[4] He regularly collaborates with producer Beckie Darlington and in 2021, their project The Book of St Helens,[5] a guide-book to the town of St Helens created by 150 local primary school children, won the Liverpool City Region Culture and Creativity Impact Award for Improving Education.
[9] On their website Forest Fringe writes, "we try and serve as a bridge, finding imaginative ways to connect the country’s most innovative performance artists and theatremakers with new audiences, new supporters and new contexts for their work. "
[11] In 2009 he and Forest Fringe co-director Deborah Pearson were named in the Stage list of the 100 most influential people in British theatre.
[14] In 2020 he collaborated with the journalist Maddy Costa to write Performance in the Age of Precarity, a collection of essays on theatre and art for Bloomsbury.
[15] Field completed a practice-led PhD at Exeter University in 2012 exploring the relationship between contemporary performance practice and experimental art happenings in the 1960s and 1970s in New York.