About
I'm a writer, film-maker and script editor.
CV
Film :
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The Weather In The House (writer/director): Short film for LAMDA Screen and Audio Dept.
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Circadia (writer/director): Short film for LAMDA Screen and Audio Dept.
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Films for two tracks for Grasscut's album Everyone Was A Bird
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Elsewhere (writer/director) : Short film. Stars Claire Skinner, Jonathan Cullen; funded by Creative England/BFI
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Grand Union (writer/director): Short film. Selected for Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014; screened at Curzon Bloomsbury 2015
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Sunday : (writer/director): Short film. Screened at London Short Film Festival; Berlin 'britspotting' Festival; Side Cinema, Newcastle; Renoir Cinema, London and Écrans Brittaniques festival in Nîmes (2013)
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Night : (writer/director): Short film [in progress]
Writing :
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A Viewfinder; Untenanted; The Sun Stands Still; Lost Village; Hide; Green River Bend : short screenplays for LAMDA film and audio unit
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Old England : feature screenplay (development)
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Navigation : feature screenplay (development)
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Escapement : feature screenplay (development)
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Circadia : feature screenplay (development)
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A Free Man : feature screenplay (co-writer with NG Bristow, development)
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Middlemarch : script for stage version of the novel by George Eliot (development)
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Gladiator : book and lyrics for musical, based on the DreamWorks film (development)
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Notice : a novel
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The Lightman System : a novel (current)
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Carnival of the Animals : original book and lyrics for musical, based on the suite by Camille Saint-Saëns - staged at Riverside Studios 2013
Script Work :
Script consultant: currently various projects through BFI Film Hub North 2021
Contributor (script consultant) to iFeatures Lab 2019
Seminar leader for script workshop in Romania 2019
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Script editor: current feature project Surviving Earth by Thea Gajic (p. Aleksandra Bilic)
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Script editor: current feature project Shooting Kids by Elizabeth Stopford
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Script editor: current feature project Nemercka by film-maker Prodromos Papadopoulos
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Script editor: feature project by film-maker Henrique Goldman
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Script editor : series project by writer Amelia Bullmore (Sid Gentle Films)
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Script editor : feature project by film-maker Chris Andrews (developed through Creative England/BFI)
*(2000-2001 Head of Drama Development, TalkBack Productions, London;
*1994-2000 Script Editor, BBC TV Independents Commissioning Department)
Teaching :
Current
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Visiting Tutor for the Screenwriting MA at the London Film School, London (since the inception of the course)
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Visiting Tutor for LFS Film-making MA course
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Visiting Tutor for Central St Martin's Directors' Course & MA Dramatic Writing
Past:
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2014: Visiting Tutor on Film-making MA, E15 School, University of Essex
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Course leader on evening course at LFS: How Long Is A Short?
Earlier:
Writing :
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Strange Little Me : Script for stage play, co-written with Amelia Bullmore
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TV projects in development included Zen and Rumpole (Carnival Films)
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Two Encounters : Story, broadcast on BBC Radio 4
Script Doctoring:
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Coup! : original screenplay by John Fortune; directed by Simon Cellan Jones (BBC)
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The Lavender List : original screenplay by Francis Wheen; directed by Colin Barr (BBC)
Opera :
Stage Director for annual Accademia d’Amore workshop in Early / Baroque opera
(Bremen/Seattle 2000 - 2012)
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L’Incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi : Stage Director (Vancouver Festival, 2003)
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L'Orfeo by Monteverdi : Stage Director (Vancouver Festival, 2000)