I’m a screenwriter based in York, raising my gorgeous son amidst the snickleways and trains – and with the smell of KitKats wafting on the winds.
After working as a lumberjack for RSPB in Wales, doing Research and Development in Eindhoven, and Teaching English as a Foreign Language on Crete, I was swept off as a GI bride to Baltimore in ‘93.
I returned to Britain in 2000 and went on to take an MA in Screenwriting at the Northern Film School in Leeds. The first short I wrote, ‘Wolf in an Aran Sweater’, swept the board at the Fujifilm scholarship awards 2000, and got a cinema release alongside De Niro’s ‘The Score’.
Subsequently I’ve been selected for a number of prestigious script development schemes; including Arista Adept and in 2002, the Moonstone Screenwriter Lab (partner of Sundance Institute). My tutors were Stephen Cleary, Walther Bernstein (‘The Way We Were’) and Troy Kennedy Martin (‘The Italian Job’).
I’ve written three more award-winning shorts; ‘King Ponce’ was a UKFC digital short and ‘Very Heaven’ was a UKFC Digital Short Plus. My comedy short, ‘Condimentia’ starring Mark Benton, was BAFTA long-listed.
I was selected for the EAVE (European Audio Visual Entrepreneurs) Producers’ programme – with a dystopian rites-of-passage feature film project called ‘Blight’. This was also short-listed for I-features.
I helped write and script edit the first Cuban horror feature film, ‘Eres Tú Papá? (Is That You?)’ in 2018.
In 2020 Phil Shelley of Channel 4 selected me for an 8-month TV script development mentorship. My script editor was Joe Williams (‘Keeping Faith’, ‘Lupin’).
Presently I’m enjoying BAFTA Crew/BFI X – 18 months of networking and craft classes. I’m developing a supernatural thriller called ‘Dispossessed’ with a producer I met on the course.