Yusuf is a very experienced learning and engagement facilitator who leads workshops, and directs projects with hundreds of participants from a range of community groups across Birmingham, London, Manchester and the Southwest. These have included young people (including ESL and NEET), Senior Citizens, people with disabilities, refugees, and people from South Asian Communities. He has curated, produced and facilitated multiple accessible artistic training programmes for young people. He has worked with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, The National Theatre Connections Programme, artsdepot, NCS, Beyond Face, Exeter Northcott Theatre, Exeter University, Stand Up and Be Counted, Theatre Ad Infinitum, Oldham Coliseum Theatre and many more incredible organizations. He is now an Experiment Director for Dream Arts

• Co-Facilitator of The Birmingham REP Foundry 2024 (The Birmingham REP, 2024- Present)

• Experiment Director (Dream Arts, 2023- Present)

• Performing Arts Lecturer (Nescot College, Jan 2023 to Nov 2023)

• In My Shoes Workshops for Young Adults with learning difficulties (In My Shoes, 2022-23) 

• Duckinfield Community Hub Drama Sessions Facilitator (Duckinfield Community Hub, 2022-23)   

• South Asian Performance Project Facilitator (Oldham Coliseum Theatre, 2022-23)   

• Adult Acting Facillitator (Oldham Coliseum Theatre, 2022-23)

• Oldham Hulme Grammar School Facilitator (Oldham Hulme Grammar School, 2022-2023)   

• Waterhead Academy Drama Facilitator (Waterhead Academy 2022-23)   

• Wardle Academy Drama Facilitator (Wardle Academy, 2022-23)   

• Oldham College Drama Facilitator (Oldham College, 2022-23)   

• Kingsway High School, Drama group for ESL Students, Facilitator (Oldham Coliseum Theatre, 2022-2023)  

• Youth Theatre of Sanctuary for Refugees and Asylum Seekers, Facilitator (Stand Up and Be Counted, Oldham Coliseum Theatre, 2022-23) 

• Oldham Coliseum Young REP Company Curator and Facilitator (2022-23)  

• Teaching Theatre Pathways Backstage Theatre Course Facilitator (Oldham Coliseum Theatre, 2022-23)

• Murder Mystery Facilitator (Oldham Coliseum Theatre, Making Spaces, Dementia Participants Group, 2022) 

• Schools Workshop Facilitator (Theatre Ad-Infinitum, Present)  

• Physical Theatre Workshop Facilitator ( Exeter Northcott Futures Programme, 2022) 

• Freelance Workshop and Masterclass Facilitator/Teacher (Exeter University, 2021- Present)

• Young Creatives Programme Producer and Facilitator (Exeter Northcott Theatre, 2021-22) 

• Kickstart Programme Curator and Facilitator (Exeter Northcott Theatre, 2021)

• Here Me Now Workshop Facilitator (Beyond Face, 2021) 

• Online Workshop Facilitator (Part of the Main, with emerging underrepresented artists, via Zoom, 2020)

• Online Workshop Facilitator – Pursued by a Dragon (Pursued by a Dragon Theatre Company, with emerging underrepresented artists via zoom, 2020)

• Performing Arts Tutor (Skipz Productions, in schools with groups of 30 children, 2019-20)

• Children’s Entertainer (Proper Little Parties, 2019-20)

• Pastoral Care Lead (NCS, Responsible for the inclusion of health of groups of 70 15-17 year olds during residential programmes, 2019)

• Student Learning Assistant (Middlesex University, 2017-19)

• Senior Mentor, and Drama Practitioner (NCS, running sessions, motivating and inspiring groups of 15 15-17 year olds during residential programmes, 2017-18)

• White Cliffs of Dover (A reminiscent Verbatim piece performed with and for a care home in St Albans, 2017)

• Freelance workshop Facilitator (The Birmingham Young Repertory Theatre, working with hundreds of Young People in schools across Birmingham, many of which in deprived areas, 2015-16)

• Home Theatre Project (Directed a show made specifically for a care home in Birmingham, 2015)

• Student Mentor (City year UK, placed in a school full time, and worked with many children aged between 7- 11, teaching them math, English and managing difficult behaviour, 2014-15)