[2] In Cagliari she performed and directed A Game of Chess, a project inspired by the work of Samuel Beckett, James Joyce and T. S. Eliot that was her first experiment in combining live jazz with theatre, in 2001.
[7] She has performed as a vocalist with leading musicians, including Paolo Fresu, Evan Parker, Guy Barker, Orphy Robinson, Huw Warren, Byron Wallen, Cleveland Watkiss, Jean Toussaint, Kenny Wheeler, Laura Cole, Jackie Walduck, Tori Handsley, and Tony Kofi,[8][9] and has appeared at several international festivals,[10] as well as on radio.
[8] In 2010 she formed the Filomena Campus Quartet, with Steve Lodder on piano, Dudley Phillips on bass and Rod Youngs on drums,[5] with projects including Jester of Jazz (featuring Jean Toussaint and Rowland Sutherland on a 2011 recording), Italy VS England with Italian writer Stefano Benni, Scaramouche (2015, with Giorgio Serci and Kenny Wheeler) and Queen Mab.
[22][23][24] Reviewing this sold-out performance for Jazz in Europe, Erminia Yardley wrote: "With a mixture of theatrical panache and sheer talent, they all produced a show that raised the bar.
"[25] In 2020, Filomena was awarded by London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP) an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded Research Studentship at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama for a Collaborative Doctoral Award with the Verona State Archive Franca Rame Dario Fo and Fondazione Fo Rame.