Dawn has worked for Bamboozle Theatre Company for 20 years. During this time she has performed in our touring shows, and for 5 years led on Bamboozle’s 19+ project for young adults who might be described as having PMLD. More recently Dawn has led on a broad range of other family projects, including summer residencies at Curve, Sensory Garden and Bamboozle Backyard. Dawn has also delivered on a number of education projects and she is a member of our senior training team.

Beginning her career as a performer Dawn toured extensively around the country for 10 years.  In the early ‘90’s she was a regular visitor to the Thames TV ‘Rainbow’ household when she moved in next door to Zippy George and Bungle. Dawn then developed a further love of working with children when she worked at Polka Theatre in London after her own children were born.

As well as her work with Bamboozle, Dawn has led on a variety of projects with other arts organisations/theatres over the years; including Leicester Haymarket Theatre, Spark Children’s Arts, Attenborough Arts (Sensory Atelier) Leicester Museum Services, Warwick Arts Centre and Nottingham University. Last year she developed a series of creative workshops with survivors of domestic abuse.  This collaborative research project with Juno Women’s Aid culminated in a series of animations challenging the narrative that sits around domestic abuse.

Dawn is a qualified Independent Care Act Advocate and in 2016 she established ‘Different Drum Advocacy through the arts’; a group of disabled adults who meet  to explore and express creatively the things in life that matter to them.

Dawn embeds the Bamboozle Approach into all the work that she does and finds it to be the key that unlocks; enabling people to say and do much more than they think they ever could.