Live Comedy & Performance

I’m a character comedian, storyteller and theatre maker.

I create immersive worlds where the audience aren’t just spectators — they’re active participants in the story. My work is bold, absurd, playful and awkward, mixing comedy, theatre, ritual and social experiment.

I draw on clown, bouffon, dark characters and raw vulnerability to create tragi-comic arcs that blur the line between reality and fiction. I explore manipulation, faith, masculinity and, especially, identity: its performance and the ways technology distorts it. Rituals become parody, bravado cracks to reveal fragility, and humour emerges in the chaotic, unpredictable places it all goes wrong.

I combine the tight storytelling and structure learned in 25 years of directing film and TV with the unpredictability of Burning Man, where my performance practice first emerged, and the intense immediacy of my neurodivergence-led approach.

I’ve trained with Soho Theatre and Spymonkey, performed across the UK, Europe and the USA, and appeared on BBC3. In 2025 I was awarded an Arts Council England DYCP grant.

Mike Moe Money: This Is Not A Scam

Mike Moe Money - This is what success looks like

Interactive Comedy Theatre Show
TV sitcom (in development)

Mike Moe Money: wealth guru, success coach, World #1 Catastropreneur. With his simple 47-step get-rich-quick system — Catastronomics — he can mentor you to success too. Limited time only — 10x your life today!

Styled as a high-energy wealth seminar, with you as the delegate, this interactive parody skewers hustle culture, scam tactics, and the toxic influence of social media on how we see ourselves. It’s a witty, cutting, unsettling look at money, manipulation and the desperate promises that keep us chasing success.

Guru Dave’s Cosmic Ego Trip

Interactive Comedy Theatre Show

Guru Dave: Master of Meditation, Top Dog of Tantra, Highest-Charging Healer in the Spiritual Business. You’re invited to a life-changing retreat — inspired by my own misadventures in conscious festivals, cacao ceremonies, hugging workshops, sober raves and mindless meditations.

This immersive, satirical and semi-improvised show places you inside a parody workshop led by a self-appointed spiritual teacher of dubious morals. Magnetic, manipulative, deluded, Dave leads rituals that reveal how the search for truth leaves us open to charismatic figures — whether self-styled gurus or even the performers playing them (!) — and the responsibilities that come with it.

Yes, there will be eye-gazing.

  • Burning Man (USA) 2016
  • Burning Nest (UK) 2016
  • Nozstock Festival (UK) 2019
  • Midburn Festival (Israel) 2022
  • Borderland Festival (Sweden) 2022, 2025
  • Borderland Festival (Denmark) 2019
  • Microburn Festival (Wales) 2018, 2019
  • Schloss Schonburn Festival (Austria) 2016, 2019
  • Chisenhale Dance Space (UK) 2017
  • Rosemary Branch Theatre (UK) 2020
  • Lambeth Fringe (2024)
Guru Dave stands on stage holding burning incense, smoke billowing, against a purple tage backdrop

The Sinner’s Sermon

Comedy/Immersive Theatre

A participatory, roaming, pseudo-religious procession of comic rituals culminating in a collective “purification.” Loosely inspired by the Jewish tradition of Tashlich, where sins are cast into water, The Sinners’ Sermon uses humour, parody and absurd logic to create a strangely powerful shared ritual.

The piece draws from multiple religious traditions while maintaining a tone that is irreverent, inclusive and genuinely affecting. Audiences join in absurd acts of penance, group confession and reflection, building towards a shared catharsis.

 

Ticked Off / Mr Good Name

Monologue

A thoughtful, funny monologue exploring identity, dating, antisemitism, and life with an unusual name. Commissioned in 2021 by The Space Theatre through Arts Council England’s Arts Recovery Fund. It’s a theme I keep returning to across film, stand-up and theatre. Ticked Off is now being adapted into a documentary-comedy hybrid film: Mr Good Name.

  • The Space Theatre (UK), 2021

BorderTinder

Interactive Comedy Game Show

What if you had to treat people face-to-face the way you do online? BorderTinder invites you to swipe on real humans through a giant mock-up phone in a pop-up game show that revels in the worst of digital dating behaviour. Matches? Not really the point — but when they happen, couples are sent on an “immediacy date” — immediately! — drawn at random from a shiny gold envelope.

  • Borderland (Denmark) 2018, 2019
  • Microburn (Wales) 2018

Questicles

Questicles team performing at Borderland 2025. 4 actors dressed in gold make menacing faces while wearing golden penises on their heads. The lead performer wears a head mounted microphone.

Comedy/Performance/Interactive Experience

Born out of bouffon, Questicles is part treasure hunt, part challenge game, part absurd ritual. Players are drawn into curses, quests, and impossible tasks by a gleefully mean host and their goblin helpers. What begins as nonsense builds into a strange collective experience where parody, failure and play collide.

Designed for festivals and site-specific events, the show can run as a small, contained solo experience or a multi-day, ensemble-led site-wide game. It thrives on immersion, interactivity and chance — no two players’ journeys are ever the same.

 

Shaped in real time by audience input, chaos and unpredictability, the work reflects a neurodivergent-led approach to performance. It uses interaction and bouffon logic to challenge assumptions, subvert status, and gently undermine power structures and received wisdom.

 

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