About me

Photo credit: Atmosphere Photography, Brisbane Festival

I am a writer, researcher and producer, who is passionate about storytelling, through creative writing, short documentaries and still photography. I craft short stories, television series and feature films. My short story Lost but Not Alone in Kyoto was published in the Weekend Australian in 2023.

My idea for a short play Buttercup and Venus: Cowkeepers Extraordinaire has been accepted into the 2025 Brisbane Anywhere Festival. I am thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a Brisbane Lord Mayor’s Creative Sparks Grant for the production of Cowkeepers.

I draw on my diverse range of managerial and project management experience across the not-for-profit sector, Commonwealth government and as a registered nurse in Queensland hospitals.

As a Griffith University alumnus, I possess a Bachelor of Film and Screen Media Production with First Class Honours (2020) and a Bachelor of Arts in Asian and International Studies with a major in Mandarin (1990). I was selected to study Mandarin as part of a Qantas Cadetship at the Beijing Languages Institute in 1987/88 and a Griffith University 12-month Exchange Scholarship to Zhongshan University in Guangzhou in 1988/89.

I’ve worked in the film and theatre industry as an Art Director, Design Assistant and Production Assistant with award winning filmmaker Peter Hegedus (Soul Vision Films) and acclaimed Production Designer Georgina Greenhill.

In 2018 I indulged my love of film and arts as a Curatorial Assistant for the Brisbane International Film Festival, an Arts Reviewer for Brisbane Festival and as a sessional tutor for the Asia Pacific Cinema Online course at Griffith Film School.

I am currently a third year PhD candidate in screenwriting at Griffith Film School, Brisbane. My research interests intersect gender inequity, ageing and the representation of women aged over 40 on screen. My research artefact is a feature film screenplay starring three women over the age of 45.