COMMUNITY. CREATIVITY. CARE.

I am a creative and cultural producer, coach, consultant and writer with a specialism in community and socially engaged arts.

I am interested in finding the gaps: whose stories are not being told? Who is not being listened to? Which bodies are we not seeing? Why?

My practice is feminist and my feminism is intersectional.

My pronouns are she/her.

  • I work with individuals as coach / producer / dramaturg / collaborator

  • I work with communities as producer / facilitator / writer

  • I work with organisations as consultant / producer / project manager

I am interested in work and ways of working which centre care and which make that care legible. I believe that ethics inform aesthetics. I believe that the highest quality, most formally innovative work, which uplifts and inspires and creates joy and wonder and takes risks, can only be made in a process which centres those ethics and that care.

At its heart, my work is centred around cultural democracy and care as an aesthetic and creative practice.

If this is how you like to work, and would like to work with me, or have a chat, or a cuppa, get in touch.

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A picture of Lily, smiling, in front of a bright, colourful picture. She wears heavy framed glasses, has shoulder length hair and a fringe.

This is a picture of me. I am a born and bred Londoner with two primary school aged children. I am a school governor, I am a trustee of Brighton People’s Theatre. I like coffee and walking and cinnamon buns and dancing and going to the cinema and great theatre and gigs and seeing friends and laughing and art which makes me FEEL things. The usual stuff.

I am currently:

Working on a community arts commission for Toynbee Hall with Anne Langford * Completing a DYCP Grant on Creative Community Practice * Leading on the LTC (London Theatre Consortium) Workforce Development Programme * Coaching creative practitioners * Developing a new coaching course following the success of INSPIRE * Slowly developing two participatory and community shows

Me (in pink) with the cast, crew and creative team of The Curtain. (I was 9 months pregnant exactly on the first night when this photo was taken). Photograph: Helen Murray

Me (in pink) with the cast, crew and creative team of The Curtain. (I was 9 months pregnant exactly on the first night when this photo was taken). Photograph: Helen Murray