My Projects

Photo from “Mary: A Gig Theatre Show”. Credit: Carla Watson

I sometimes work as freelance sound designer and composer.

Theatre

• Mary: A Gig Theatre Show: Sound Designer
  • Bedlam Theatre (January 2024)
  • Edinburgh Fringe (August 2024)
  • Traverse Theatre (December 2024)
  • Duns Play Fest (May 2025)
• 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee: Edinburgh Fringe (August 2024)

Music

• Ethics Town Podcast: Theme Composer

I currently co-run Catalyze Impact’s incubation program for new AI Safety organisations. This includes recruitment, selection, program design, logistics, and participant support.

I make heavy use of my software engineering skills to automate repetitive tasks, and I make amazing spreadsheets.

I taught sessions on AI Agents, Adversarial Attacks and AI Safety strategy and organised social events, such as a Welcome Event, Murder Mystery, Lightning Talks, and a Scottish Ceilidh.

As a student, and for a little bit after, I took part in many productions as production manager, producer, technician, and actor.

Shows marked * took place in the Bedlam Theatre

Festivals

• Paradok Platform - Fringe Director - August 2024 (Just the Tonic during the Edinburgh Fringe)
• Bedlam Festival - Festival Director and Co-Programmer - January 2024 *
• Paradok Platform - Fringe Coordinator - August 2023 (Just the Tonic during the Edinburgh Fringe)
• Bedlam Festival - IT Manager - January 2023 *
• Give it a Go Week - Venue Manager - January 2023 *
• Paradok Platform - Treasurer - August 2022 (Just the Tonic during the Edinburgh Fringe)
• Freshers’ Plays - Creative Director/Coordinator - September 2022 *
• Welcome Week - Creative Director/Coordinator - September 2022 *
• Festival of New Theatre in Scotland - Programmer - March 2022 (Teviot Underground)
• Scottish Online Student Drama Festival - March 2021 (Online)

Shows

• Glangtivity - Director - December 2023 *
• The Welkin - Sound and Projection Manager - October 2023 *
• Guards, Guards! - Composer - October 2023 *
• Julius Caesar - Production Manager - March 2023 (Teviot Debating Hall)
• Into the Pantoverse - Producer - December 2022 *
• The Rip Current - Co-Sound Designer - August 2022 (Pleasance Above)
• Ondine - Producer - March 2022 (Teviot Underground)
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Production Manager - March 2022 (Assembly Roxy - Central)
• Bedlam Haunted House - Composer/Sound Designer - October 2021 *
• Songs from the Bedlam - Creative Director - October 2021 *
• Catching Up - Tech Manager/Sound Designer - August 2021 (theSpace @ Symposium Hall)
• Zoogmalion - Producer - February 2021 (online)
• Trials and Tribulations - Lighting Designer - January 2020 *
• The Odyssey in 60 Minutes - Co-Director/Writer - January 2020 *
• William Shakespeare’s Christmas Carol - Sound Designer - November 2019 *

Acting

• Princess Ida - April 2025 (Pleasance Theatre)
• Glangtivity - December 2024 *
• Biolanthe - April 2024 (Summerhall)
• HMS Pinafore - April 2023 *

Committees

I was President (2022-2023) and Business Manager (2021-2022) for the Edinburgh University Theatre Company, who fully operate the Bedlam Theatre, and Treasurer (2022-2023), President (2021-2022), and Secretary (2020-2021) for Theatre Paradok. During my time, we reopened the theatre after the covid-19 pandemic and I led the efforts for our return as a venue to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2023.

I took on maintenance of the Edinburgh University Theatre Company’s website. I upgraded it from Rails 5 through to 8, and learned most of my Rails chops along the way.

I wrote my dissertation on Ancient Rock Music: The sound stalactites make when hit by a rubber mallet. This project was inspired by a visit to Luray Caverns, Virginia, where I heard the “Great Stalacpipe Organ”, which produces sound by hitting stalactites with a rubber mallet. I created a simulation using finite-difference and modal methods of the sound the stalactites make by approximating them as a cantilever bar with variable diameter, undertook a field trip to record the sound of stalactites myself, and made a virtual instrument so you can play the instrument in a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW).