2024
PUMPKIN GOULASH TV Special script advanced to Semi-finalist in the Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition, selected for Berlin International Screenwriting Festival Spring 24, a Quarter-finalist in the San Francisco Independent Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2024 and a Finalist in the Cambridge Script Festival Winter 23/24
NETTLES TV Pilot script advanced to Quarter-finalist round in the Outstanding Screenplays TV Pilot Competition 2023
Currently reading Feature & Short scripts for Female Voices Rock Film Festival, NYC 2024
Attended Directors UK sessions with AI educators Text Generating AI with Cassie Quarless, Image Generating AI with Colin Byrne and Video Generating AI for Directors with Cassie Quarless
2023
NETTLES TV Pilot script advanced to Quarterfinalist round in the Screencraft Drama Screenplay Competition and was Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Quarter-Finalist Spring 2023
NO I’M THE PRETTIEST short film concept has been short-listed for this year’s BFI Script Development Lab
Invited to join the Board of Advisors for the Margate Film Festival, UK
Observed tapings of multi-cam TV sitcoms The Conners at CBS/Radford Studios, the Frasier revival at Paramount Studios and brand new show Extended Family at CBS/Radford Studios in Los Angeles
Attended 2023 Warner Brothers Access Discovery Program: Virtual Shadowing of US Episodic TV Directing with two time Emmy award winning TV director Mary Lou Belli on BET’s ‘Sacrifice’ s1 ep11 presented by Female Fatales
Excitedly read Feature, TV and Short film scripts to help find this year’s Female Voices Rock Film Festival, NYC screenwriting competition finalists
Attended Coverfly Career Lab session: Post-Strike Playbook - Insight From Literary Managers
Attended WFTV session: Creature Special Effects Q&A: Prosthetics vs. VFX
Attended 4Skills | BBC | NFTS sessions: Intro To Script Editing and Comedy & Drama Career Progression
Attended the Global Day of Solidarity with WGA (Writers Guild of America) Strike in Leicester Square, London with other WGGB ( Writers Guild of Great Britain) members
2022
An early draft of my NETTLES TV Pilot ranked Top 30 in Filmarket Hub’s TV Pilot 2022 International Screenwriting Contest Script + Bible on Filmarket Hub.
Attended Directors UK workshop Building Your Brand on Social Media with Dinita
Observed Groundings Theatre classes; Sketch Writing with Guy Stevenson, Intro to Improv with Julie Welch and Voiceover Acting with George McGrath in Los Angeles.
Joined queer lead Unentitled writers group in person sessions in Los Angeles and Scribe Lounge UK online sessions.
Toured working studio lots at Paramount, Hollywood and Warner Bros, Burbank in Los Angeles.
Attended Film Independent US Screenwriting discussion with Lee Jessop, a Consultant to Universal & NBC.
Attended Film Fatales discussion The Art of Screenwriting with writer/directors Jessica Sharzer (A Simple Favor), Laurie Collyer (Sherrybaby), Mora Stephens (Zipper) and moderated by Jamie Burton-Oare (African/American)
2021
Qualified as St John's Ambulance Vaccinator Volunteer to help administer Covid-19 vaccine in my community.
Completed The Mono Box London’s Intro To Playwriting course with Lisa Carroll
Joined Scribe Lounge, UK Screenwriter’s Community.
Participated in Page Craft 's Writer's Room practical workshop: Demystifying the TV Writer's Room with Emmy winning Liz Hara
Attended GloNation Studios LA webinar on Writer’s Room Assistant And Script Coordinator roles with Emma Jay
Attended Directors UK event How To Manage Your Agent Relationship with Matthew Bates and Sarah Putt
Attended Directors UK web workshop Our Professional Story with Ann Booth-Clibborn
2020
X ANNIVERSARY short film invited to screen as part of art film festival following its international festival run. Strangelove Festival's Kent Kino curated by Ben Barton is online now.
X ANNIVERSARY online platform Premiere is on Directors Notes alongside my Filmmaker Interview answering DN's thoughtful thematic + technical Qs
X ANNIVERSARY Australian premiere screens online 19 Jul 3:00pm ET. I answer Qs from actor Keeley Forsyth on the film + my craft on IGTV
X ANNIVERSARY is Female Voices Rock Film Festival's ‘Short of the Week’. I enjoyed telling FVR the inspirations behind the film in my Spotlight Interview
X ANNIVERSARY is now an award winning film!
Best Cinematography award win Shore To Shore Film Festival Attended awards + screening 14 Mar @ Studio Movie Grill, Los Angeles USA
Best Actor award (all gender identities category) win Catfish Shorts Film Festival Attended awards + screening 15 Feb @ Whirled Cinema, London UK
Collecting Keeley Forsyth’s Best Actor award for her mesmeric multi-character performance in X ANNIVERSARY
X ANNIVERSARY official selection Geelong International Film Festival Australian Premiere Screening online 19 Jul with prerecorded Q&A
X ANNIVERSARY is New York City’s Female Voices Rock Film Festival’s 'Short of the Week' Online 6 Jul alongside my Filmmaker Interview
Gained Screenskills Covid-19 Awareness On Production Certificate / Safe Sets Covid-19 Level A Certificate (International) / Screenskills Tackling Harassment & Bullying In Workplace Certificate
Participated in Page Craft's practical workshop Demystifying the TV Writer's Room with Liz Hara (Life In Pieces) to experience working in an American Writers Room.
