I am a Bristol-based scriptwriter working across film, theatre, and libretto, currently completing a BA (Hons) Filmmaking at the University of the West of England.
My work draws on camp, dark comedy, surrealism, and the transgressive, with a focus on character, performance, and visually imaginative storytelling. I write for screen and stage, and my practice is shaped by hands-on experience in production design, casting, directing, and producing, giving me a practical understanding of how scripts live beyond the page.
I am particularly interested in early creative development: rehearsal rooms, collaboration with actors, and shaping tone and story before production begins. Alongside short films and feature scripts, I also write plays and ballet librettos, drawn to theatrical forms where performance and text sit at the centre of the work.
At heart, I am a writer who understands production, values collaboration, and builds strange, stylised worlds led by bold characters and
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California Sexy is a transgressive camp body-horror I wrote and directed for my third-year university project, set in a decaying West Country tanning salon where a vain client slips into a surreal void as staff negligence leaves her burning.
PISSWEAK: The Papier Mâché Man is a surreal dark comedy I wrote and worked on as production designer, following a boyband superfan whose reality fractures into mania after discovering the group has split up.
Whore From Polaris is a camp comedy I wrote and production designed, where a streetwise sex worker shares an unexpected connection with an intergalactic escort, bonding over the strange similarities of their work during an unusual client encounter.
