Writer & Film-maker
"Taxi School" for SBS 2008
with driver Terry, DOP Denson Baker and sound recordist Leo Sullivan. Shot by Toby Ralph.
ABOUT ME
I was born in Fremantle and raised in the sunny west. After completing a BA in English at UWA I headed to California where I stayed for 5 years and in that time, I completed an undergraduate Acting course and a Master of Arts in drama, specializing in Directing at SFSU. I loved San Francisco where I started my career writing satire which I performed in theatres, comedy clubs and on the streets in the Bay Area and throughout California.
After returning to Australia, I worked as an actor and director for ten years on over 20 theatre productions, a handful of TV dramas and films. My produced plays include: Table For One?, Christmas Day, Dangerous Curve and Between Dreams and Get Sando which premiered in November 2026 at Flightpath Theatre, Sydney.
I am currently writing my first novel. Ah, the freedom of prose fiction! As a member of South Coast Writers Centre, I was selected for a one- week writers residency at Bundanon which got me off to a galloping start. I have had a short story published, Men Beware in Great Australian Bites, published by Fremantle Arts Press.
I have a swag of TV credits, writing drama - McLeod's Daughters, Chan & Dee's Drink Tank - and writing, directing and producing documentary series - Con Girl, Outback Car Hunters, Giving Life, Crash Test Mummies & Daddies, Kalgoorlie Cops, Kings Cross ER, Territory Cops, Unreal Estate, Storm Season, Housecalls to the Rescue.
I co-founded my own company Wonderland Productions in 1996. Company credits include Table For One?, Taxi School, Kulka, Freeing the Song, which I also edited and the Award Winning feature doc The Pink House.
Storytelling is my passion, be it fact or fiction, and finding humour in unexpected places keeps me happy and inspired.
R to L clockwise: The Pink House, Freeing the Song, Kulka, The Last Shift, Clique, Taxi School - produced by Wonderland Productions.
EDUCATION
BA, English, University of Western Australia
MA, Drama San Francisco State University
NIDA Playwrights Studio
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
"The Pink House" DAF Best Australian Documentary, Sydney Film Festival 2017
"Kings Cross ER," series 2, episode 1 Logie Award, Most Outstanding Documentary Pr
Writers Fellowship, the Literature Board of the Australia Council 1995
PUBLISHED WORK
Table For One? Currency Press. (1995) Play script.
"Men Beware" GREAT AUSTRALIAN BITES. Fremantle Arts Press. (1997) Short story.
PRODUCED PLAYS
Dangerous Curve (1989)
Between Dreams (1994)
Christmas Day(1995)
Table For One? (1995)
Get Sando (2025)
FILM & TV CREDITS
2023
Writer, Director & Co-Producer Freeing the Song (26 mins) - a celebration of the work of choirmaster Tony Backhouse. ABC Compass & ABC IView.
2022
Series Producer Con Girl (4 x 60) - for Paramount Plus and Network 7 - true crime docudrama.
2021
Series Producer Post Outback Car Hunters - (10 x 60) factual for Discovery Channel and 7 Mate
Director & Co -Writer Chan & Dee's Drink Tank - award winning ( 6 x 12 ) comedy web series.
2019
Series Director & Writer, Giving Life, docudrama ( 8 x 23) for Jaffle Media Channel 9
Mentor Producer, SBS SHORT FORM INITIATIVE, Screen Tasmania & SBS
Co-creator, Writer, Director, Chan & Dee's Drink Tank comedy web series pilot
Tutor, Screenwriting at Australian Film, Television & Radio School
Producer, Bollywood Downunder Doc, Temple Films Ltd
2018
Series Co-creator & Producer Ep 1 Frozen Lies for Foxtel. (3 x 45) True crime series.