Joined Film Fatales LA webinars In the Writer's Room with TV Writers + Directors including Sian Heder (Little America, Orange Is The New Black), Nijla Mu'min (Queen Sugar) and Cherien Dabis (Ozark, Empire) / Episodic Directing for TV and the Post-Pandemic Future with Anu Valia (Mixed-Ish), Dawn Wilkinson (Empire, How To Get Away With Murder), DeMane Davis (Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam CJ Walker) and Maggie Kiley (American Horror Story) / Storytelling Through Editing with TV Editors including Shannon Baker Davis (BlackAF, Queen Sugar)
Joined BAFTA TV Sessions webinar Making of The End of the F***king World (Channel 4) with Exec Producers, Directors, Actors and Exec Producer + Writer Charlie Covell
Joined Screenskills + Directors UK webinar Craft of Multi-Camera Directing TV Studio Comedy with Barbara Wiltshire (Inside No.9, BBC)
Joined WFTV webinars Directing Intimate Scenes with Intimacy Co-ordinator with Lizzy Talbot (Bridgerton, Netflix) / In Conversation with Kate McCullough, Director of Photography (Normal People, BBC + Hulu) / Post Sound in Film/TV with Nina Hartstone (Black Mirror, BBC + Netflix) / Music in TV Production with Alisha Lazare from Channel 4 / VFX & Animation in Film/TV with Lucy Ainsworth Taylor (Peaky Blinders, BBC)
Joined BAFTA TV Sessions webinar Craft of Editing Comedy and Drama with Editor Dan Crinnion (Killing Eve, BBC)
Joined Sundance Collab webinar Telling Your Story With Sound - A conversation with Alma Har'el (Honey Boy) + Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
Participant in JMK Trust's theatre workshop Working with Non-Traditional Theatre Texts with Tinuke Craig
Participant in Young Vic Theatre workshops The Designer and Director Working Relationship with Khadija Raza / A Designer's Process - Nora: A Doll's House with Tom Piper
2019
In Los Angeles Nov + Dec to attend AFI Festival + catch local theatre
Observed Theatre Director Chris Sonnex collaborate with Playwright + TV Writer Anna Jordan (Succession, HBO + Killing Eve, BBC) and direct rehearsals of We Anchor In Hope at The Bunker Theatre, London UK
X ANNIVERSARY now on festival circuit
Official Selection + Best Cinematography Award nomination Underwire Festival Attended awards + screening 16 Sept @ Castle Cinema, London UK
Official Selection Kerry Film Festival Attended screening 20 Oct @ St Mary's Church, Kerry Ireland
Official Selection Margate Film Festival Attended screening 23 Oct @ Tom Thumb Theatre, Margate UK
Official Selection Filmstock 12 International Film Festival Screening 22/23 Nov @ Youthscape, Luton UK
X ANNIVERSARY screens to a full house at Filmstock 12 International
Selected for Directors UK + Spotlight's Directing Actors workshop, working with up and coming actors on a TV script
Directed two theatre pieces for Wolab's HAPPY EVER AFTER? showcase at The Bunker Theatre feat Yu Heng Li + Rebecca Rayne
Participated in Young Vic Theatre workshops // Incorporating Movement: Devising & Collaborating workshop w Kwesi Johnson / Voice: tools for Directors practical workshop w Cathleen McCarron / Dramaturgy in British Theatre workshop w Zoe Svendsen
Applied for BBC New Directors scheme + Directors UK + ITV Studio's Multi-Camera Drama Directors Workshop
Submitted original TV pilot to BBC Script Room Drama 2019
2018
Awarded Directors UK's Inspire Mentoring & Career Development Scheme to shadow a female TV Director
Shadowed Features + TV Director Jill Robertson as she directed Harlots ITV + Hulu S2
Shadowing Jill Robertson as she directs an episode of Harlots (ITV + Hulu)
Shadowed TV Director David Lewis Richardson as he directed continuous drama Doctors BBC One
Observed Theatre Director Hamish Pirie direct his tech + dress rehearsal of Instructions For Correct Assembly at Royal Court Theatre
Selected by Euroscript to receive feedback on an original TV script from Features + TV Writer Stéphanie Joalland at the London Screenwriters Festival
Accepted for NFTS Developing + Pitching TV Drama short course
Accepted for Directors UK Pitching workshop
Keeley Forsyth THEN THERE CAME A TIME screening at the first Margate Film Festival ahead of my Margate shoot for next short film X ANNIVERSARY also feat Keeley Forsyth
Pitched my director’s vision during Lightening Talk round for Genesis Future Director Award at Young Vic Theatre
Submitted an original 30min TV drama pilot to 4stories