As an actor, I played leading roles in many regional theatres. Some favourites include Jill Rillington in Man of the Moment (Mercury Theatre, Colchester), Eustacia Vye in The Return Of The Native (The Swan, Worcester), Giny in Relatively Speaking Belgrade Theatre, Coventry).

^{Constance in She Stoops to Conquer}

I was in the original production of Lin Coghlan’s A Feeling in My Bones with Roy Williams, John Dower and Rosy Fordham, directed by Philip Osment at Theatre Centre, and was in Kali Theatre’s first production, Song for A Sanctuary by Rukhsana Ahmad, directed by Rita Wolf. Whilst at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme, I performed in one of Peter Cheeseman’s musical documentaries, The Dirty Hill.

On TV, I played characters in Coronation Street, Eastenders, Moveable Feasts, The Bill, The Big Battalions, The Paradise Club, Young Soul Rebels, and Doctors.

I was also a songwriter/ performer with The Hot Doris Band, a comedy feminist alternative cabaret group that performed nationally in any venue that would have them, including the Theatre Royal Stratford East’s celebrated Variety Nights, compered by Kate Williams and Barry Cryer. We made TV and radio appearances and somehow ended up on Bob Says Opportunity Knocks, where we won in the studio but lost the nationwide vote to a 9-year-old.

The Hot Doris Band were the opening act of ‘Before The Act’, a gala to support the fight against Section 28 at the Piccadilly Theatre, produced by Twentieth Century Vixens, which featured an extraordinary cast of performers including Judi Dench, The Pet Shop Boys, detailed here by Ian McKellen http://www.mckellen.com/stage/00564.htm We also performed at the Manchester Free Trade Hall on the night of the, now historic, Manchester March against Section 28 – a day and night of protest alongside acts such as Tom Robinson, Jimmy Somerville, Erasure and many more.  https://manchesterarchiveplus.wordpress.com/2018/08/22/never-going-underground-manchesters-resistance-to-section-28/