About Tim

Bio

Tim’s an emerging theatre-maker from Sheffield. He's queer, disabled, and happily mining them both for material.
He loves theatre, fantasy novels, and his favourite form of escapism, video games. He was raised Catholic so he's also got a weird obsession with religious iconography.
If pushed, Tim would describe himself as "eloquent, charismatic, and extremely modest".
His qualifications include an unused Master's degree in Chemistry, technical certification, and training in dramatherapy-adjacent clowning.
He uses personal and confessional writing to make the skeleton of a show, and adds movement, music, comedy, and live art elements as the muscle, organs, and skin.
As a trauma survivor, Tim values making himself, his collaborators, and his audiences feel cared for and supported. This lets him face difficult topics whilst keeping everyone safe. He really loves vulnerability and intimacy in performance.
He shares untold and misunderstood stories with audiences to inspire compassion for people that society doesn't really GET, like living on Death Row, or with depression or PTSD.
He’s been supported and mentored by Theatre Delicatessen Sheffield, Third Angel, and Forced Entertainment, as well as supported by Sheffield Theatres.



Highlights

Tim wrote and performed It's OK to be Naked for the University of Sheffield's Festival of the Mind 2020, in collaboration with academics and mental health professionals.
Tim was a member of the inaugural cohort of the writers' strand of Sheffield Theatres' Bank artist development scheme.
Tim co-produced the UnShut Festival of Experimental Performance 2019, with Charlotte Blackburn.
He wrote and performed a monologue, Quiet Power, along with other members of Sheffield Theatres' Bank writers' strand, for Paines Plough, as part of the Come to Where I Am project.
Tim was the Artistic Director of the Sheffield Local Theatre, a fringe theatre in Central Sheffield with a focus on programming emerging artists from the North.
Tim's first show, Apocalypse of the Mind, was supported by Arts Council England.



A photo of a man in a paper boiler suit, barefoot and stepping on a tube of blue paint, leaning forward in front of a canvas on which are written several reasons for being angry.