As a theatre practitioner, I have directed, produced, written, and devised over 20 productions.
I specialise in creating and researching pieces of historical theatre and public engagement events for museums, universities, cathedrals, libraries, churches and community groups. I have worked with bodies as diverse as Manchester Cathedral, Chetham’s Library, the Royal College of Physicians and Swansea Waterfront Museum. I have also done work as an academic theatre consultant.
I am an experienced workshop leader, and have run medieval drama, mask and Shakespeare workshops at national folk and storytelling festivals.
Contact me at daisy-removethis@daisyblack.uk (delete the obvious!) for more information.
Sample Past Projects
November to December 2022; 2023; 2024; 2025: ‘Dark Tales for Winter‘ at the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton. Each year, I work as a dramaturg and researcher for Dark Tales for Winter at the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton, which stages Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories each winter.
March-April 2020: ‘The Modern Decameron.’ In the first few weeks of pandemic lockdown, I organised The Modern Decameron: an online storytelling festival hosted on YouTube and Facebook and based on Boccaccio’s Decameron. Eighty-three professional and amateur storytellers around the world recorded 120 tales: https://www.youtube.com/@amoderndecamerontendaysahu8731
August 2016: Week of workshops on medieval mystery plays at HeyDays English Country Dance and Music Week, California.
March 2016: ‘The Alchemist’s Daughter’, Royal College of Physicians, London. Performed as part of their exhibition ‘Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee’.
2014-2015: ‘The Manchester Cathedral Monologues’ I was commissioned to research, devise and direct a series of six historical monologues based on characters from the history of Manchester Cathedral to be performed as part of the Cathedral’s arts programme.
February 2016: ‘Coventry’s Medieval Drama’ workshop at the Inter-Varsity Folk Dance Festival, University of Warwick.
2015-2016: Academic advisor to director Philip Breen for the 2016 York Mystery Plays.
September 2015: Workshop on ‘Playwriting from Images’ for the University of Hull’s Sixth Form Festival of Writing.
July 2015: ‘Storytelling with Masks’ workshop at storytelling festival Festival at the Edge, Much Wenlock.
April 2015: Monologue for Chetham’s Library’s project ‘Decoding Dr Dee’.
Sept 2014-Aug 2015: Researched, devised and directed a series of six historical monologues based on the history of Manchester Cathedral to be performed as part of the Cathedral’s arts programme.
March 2014: Wrote and directed ‘Passion Tree’: a modern version of the medieval Cornish plays for Manchester Histories Festival.