Opera
As librettist
TAY
Youth opera (comp. Marco Galvani)
London Youth Opera, 2026
The Relatives: Videoconference of a Crimean Family 1912-2025
Documentary opera (comp. Sergej Newski)
Workshopped CBSO Centre, Birmingham for future performances with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, 2026
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Chamber opera (comp. Yuri Umemoto)
Co-commission with Munich Biennale 2026, Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, KLANG Festival Kopenhagen
Who is Molly Leigh?
Community opera (comp. Francesca Le Lohé)
B Arts in Stoke-on-Trent (R&D in 2024, full performances in 2025)
Also co-director
From Tulip, to Orchid (With Love)
Micro opera (comp. Michael Taplin)
Birmingham Opera Company, 2024
Belladonna
Improvised opera
Commissioned by FAWN Chamber Creative, workshopped at Kensington Town Hall, Toronto (dir. Amanda Smith), 2018, and in Array Music, Toronto (dir. Eris Thomas), 2024
Bermondsey, 1983
Documentary opera (comp. Bob Allan)
First developed and performed with an Open Spaces Residency at Snape Maltings (2019), subsequently performed by Forensis Music Theatre at Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival, 2023
"Both Sides are…"
Micro opera (comp. Kevin Dorvil)
Creative Juices Protest!, Royal Northern College of Music, 2021
HEARD
Choral drama(comp. Anna Semple)
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 2020
"You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of [...]"
Opera scene (comp. Andrew Leggett)
California State University, 2020
Little England
Chamber opera(comp. Mark Bowler)
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 2020
SEEN
Opera scene(comp. Anna Semple)
Cambridge Opera Workshop, 2019/2020
Western Motel
Opera scene (comp. Geoffrey King)
Royal Academy of Music, Opera Development workshop, 2019
Sole
Youth opera (comp. Fraz Ireland)
Manchester Contemporary Youth Opera, 2019
Last Thursday
Chamber opera (comp. Lewis Coenen-rowe)
Collisions Festival, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, 2019
Also co-director
A Father Is Looking For His Daughter
Multi-media opera(comp. Alex Mills)
rough-for-opera #7, Cockpit Theatre, 2019
A Seductive Event
Micro opera(comp. Mark Bowler)
Wigmore Hall, Guildhall School of Music and Drama Voiceworks Project, 2018
Reel Woman
Chamber opera(comp. Pedro Lima)
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Milton Court Studio Theatre, 2018
twelve steps
Opera scene(comp. Pedro Lima)
Goodenough College, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 2018
Musical Theatre
As bookwriter and lyricist
Theo in Between
Musical comedy (comp. and co-lyricist. Jordan Li-Smith)
Commissioned by British Youth Music Theatre, workshopped at Leeds Conservatoire with Leeds Piano Trail, and ArtsEd, London, before performances at Leeds Carriageworks Theatre, 2025
Concert Work
As librettist / lyricist
Songs of Reginald Blythe
Voice, piano and narrator (various composers)
Japan tour, 2026
Also director
You Should (Should!) Be Dancing!
