Theresa trained at Oxford University and on teh Regional Theatres Young Director Scheme. As a trainee director at Birmingham Rep, joint artistic director and as Artistic Director of Pentabus she has directed many new plays including Sarah Woods' hit comedy Grace, Alecky Blythe's controversial Strawberry Fields, Julian Garner's award-winning Silent Engine and Bryony Lavery's epic Precious Bane. After leaving Pentabus she took up the post of Artistic Director at the New Victoria Theatre in Stoke-on-Trent.