I have been a qualified BSL Interpreter for sixteen years and during that time I have worked across many domains: Legal, Medical, Engineering, Community, Arts, Education, Conference as well as travelling nationally and internationally.
Since 2016 I have been specialising in Performance and Media based interpreting with a focus on working within Contemporary Arts and Media, Music gigs, Contemporary Theatre and Festival interpreting. Within this role I work as both a performance interpreter for deaf and hearing audiences, but also as an interpreter for deaf and hearing artists/cast/crew behind the scenes.
Below is a selection of my Performance based Interpreting over the past few years both freelance and with the fabulous company Performance Interpreting.
Festivals: British Summer Time – Hyde Park, Download Festival, Wilderness Festival, Womad, WOW festival, Unlimited Festival, Reading Festival, St Patrick’s Day Parade,
Gigs: Pink, Gwen Stefani, Fatboy Slim, Underworld, Christine and the Queens, Confidence Man, Evanescence, Florence and the Machine, Placebo, You, Me at Six, Sam Tompkins, Lorde, Korn/Limp Bizkit, Melanie Martinez, Ariana Grande, Woman’s Hour Band
Theatre: Roundhouse, Southbank, Royal Festival Hall
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