Irene’s been writer-in-residence withFirst Story,North and West Yorkshire Libraries,NHSLeeds and Calderdale; consultant/writer on several HLF projects across Yorkshire;writer/storyteller on suffrage projects with minority groups; educational facilitator on environmental themes with Aire Rivers Trust; consultant/writer/storyteller with Historic England exploring heritage through literacy/poetry/drama, creative writing tutor for FE, HE and independently.She’s appeared at Edinburgh Fringe, infilms, on radio and in many regional productions; adapted stories and hidden histories for stage and radio. Co-founder of and Artistic Director ofFresh Aire Productionswith Pete Aveyard (currently writing for HIGNFY). Their‘Queens of Dawson City’radio sitcom Series 1 has featured on many local radio stations and Series 2 is in production.‘Under Their Feet’a recent play based on a true suffrage story is set to tour in 2019.Irene’s regularly commissioned to perform pieces at festivals around the country, and work is featured in exhibitions, on lock gates, has beamed onto buildings and been carved in stone.Currently a selected writer on the Mikron Theatre writing course; Dark Angels graduate; BA History/LiteratureChildren’s Books:Strange Tales in Bradford Dale, 2016, Gizmo PublicationsStrange Tales in the Dales, 2015, Gizmo PublicationsAnthologies:‘The Hat Box’and‘Palacio de Cristal’,2018, CommuterLit.com‘Invisible Man’Armistice 100 Days, 2018, 26 Characters/IWM‘Stories from Stone’(writer/editor), 2018, Gizmo Publications‘A Stitch in Time’,2017,Tyto Alba, Comma Press‘Mary, Mary’,2017, 26 Twits/Roald Dahl Centre‘I Love You’,2016, 26 Lies/Free Word Centre‘Rock to Seahouses’, 2016, 26 Steps‘Lady Val’,2015, Write a Wish,‘Betty the Beautiful’,2015, Under a Northern Sky‘Ballad of Bodmin Moor’2015,26 Postcodes‘Scrolling Past’2015, 26 Pairs of Eyes/Foundling Museum‘A Notebook’,2014, 26 Designs/FIESTAPlays & Performance‘Under Their Feet’,2018, dramaturg. True suffrage story (Bradford Cathedral, touring 2019)‘Protestors4Peace: Bradford Women’s Humanity League 1916/18’,2018 (Delius Centre, Bradford)‘Mrs Norton, Working Woman’,suffragette story, 2018 (Bradford, Leeds Libraries, Shipley Glen ‘Rally’)‘Margaret Graham, Female Aerialist’,2018 (Piece Hall, Halifax)‘Over the Edge’,duologue 2018 (Pub Theatre Leeds)‘Tragedy of Mary Ryan at Newlands Mill’,2017 (Bradford Industrial Museum)‘Carol’, Christmas Presence’,2017, (Pub Theatre Leeds)‘Words, Women & War: Forgotten Female Voices of the Great War’,2016 (still touring literature/arts festivals, schools, libraries, museums. Next at York Lit Fest, March 2109)‘I’ll be Watching You’,2010, (Domestic abuse conference Leeds/York)‘Uncle Phil on TV’’ 2008,adaptation of JB Priestley short story (Bradford Cathedral)