I am interested in creating performance driven work; pieces that explore human relationships, our animalistic psyche, mental health and gender identity.

I look to collaborate with like minded, determined writers, theatre makers and film makers and am not specific about what the project is. I am as invested in marketing material and music videos as I am film and TV as long as it communicates my values and creative vision.

I personally create work that focuses on human relationships, our psyche, instincts and ways of being. I am interested how gender roles and mental health affect these and how these all feed into wider society. I enjoy storytelling through hyper realistic acting and believe in subtle cinema to best reflect this. 

Below are some of my more recent works: 

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WoMum 

WoMum is a short film that I co-wrote and am

Directing that is currently in Production. The

project is being produced by female lead Candid

Broads Productions and will feature well known

and widely credited actors Bronagh Waugh,

Ceallach Spellman and Sèverine Howell-Meri. 

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WoMum tells the story of Single mother Sofia,

whose relationship with abusive partner Guy

has just come to a climactic end, and her 22 year

old son Liam, who supports her in the aftermath.

Sofia, who has always felt that she needed a man

to rely on and that without one she is only half a

person, hits rock bottom as she begins to lean on

her own son as he comforts and looks after her.

With Liam imminently moving out to live with his

girlfriend and seek independence Sofia is forced

to come to the realisation that she is pretty strong

herself and now must strive for independence and

a growing self worth.

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The film is supported by Solace Women's Aid

Foundation and is currently in the search of

funding. If you are at all interested in supporting

this project please get in touch!! THANK YOU! 

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                                                                                  From One Empty Nest to Another 

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                                                                                               'Empty Nest' is the story of two women.  It is a study of  a

                                                                                                female relationship, between mother and daughter Lily and

                                                                                                Dianne.  Within the dialogue you see Lily and Dianne

                                                                                                competing and fighting for control, despite the fact that what

                                                                                                they are saying is predominantly affectionate. This passive

                                                                                                aggression, however, is just a mask for two desperate and

                                                                                                lonely people with a huge disconnect, unable to grow closer

                                                                                               due to geography and other commitments. It is the story of

                                                                                               two people who are victims to the cycle of life and the

                                                                                               inevitable parting of family.

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                                                                                              Secondly it is a study of parent/ child relationships and the

                                                                                              issue of dependency. The film touches on the difficult balance

                                                                                              that most encounter at middle age of trying to simultaneously

                                                                                              raise your own family and support your parents. The balance

                                                                                             of finding your own new identity and either maintaining

                                                                                             or breaking the identity you were given as a child. And

                                                                                             alongside these often the detachment that comes with the guilt

                                                                                             of not managing to give your parents the due time and

                                                                                             attention they deserve and so instead putting them in a box

                                                                                             and and adding them to you weekly, monthly or in the case of

                                                                                             Lily and Dianne, yearly check list. 

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                                                                                            Finally, the film explores the concept of empty nest syndrome

                                                                                            and the conflicting feelings one has as a parent; the joy in

                                                                                            watching your children fly the nest, and the loneliness and

                                                                                            emptiness that comes with their being gone. And despite the

                                                                                            fact that Lily has been through this and Dianne is approaching

                                                                                            it the two women do not connect with their shared experience.

 

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That's All  

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'That's All'  is a 'super short' that was shot on super

16mm film on the Arri Flex 416. It is a satirical film

that comments on people’s lack of understanding in

regards to mental health. The film is based around

several conversations that I had with my father

when I was struggling with anorexia myself. My aim

when writing the script and directing the actors was

to make the scene uncomfortable to watch. Slightly

jarring and absurd. This concept is reflected in the

purple sky, the sky is as strange as the concept that

it is ‘that’ easy to ‘fix’ a mental illness.

 

One worry I had about the script was that I thought

there was a possibility that the film could be read as

me truly saying that it IS that easy. Which of course is

the total opposite of what I was trying to say. But I

was really thrilled by the actors stylised, over

dramatic and sarcastic performances which I feel

unsettle the viewer and unearths the true intention of

the script. Of course it’s not that easy to fix anorexia,

that’s absurd! Is the sky purple?