Steph is Streetwise Opera’s Trusts and Foundations Manager. Working closely with the Head of Fundraising, Steph implements the Trusts and Foundations strategy, developing and maintaining relationships with new and existing funders to generate maximum income from grant-giving organisations.

Steph studied BA Music at the University of Leeds and MA Music and Sonic Media at the University to Sussex to pursue film music composition. While in Brighton, Steph was selected for Brighton Early Music Festival’s events management traineeship which introduced her to behind the scenes of the early music world and initiated her career in arts administration. Upon returning home in Wolverhampton, Steph interned as a journalist for the new music magazine, Clout (fka Born Music), before beginning a freelance portfolio career which included working as Head Curator at online music opportunities platform Syncr Music, Digital Marketing and Content Consultant for electronic music producer Alex Over, and Administrator of early music and theatre charity The Telling. Now their General Manager, Steph continues to work for The Telling alongside Streetwise Opera on a part-time basis, remotely from her Shropshire home.

Steph is also an active music composer. She has written scores for shadow puppet company Shadowflix, is the sound world creator of game company Cerberus Studios, and most recently scored an animated short for Script Sirens which was nominated for Best Animated Film at the Midlands Movies Awards. Outside of music, Steph enjoys travelling, hiking, reading and watching gritty films.

Steph's pronouns are she/her.