Pre-recorded voice & ensemble (comp. Pedro Lima)
Remix Ensemble, Casa da Música, Porto, 2025
money & yes
Voices, piano & percussion (comp. Alex Tay)
EXAUDI and GBSR Duo, Wigmore Hall, 2025
An Interview with a Puppet and His Maker
Voices & ensemble (comp. Alex Tay)
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 2021
Three Questions from a Lover to a Saint
Pre-recorded voice & solo percussionist (comp. Pedro Lima)
Estudios Coreograficos para um Percussionista, 2020
Recorded and released on ‘Talkin(g) (A)bout My Generation’ album, 2024
Cantata Superba
Cantata for voice & ensemble (comp. Geoffrey King)
Royal Academy of Music, Duke’s Hall, 2019
Talkin(g) (A)bout My Generation
Pre-recorded voice & ensemble (comp. Pedro Lima)
Remix Ensemble, Casa da Música, Porto, 2019
Recorded and released on eponymous album, 2024
Terry Helenson’s Revolutionary Dreams
Voices & ensemble (comp. Bob Allan)
Commissioned and performed by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in Trier, Germany, and Birmingham, UK, 2018
Recorded and released on BCMG’s ‘Marx.Music’ album, 2019
Songs, Duets & Choral Work
As librettist / lyricist
Winters Distant
Voice & piano (comp. Owain Park)
Rebecca Lee’s New Winter Songbook project, 2025
A boat
Unaccompanied voices (comp. Michael Taplin)
electro//acoustic day, Cambridge Festival, 2025
Melancholy (and Buttercream)
Duet with piano (comp. Kerensa Briggs)
Helen Charlston’s The Isolation Songbook project, 2020
Promise, Promise, Promise?
Unaccompanied voices (comp. Mark Bowler)
EXAUDI, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 2019
DUG
Voice & ensemble (comp. Christian Drew)
Wigmore Hall, GSMD Voiceworks Project, 2018
A View Towards A Necessary & Timely Adjustment To Society To Be Considered With The Utmost Seriousness & Sincerity
Duet with ensemble (comp. Geoffrey King)
Royal Academy of Music, 2018
Theatre
As writer / adaptor
Song of Rona Island
Noh theatre / Scottish folk cross-cultural performance
Performed at the Noh Reimagined Festival, King’s Place (prod. Akiko Yanigasawa), 2025
Also dramaturg
The Siblings Who Made a Game of Death
Short play
Longlisted for Bill Cashmore Award 2025
A Tale of the Sumida River
Storytelling monologue
Performed Aldeburgh Festival and Noh Reimagined Festival, King’s Place (prod. Akiko Yanigasawa), 2024
Also dramaturg
An Inventory of Me
Durational performance
The Lowry, Shoots: Off-Piste workshop, 2019
Also director
Heart is where the home is
Monologue
Director’s Cut Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, 2019
Theatre Translation
Beauty and the Beast
One act LGBTQ+ tragicomedy
First developed with Foreign Affairs Theatre Translator Mentorship, showcased at Jermyn Street Theatre and developed further at Udderbelly Scratch Night (dir. Shogo Amo), 2025. Currently in further development.
DRAMAtical Murder
Japanese language 2.5D musical
Translated subtitles (Japanese to English) for Nelke Planning, 2024
Director
Pelléas et Mélisande
Chamber opera (comp. Debussy arr. Peter Brook and Marius Constant)
Opera-on-the-Move at The Playground Theatre, 2019
Party Animals
Comic pasticcio (comp. Mozart, arr. Benjamin Tassie)
_REMIX at Gunnersbury Park Museum, 2019
“Scenes”
Opera scenes (various composers inc. Britten, Puccini, Verdi)
Royal Academy Opera, 2018
Also contributing writer
Anthems for Queer Youth
Voice, video & ensemble (comp. Bob Allan)
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 2018
Also dramaturg and translator
Film & Media
HASHIMA XR
XR project
Lead Writer / Narrative Designer
Historical research and heritage exploration project, 2023-2024
The Unrepentant
Feature horror
Screenwriter
In development with producers Nick Hampson, Nicolas Levene and Toby Louie (of Fairvale Entertainment) and Katie Langridge (of Rascal House Productions Ltd.)
No Room. No Room. No Room.
Short
Writer / Director
OperaHarmony, operavision.eu, 2020
a coat (a prototype)
360-video
Director / Editor
Bridging Realities: Opera meets VR Lab workshop, Banff Centre for the Arts, 2018
Quartet
Short
Writer / Director
Development commission from Random Acts North, First Acts scheme, 2017
Subsequently creened online by Channel 4, and at Playback Festival, Institute of Contemporary Arts, 2018