Theatre

DIRECTOR & DRAMATURG | UNDONE THEATRE x artsdepot

I directed the R&D of a new show responding to the use of yellow-face in opera, in collaboration with a writer, composer, and musical director. Joey Jepp's Butterfly Project encourages BESEA self-empowerment and speaking up against the (mis)representation of BESEA identities on stage.

Funded by Arts Council England, supported by the Japan Society, artsdepot, New Earth Theatre, Theatre Deli, London Performance Studios | Find out more here

DRAMATURG | CARMEN COLLECTIVE

'Something Is Wrong' is a physical and textual exploration of how London's inequalities are embodied in its citizens. As a dramaturg, I provided the team with research and starting points for a devising process that combined text with movement and choreography.

Funded by Arts Council England

DIRECTOR, CO-WRITER & CO-PRODUCER | UNDONE THEATRE x VAULT FESTIVAL

Following the cancellation of VAULT Festival 2022, Undone Theatre's all-new, ACE-funded production of the queer two-hander Selected Recordings of Us has been transferred to the Rosemary Branch Theatre. 

Funded by the Arts Council, supported by Rosemary Branch, Boundless Theatre, Glass House

"SENSITIVELY AND COMPLEXLY WRITTEN"

– Nic Connaughton, Head of Theatre @The Pleasance​

"JOYOUS, BITTERSWEET", "REALLY LOVELY"

– Alexander Knott, former Artistic Director of the Old Red Lion Theatre

WRITER | BRIDGE THEATRE READING ROOM PROGRAMME

As part of the Reading Room programme, I am proud to present a reading of my play Ghostwriter at the Bridge Theatre to an invited industry audience. Ghostwriter is a non-linear, metatheatrical dark comedy that explores intergenerational struggles in the arts and the social responsibility of theatre makers, interrogating whose voices we get to hear onstage.

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DIRECTOR & DRAMATURG | VAULT x OMNIBUS THEATRE

Following the cancellation of VAULT Festival, Mengqi He's provocative exploration of race, gender and migration has been transferred to Omnibus Theatre. After offering dramaturgical support and workshopping the text during an R&D phase, I have directed a WIP production of Happy Together.

Funded by Arts Council England

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DIRECTOR & CO-WRITER | THE SPACE

Following a successful R&D, Undone Theatre's first London production debuted at the Space Theatre. Selected Recordings of Us is a non-linear, interactive, and queer two-hander exploring how LGBTQ+ individuals remember their personal stories when LGBTQ+ history has been erased. Based on the show's exploration of queer memory, I have created the Remembering project, a collection of fragments from our production and from a Q&A with our audiences.

Funded by Arts Council England​

"Ambitious", "moving", "bold and fascinating" – There Ought To Be Clowns

"[Selected Recordings of Us] leave[s] you with a sense that those involved have plenty to offer us in the future"​ – Everything Theatre

Selected Recordings of Us was longlisted (top 15%) by the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, for their 2020 open submissions.​

DIRECTOR & WRITER | BYRE THEATRE

Following a mentally unstable hero who tries to piece together a narrative that is both his own story and an impersonal archetype, this unsettling take on Greek tragedy turns the original text into a modern-day tale about identity, memory, power, and politics. Featuring original music, sound, dance, and videography.

The project also featured a Q&A on adapting Greek tragedy with the cast and crew and the support of the Centre for the Public Understanding of Greek and Roman Drama (CPUGRD).

“We live in a time where truth and lie merge to form our technology-fuelled reality; this  anxious state is captured in Uboldi’s portrait of the fragile relationship between truth and  self in Oedipus Rex” – STAR Radio​

"a spiralized, dystopian rendering of the play, [...] like a Black Mirror episode in the flesh”

“Uboldi has constructed a story that interweaves seamlessly through and upon itself, so full  of careful details and structured levels” – Owl Eyes Magazine

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DIRECTOR & WRITER | EDINBURGH FRINGE

Greece, 2400 years ago. When Pentheus, the King of Thebes, refuses to recognise Dionysus in his divinity, the god goes to the city to punish him. Or, this should be the plot, if the theatre company weren't arguing over how to stage the show on the night of the premiere.

 An ensemble-based exploration of whether and how classical texts can be relevant today, featuring physical theatre elements, devised sequences.

"A triumphant attempt to turn the 2400-year-old classic drama by Euripides into a funny, politically relevant piece of theatre that appeals to, and engages with, a modern audience"

​"A wonderfully organic combination of the traditional dialogue between the characters, and the actors' hushed conflicts out of character, that does indeed capture the  audience with both light-hearted jokes and serious intensity" – St.Art Magazine