Tim is co-founder and artistic director of Oily Cart which began work in 1981, and specializes in multi-sensory, close-up, highly interactive theatre for very young children and also for young people with severe learning disabilities including autistic spectrum disorders. He has trained and mentored companies around the world including Ireland, Sweden, Hawaii, Japan and most recently at Lincoln Center in New York.

Tim has worked as writer and director at theatres throughout the U.K. His scripts have been produced in the U.K, at the Leicester Haymarket, the Albany Empire, Contact Theatre, Manchester, by Greenwich, Glasgow and Leeds Theatre-in-Education companies and, internationally, by the Carousel Players, Canada, So-Edineni, Moscow and the Chicago Children’s Theatre.