Nick McIvor teaches Mathematics at an 11-18 school in Central London (UK). He was born Scotland and completed a Maths degree at York before going to drama school and spending the next 10 years working as a writer, actor, and occasional stand-up comic in theatre, TV, and radio. In 1995 he undertook teacher training at the Institute of Education (IoE) in London and has taught secondary maths ever since. He has been extensively involved in the mentoring and training of teachers since 2006 and in 2017 completed a Masters in Research Methods, also at the IoE. He has recently embarked on a PhD at that same institution, investigating the practice of secondary maths teachers by considering them as semi-improvised scripts. Central to this study is the question of whether early career teachers could be better supported in the their classroom practice by re-imagining their own practice through this lens.