Scriptwriting
I am a screenwriter, playwright, and dramaturg who completed my interdisciplinary PhD on performance writing on the rural, environment, and queer/lesbian lives in 2023. I won the Oberon Best Text for Performance award in 2017 for my play few words. I have been longlisted for the Royal Court Writer’s Group and the Bruntwood Prize. I have been shortlisted for the Verity Bargate award and Women’s Prize for Playwrighting. In 2023/24 I was awarded the maximum DYCP fund from Arts Council England.
I find myself most often ending up in sci-fi or fantasy genres. I write stories about the lesbian, queer, prison-class, working-class, and transnational experience. I don’t think you need to kill the dog. I do think you should always kill someone, though. Probably. I am keen to be in writer’s rooms and to collaborate on making series about women from all ages, backgrounds, and sexualities taking up space in places they have been told they shouldn’t.
Dramaturgy, Teaching, & Creative Development
I have worked as a dramaturg at Oxford Playhouse, The Gate, Bloomsbury Festival, RADA Festival, and as freelance dramaturgical support for commissioned playwrights. I enjoy a collaborative and European approach to dramaturgy, focusing on writing as a holistic landscape rather than a purely literary task.
I specialise in ecological, queer, lesbian, and feminist dramaturgical practices. and have worked across translation, adaptation, and new writing. I have also consulted on writing for screen, most recently as a script editor for an optioned feature film.
I have taught on BA and MA Theatre and Performance modules as well as led accessible educational workshops at Birkbeck, University of London, University College Oxford, The National Trust, and Oxford Playhouse.
Scholarship & Research
I graduated Cum Laude from Midwestern State University in Texas with a major in Literature & Language and minor in Drama In 2016. In 2018 I gained a distinction on the MA Text & Performance course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. I have most recently completed a Practice-Based PhD for Birkbeck, University of London during which time I worked as a dramaturgical research assistant at Shakespeare’s Globe. This work included a completed site-specific audio-performance text exploring the relationship between a queer erotic and transatlantic rural landscape.
I research how second wave feminist practices might contribute to weaving more complex queer realities and subjects into modern storytelling and performance practices. I also write for Den of Geek on current trends in theatre, film, and television relating to gender and sexuality, ecological racism, income disparity, and migration. I draw from American Indigenous scholars and Black and Lesbian feminist scholars in altering ways of viewing nonhuman/more-than-human beings and working with nature and site in writing for screen and stage.