Born in Britain, he trained at the Nottingham Academy of Speech, Dance and Drama and the London School of Contemporary Dance. He is a founding member of ARC Dance Company, founder and artistic director of The Dance Collective and assistant director at the Extemporary Dance Theatre.
Opera productions include The Queen of Spades, Eugene Onegin, Manon Lescaut, Le nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni (GFO); Figaro’s Wedding (ENO); Mitridate, re di Ponto, Die Meistersinger von Nürnburg, Arianna, The Midsummer Marriage, Falstaff (ROH); The Ring Saga, Zaida, Les Boréades, Silas Marner, Vixen Sharp Ears (CBTO); Falstaff, (WNO); War and Peace (Kirov); The Queen of Spades (Chicago); Macbeth, Eugene Onegin (La Scala); Candide (Batignano); Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Moses und Aron (the Met); King Arthur (Châtelet, Caen, ROH); Mitridate, re di Ponto (Sydney); Parsifal, (Opéra National de Paris); Transformations (St Louis); Möise et Pharaon (Pesaro); La traviata (Verona, BOC); Les Troyens, Idomeneo, Tamerlano (Florence); Votsek, Mortal Combat, Don Giovanni, Ulysses Comes Home, Fidelio, Il ballo delle ingrate, Rites of Spring (BOC); Manon Lescaut, Lauriane, The Ring Saga (Lisbon); Orfeo (Ravenna); Tannhäuser (Los Angeles).
Future engagements include Idomeneo (BOC); Aida (Bregenz); Sea of Souls (a new work for ROH).