NICE THINGS THAT HAPPENED

Winner – H.P. Lovecraft Award, Rhode Island International Film Festival for The Birdwatcher

Winner – Best Unproduced Screenplay, A Night Of Horror International Film Festival for Game

Winner – TV Pilot Competition, WeScreenplay (with Ella Roby) for Small Town

Winner – One Hour Drama Pilot Competition, Shore Scripts (with Ella Roby) for Small Town

Nominated (current) – Best Short Film, AACTA Awards (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts) for DIY

Nominated – Best Short Film, Sydney Film Festival Dendy Awards for DIY

Nominated – Monte Miller Award, Australian Writers Guild Awards for Fingers

MY WORK

Since graduating from the Australian Film Television and Radio School in 2019, I’ve been fortunate enough to find consistent professional work as a screenwriter and win some competitions along the way.

My focus since 2020 has been on full-time screenwriting partnership MMGG, also featuring talented nerds Jasper Garner Gore and Rebecca Moret. We specialise in punchy, high concept genre material.

We now have horror, sci-fi and dark comedy projects in different stages of development with production companies in Australia, Europe, Canada and the US and our first commissioned feature, a teen thriller starring Kate Drummond (Wynonna Earp, Utopia Falls) and Carson MacCormac (Clown In A Cornfield, Locke & Key) debuted on Lifetime Movie Network in August 2024.

Since I began splitting my time between Australia and the Netherlands in 2019, I’ve been lucky enough to develop TV and feature projects for the likes of Blooming Media, Rinkel Film, Pure Imagination Studios, Mint Films, Explorers of the Unfound and Reel One Entertainment, working with MMGG and individually.

After winning Best Unproduced Short Screenplay at A Night Of Horror International Film Festival in 2022 my screenplay for Game landed with Aussie director Tony Gardiner and went into production in LA in July 2024 re-titled DIY, starring Damon Herriman (Justified, Mindhunter), Claire Lovering (Play Dirty, Class Of ‘O7and Alex England (Alien: Covenant, Little Monsters).

Premiering at St Kilda Film Festival in June 2025, DIY was an Official Selection for FrightFest London, Sydney Film Festival, Austin Film Festival and Screamfest LA, and is currently nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Short Film.

Commissioned by director Ryan Mackfall, my screenplay for cosmic horror short The Birdwatcher was produced in Cornwall in 2024 starring Craig Russell (Queen Cleopatra, The 95th), Mary Woodvine (Enys Men, Bait) and Kevin Horsham (The Northman). The short was selected to premiere at FrightFest in Glasgow in March 2025 with a US premiere at Chicago Horror Fest in May. The Birdwatcher went on to win the H P Lovecraft Award at Rhode Island Flickerfest.

Working regularly as a script editor for features and TV, I’ve also created concepts for major music videos for acts such as Trivium and Amon Amarth, now viewed over four million times.

Before committing to a tortured life of screenwriting, I worked extensively as a journalist and touring musician internationally. As such, I’m well accustomed to long hours, little sleep, large egos and surviving on literal peanuts. I get things done and thrive in a crisis (but not on a Monday when I’m running ten minutes late and can’t find my other sock).

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

In 2018 my horror/mystery TV pilot Small Town (written with my childhood pal Ella Roby) was selected for development funding through Scripted Ink, former NCIS:LA showrunner Shane Brennan’s screenwriting initiative based in Australia.

Also in 2018, I was selected alongside Chris Burke, Peter Mattessi, Jessica Paine and Ella Roby to travel to Los Angeles to attend the Charlie’s Lab Pilot Program a joint initiative between Australians in Film, Scripted Ink and AWG Pathways.

Led by industry professionals, the course included intimate talks and conversations with some of LA’s most interesting insiders, creatives and executives who are part of the working machine that is Hollywood.

My short horror/adventure film screenplay Fingers was inducted into the Australian Writer’s Guild’s Pathways Showcase Program in 2016. I was made part of their My Slate initiative in 2019, designed for screenwriters who have had more than one project accepted into the program.

As part of grants from Screen NSW in 2022, 2023 and 2024, I returned with MMGG to Charlie’s, Australians In Film’s headquarters at The Lot Studios in Los Angeles. There we’ve spent many weeks developing new material, building a network, writing on assignment and pitching existing projects to Hollywood.

INDUSTRY AWARDS