Clark College Portland Oregon (US) and for the Foundation for International Education.
I have also been a guest lecturer and keynote speaker on a range of subjects from Contemporary Opera to European Shakespeare.
At UoG, I teach and direct the Classical Theatre modules, which focus on the work of Shakespeare, as well as modules on applied theatre practice.
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