THEATREMAKER

STAG KING, UK Touring - Solo Theatremaker

2020 - 2023 

Stag King is an OHP performance lecture / drag show featuring the Ancient Celtic god of the hunt. The Stag King is a disembodied vibrational being who manifests through the medium of drag. Developed with support from Haley McGee, Shut Up and King, and supported by The Rosemary Branch Theatre and Camden People’s Theatre, programmed by Bristol Pride and as part of CPT's More Than Human Festival.

The Dirty Thirty, The London Neo-Futurists - Ensemble Theatremaker

2020 - PRESENT

With long-established sister companies in Chicago, New York and San-Francisco, the London Neo-Futurists bring fast paced, gamified,  non-fiction theatre to London and the UK with their flagship show The Dirty Thirty. 

PERFORMANCE ART

Ketty La Rocca’s In Principio Erat Verbum, 9 Cork St., London - Group Performance

8th July 2022 

One of a group of performers engaged to present Ketty La Rocca’s silent performance piece ‘In the beginning was the word.’ A game for 10 performers, challenged  to create a spontaneous method of non-linguistic communication. Presented by Amanda Wilkinson Gallery and Performance Exchange as part of FRIEZE London. 

La MaMa LOVE Cabaret, New York - Digital Drag Performance

23rd June 2021 

Ishmael Gaze featured digitally as an international drag artist in a live bill hosted by Sasha Velour, featuring Jasmine Rice LaBeija, Justin Vivian Bond and  The Illustrious Pearl  in a ‘celebra[tion] of intersectional queerness.’

Shed Space, Cultureworks East, Latitude Festival, UK - Interactive Performance 

July 2014

Commissioned to deliver my concept for the brief “an interactive family event that can take place in 4x6” shed.” Self Help Guide for Grown Ups was a pop-up publishing house established  to circulate a new wave of self help books authored by a younger generation.

TRAINING

Guildford College and Guildford School of Acting - Foundation Degree Small-Scale Theatre Practice 

2007 - 2009

Awarded a Distinction for producing workshops and performances, including making and touring an original piece of theatre.