I have spent the last 21 years working as a street performer, writer, puppeteer and technician since I got bored testing parts for core reactors on nuclear submarines in my home town of Barrow-in-Furness.

Since then I have worked for a number of leading companies including The Theatre Royal Haymarket, Sydney Opera house, Spitting Image, Blaize, Welfare State International, Walk The Plank, Cirque de Soleil, Whitewood and Flemming as well as a freelance artist on countless festivals and site specific projects.

I was the festival director of Street Arts 2000 the millennium celebrations for Barrow-in-Furness, and I’m also a founder member and company director of Promenade Promotions (www.prom-prom.com) having 21 seasons performing with The Pierrotters (Britain’s last remaining seaside Pierrot Troupe)

I have spent a large part of the last 10 years waggling dollies in a hot and sweaty booth with the popular double act Poppets Puppets, but my biggest claim to fame is busking my way across America and back in just three months with one accordion and two tunes.