Filmmaker
Screen Writer
Movement Director
Filmmaker
Screen Writer
Movement Director
I am a choreographer, filmmaker, artist and writer who has produced work on stage, on screen, in galleries and up mountains. I have an extensive background in dance theatre and British / European contemporary dance, and I’ve directed and produced numerous films and dance theatre pieces. I am currently producing two politically inspired factual entertainment series and shopping several screenplays. My writing focuses on what happens when worlds collapse – socially, politically, environmentally, and psychologically.
Regardless of form, the transforming body is at the centre of my work. Bodies travel through wormholes and across desolate landscapes; they fly above floating cities and fall through crumbling rooms; they dance into musical alternate realities and time-travel via fractals; they drown in oceans and they disintegrate into dust. Bodies are broken and rebuilt, deconstructed and reconstructed, trapped and set free. And at the heart of every character, whether written or devised, is a body that moves. Sometimes with others, sometimes alone. Sometimes frenetic and sometimes graceful. These are bodies that vibrate, even when still. Bodies that speak, even when silent. And bodies that listen without words.
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CHOREOGRAPHY
Bodies, Borders & Belonging : The Film
Commercial Choreography Reel
Experimental Choreography Reel
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WRITING
Blood, Water, Dust
20 October 2022
Television Series / Novel
Status: Spec pilot, pitch doc, look-book, bible
Sheriff Blake wants to save her town. Dusty wants to break a curse. And Bola wants revenge.
LOGLINE: In a two stoplight town plagued by drought, the dried-up husks of men start to appear. When the local Sheriff investigates, she encounters a bi-racial Maya girl (15) who is haunted by a centuries old curse.
Top Ten Pilots Film Hub 2023
Top Ten Horror in I.S.A. Table Read Austin
Finalist for Writer’s Lab UK 2021
Quarter Finalist Blue Cat, Screen Craft 2020
The Pareto Principle
24 January 2022
Feature Film (110 min)
Status: spec script, director attached
Comps: It’s Stephen King’s Carrie with a dance twist, inside a dark mirror version of a classic 80s teen movie.
Music, magic and dance collide in a surreal and kaleidoscopic tale about power, passion & punishment.
LOGLINE: An unlikely friendship between a sexually fluid Brit and a wealthy debutante ends in horror – when a spell spirals out of control on prom night and turns a throng of dancing teens into a deadly danse-macabre.
The City of Clouds
25 December 2021
Feature Film (104 min)
Status: spec script
Comps: The adventure of His Dark Materials (Pullman); the tone of Spirited Away (Miyazaki); the rotoscoped look of Undone.
LOGLINE: After her father disappears during a routine cargo flight, ten-year-old MAY discovers that she can fly. And on her quest to find him, she uncovers a secret about her ancestry and learns that flying isn’t the only surprising thing she can do.
WON: ISA Fellowship, Stowe Story Labs 2020
Semi-Finalist: Screen Craft Animation, New Voices in Animation, Creative Screenwriting Animation
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LATEST NEWS AND BLOGS
The Pareto Principle
1 June 2023
My collaborator Sean De Sparengo and I have been building the deck for our dance horror project The Pareto Principle. I did an initial painting, then Sean played around with it. I’m loving the result.
Blood, Water, Dust UPDATE
27 July 2022
Thrilled that my pilot script has made it into the TOP TEN HORROR selects for ISA Table Read Austin.
Solidarity, Credit, Justice, Security
17 May 2022
I’m so thrilled to help the US Choreographers Guild get rolling. After years of feeling alone as I shouted into the wind, it’s so amazing to be part of something larger, something that will improve the lives of film choreographers – present and future – and something that is all about solidarity, fairness, justice and […]
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