BIOGRAPHY

A classical actor, I trained at RADA between the years 1986-89; 

The Royal National Theatre (London), Hampstead Theatre (London),  The Royal Exchange (Manchester), Chichester Festival Theatre, Birmingham Rep, The Glasgow Citz, Leeds Playhouse,  Nottingham Playhouse, New Victoria Theatre, The New Vic (London), were some of the theatres I regularly performed at  alternating with productions for the BBC, and mainstream ITV channels and independent film.

Favourite plays and roles have been …in Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Ophelia), Othello, (Desdemona), Sophocles Electra as ‘Electra’, The Winters Tale (Hermione), Middleton’s Women Beware Women (Bianca), and Venice Preserved (Aqualina), Molière’s, The Hypochondriac (Toinette), La Ronda (all female parts), Noel Coward’s, Gilda (Design For Living) and Sybil in Private Lives;  The Rivals (Lydia Languish), Love for Love, and (Rosina), in The Barber of Seville (Rosina).

Favourite screen roles have been, Betty Mcfarll in Catherine Cookson's, The Cinder Path,  Ruth Bannerman in Russel T Davies series The Grand (second series) and Detective Kate Miskin in a BBC adaptation of a PD James novel - Death In Holy Orders.

A keen Cyclist, Walker and Swimmer in 1997 I came across the unique and demanding Afro-Brazilian martial-art/art-form 'Capoeira'.  Travelling to Rio De Janeiro towards the end of the nineties, I returned with a new inspiration to form a local Capoeira group in the South London area.  Though the study and teaching of Capoeira, I was able to keep a  balanced perspective on the business of being an actor, which in turn led me to think more deeply about the world and my creativity.

A documentary called Mandinga, about a Capoeira group in Brighton, was the first short film I directed in 2015.

With a BA in Literature and Creative Writing & a PGcert in Higher Education for Teaching & Learning I lead the screen acting and film prduction MA degrees at Chichester university. 

Speed Date, a short film, devised, scripted and co-directed with my long term partner Tim Pope has been very successful on the festival circuit winning a number of awards … Kino Film Festival Manchester for Best Cinema Photography … Love Story Festival London for Best Ensemble Acting … Micro Film London Festival for Best  UK short film and Best Sound Design and Music Composition.

Recent  projects include:

Script Development & Ass. Producer: Moth (2022)

Director, Producer and Devisor for short film: The Secret (2022)

Director, Producer and Writer for short film: Breakdown. (2022)

Director Producer and Devisor for short film: Ritual (2021)

Writer of Fictional Long Form Screen Play: Fear of Everything. (2021)

Director & Producer for a short film festival winner : Hysteria (2021) 

Script Consultant and Ass. Producer for Screen Play: Drone - written by Tim Pope (2021)

 Production Consultant for Shutters: A Lesbian Rock Opera by Rene Brennan (2021)

Director  for Time Alone written by Alessandro Camon (2019)