Back in the day I used to do a lot of sound and lighting for student theatre. I did a lot in Oxford, and went up to Edinburgh a number of times to do the Edinburgh Fringe. I did not go to Oxford University, but I did hang around with a lot of people who did. Once or twice I contributed to a theatre column in a student paper. It’s a bit thespy because it’s okay to experiment with language when you’re young. Reprinted here because why not.

During my time as a student (and during my time as a human) I’ve done a fair bit of lighting design and teching for student theatre. Here is a list of shows I have worked on.

2010

**Bent **(Lighting Designer; O’Reilly, Oxford)

**Paradise Lost **(Lighting Designer; O’Reilly, Oxford)

**The Blue Room **(Lighting Designer; O’Reilly, Oxford)

2009

**Captain Improv **ICE

**Much Ado About Nothing **(Lighting Designer; O’Reilly, Oxford)

**The Tempest **(Lighting Designer; Moser, Oxford)

**The Truth **(Lighting Designer & Op; OFS, Oxford)

I like instruments and have somewhat of a menagerie. Here are some of the less embarrassing inmates.

Squeezeboxes

Here is a Castagnari Lilly. It’s a small, single-voice D/G melodeon. Because of its size and the fact it has one reed per note, the reeds are mounted directly on the board rather than in a reed-block. It sounds a bit like a concertina. The buttons are much smaller than a normal melodeon so it’s easier to play fiddly things.