After 3 years of development, writer Christopher Hogg and director Hyun Ju Baek, launched Flatmates V Zombies II in 2016. Producers Richard Shannon (London) and Eui Won Jung (Seoul) were also on board and successfully secured Arts Council funding for the musical’s development.

My short film When You’re Ready is now available to watch online.

The website was designed by the very talented Yani Joseph who helped me get this up and running in just a couple of weeks!

I’m so happy that I’m able to finally share this with everyone! Enjoy.

This year was A HUGE year for my sister, Idil Sukan, and her production company Draw HQ.

I’ve worked with my sister for the last 5 years, meeting a lot of people and producing photography and artwork for their productions. We produced her first exhibition This Comedian. It was great to see my sister’s work all in one place – which helped to appreciate the huge amount of work she’s done, how talented she is and the incredible portfolio she has.

This was her debut exhibition of the last ten years of her work in photography and art direction. It was on at the Embassy Tea Gallery in Southwark and from  19 February – 8 March. You can see her work and buy a print here.

We also produced a live comedy show in the lead up to the exhibition at the Duchess Theatre in Covent Garden. The line up included Sara Pascoe, Katherine Ryan, James Acaster, Robin Ince, Arthur Darvill (Doctor Who) and MC Michael Legge.

Other events included talks about the representation of women in comedy and photography in association with Big Blonde Salon and Soho House.

Overall the exhibition was a huge success and it has now been taken up to the Edinburgh Festival this year, exhibiting at the Abatoir.

– Above: the core Draw HQ production team were women and we wrapped the exhibition on International Women’s day. 

During panto season 2014 I worked with actor/director/writer Jennifer Sarah Dean to musically direct and create sound effects for the original panto play Pantopantoland. 

It was quite a tight rehearsal schedule and the cast only had one day to learn 12 songs! But they were brilliant and rose up to the challenge, performing the entire panto just four days later.

– Above Pantopantoland being performed. They took an audience member up on stage to be the King which happened to be my partner Mark!

After the panto season, Jen had been asked to direct a short play as part of the 5 minute festival at the Lost Theatre in Stockwell. The play South Australia by Kenneth Emson incorporated the sea shanty song of the same name. Jen asked me to musically arrange the sea shanty for three voices and also perform in the play.

The cast included Brian Mackay, Eleonora Gorini and Victoria Gilbert, and we got through to the final of the festival and got to perform it a second time the following day which was really enjoyable. Although we didn’t win the festival, we all loved being able to perform it a second time.

– Above performing South Australia at the Lost Theatre 5 minute festival.

I first worked with Jen in the musical Flatmates V. Zombies (2013).

2014 was a record breaking year for me in terms of travel.  It was the year that I took most airplane flights in my life (13 in total…sorry environment… I did up my recycling a lot more last year to make up for it…), and I visited Thailand for the first time which was the furtherest distance I’ve been from home. In August and September I travelled to Menorca for the first time, and then re-visited Madrid, Bodrum and Istanbul to be with family.

Also due to the nature of my job, I travelled around London a lot. I was constantly discovering new areas and was reminded how enormous the city actually is.

I hope I continue to discover my city and new cities this year too!

Click on the links to see my flickr sets of my travels or scroll below for a selection of my favourite moments in 2014:

Working for the London Turkish Film Festival I photographed the pre-festival party at Dalston Roof Park with klezmer band She’Koyokh and screening of Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul, and the open-air screening of The Butterfly’s Dream (d.Yılmaz Erdoğan) in Gillett Square.

Check out my Flickr sets for more photos of the pre-festival party and of the open air screening.