2017
Producer/Co-writer The Pink House, Wonderland Productions. Feature documentary about the last original brothel in Kalgoorlie. Screen Australia Signature Fund Project. Official Selection Sydney
Film Festival 2017, DOCNYC New York, FIFO Tahiti film Festival, Vision Splendid Film Festival, Travelling Film Festival Alice Springs, Tiburon International Film Festival, Adelaide Film Festival, Cinefest OZ, San Francisco International Film Festival. Winner Documentary Australia Foundation Prize for Best Australian Documentary at Sydney Film Festival 2017.
2016
Executive Producer, Unreal Estate for Nine Network Production (8 x 42 mins) Factual Entertainment. Comedians Kate Langbroek & Cam Knight explore Australia’s weird and wonderful houses and the people who designed them.
Executive Producer & Writer, Storm Season, Deluxe Australia (6 x 30 ob doc series) Following the rescue work of the SES volunteers. Ten Network.
2014
Executive Producer & Writer Gold Coast Cops, Eyeworks Australia for Ten Network. ( 10 x 26 ob doc series) Following the special, tactical Rapid Action Patrol police force in Queensland.
2013
Series Producer & Writer, Crash Test Mummies and Daddies, Endemol Australia for ABC. (6 x 30 ob doc series) Folllowing first time mums & dads through the first 3 months of parenthood.
Development Producer at Endemol Australia. Creating new factual formats and adapting international formats to the Australian market. Pitch writing. Directing. Sizzle reel production.
2012
Series Producer & Writer, Kings Cross ER, Series 2 (10 x 26 ob doc ) Eyeworks Australia for Foxtel. Observing the work of the Emergency Room medical teams. Winner LOGIE AWARD WINNER, MOST OUTSTANDING FACTUAL PROGAM 2014.
Series Producer & Writer, Being Lara Bingle (10 x 26). Eyeworks Australia for Ten Network. Following the life and work of model Lara Bingle.
Series Producer & Writer, Territory Cops, (10 x 26 ob doc series) Eyeworks Australia for Foxtel. Following police in Darwin and remote areas of the NT.
2011
Series Producer & Writer, Kings Cross ER: St Vincent’s Hospital, Series 1 (10 x 26 ob doc doc series) Eyeworks Australia for Foxtel.
Writer & Post Producer, Kalgoorlie Cops, (Doco series 8 parts) Eyeworks , ASTRA AWARD WINNER FOR BEST REALITY PROGRAM 2012.
2010
Writer/Director, The Last Shift (Short film) Wonderland Productions. The Angry Film Festival 2011.
Writer/Director/ Co-producer, Kulka ( 50 min) Bio Doc about the life and work of Gordon Briscoe) NITV & Wonderland Productions. Distributor: Ronin Films.
Writer, The Force, Series 4 & 5, Seven Productions.
Co- Writer, The Suspects ( 1 hour Dramatised Doco Crime Series) Seven Productions.
Post producer, ICU, ( 8 x 30 ob doc medical series) Seven Productions
2009
Writer/Director, Taxi School (4 x 30 ob doc series) SBS, Screen Australia, Screen NSW & Wonderland Productions.
2008
Producer, 20-1 Series 4 and 5 Nine Network. (Fact Ent Series)
2007
Writer & director, Clique (6 min Short film) Wonderland Productions.
2006
Writer/Director/Producer, A Frontier Conversation (50 min documentary) ANU and Ronin Films & NITV.
2003
Writer, McLeods Daughters "Saturn Returns", Nine Network & Millennium Pictures. (1 hour drama series).
Writer/Producer, Housecalls to the Rescue (17 x 43) Lifestyle series Seven Productions.
2002
Writer, Auction Squad (Series 2) – 1 hour lifestyle series. Seven Productions.
2001
Writer, McLeods Daughters “Who’s the Boss?” Nine Network & Millennium Pictures. ( 1 hour drama series).
1999
Narration writer, Megashark (60 mins documentary) Andrew Wight Productions & Beyond International.
Storyliner for development of Rush (Developed as Rapid Response) 1 hour Drama series. Southern Star. Producer: John Edwards.