Lisa is an Arts Education Practitioner based in Manchester. She has worked on a range of partnership projects with organisations including Community Arts North West, Theatre Hullabaloo, Connecting Youth Cultures and the NSPCC. She was awarded an MA with distinction in Applied Theatre from York St John University. Lisa is also an Engagement Officer and Facilitator for Proper Job Theatre Company, delivering the LAB Employability and LAB Wellbeing courses to adults in some of Manchesters hardest to reach communities.

Her practice focuses on health and wellbeing, often using theatre as a tool for intervention, learning and development. Lisa advocates theatre can be a ‘rehearsal for life’, this led to her first collaboration with All Ways Making as a Creative Critics Lead Artist in connection with Manchester International Festival 2019. She has gone onto deliver Creative Critics again, this time online with young people in partnership with The Prince’s Trust.

Lisa was also the Project Team Lead Creative Practitioner when supporting the development of AWM’s European Parliament-commissioned teaching resource. Most recently Lisa completed the Thirdspace Foundations of Coaching course, she used her learning to facilitate AWM’s CPD programme which focuses on the use of arts and cultural education in school improvement in the East Midlands.