Artistic Director of Fragen Theatre Company

Roland was born and raised in Barry, South Wales. He is a co-founder and artistic director of Fragen Theatre Company.

He directed his own play, Stalemate, at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, followed at the 2009 festival by a new play, Man Pursued, both of which were produced by Richard Demarco. In 2010 he spent three months with the Sideshow Theater Company in Chicago, where he worked as an assistant director on their production of Strangerland; while in the city he also worked as a dramaturg on a production of Sheila Callaghan’s Dead City with students at Columbia College. For a year he was an assistant for fringe opera company Open Door Opera, with productions of L'Enfants et les Sortilèges at the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the 2011 Notting Hill Mayfest, The Medium and Iphigenia. In 2013 he taught English through theatre with children in Romania as part of Béznă Theatre’s development programme. In late 2013 he assisted Lorne Campbell in Northern Stage’s production of Dark Woods, Deep Snow. Since 2011 he has been a BA Directing student at Drama Centre London, where he has assisted Jonathan Martin on a student production of Rodolfo Usigli’s The Imposter. In 2014 he has directed his own play, Planter’s Island, and directed a short opera by young composer Alex Campkin, for which he wrote the libretto. He has also written and directed a short film, Blushes, which is currently in post-production.