"Being a screenwriter means I bring together everything that I am, and can do - my life experience, psychological insight, skill as a writer.  Even so, I have lots yet to learn, both about life and screenwriting.

I am keen to write personal dramas for TV and Radio, and am particularly interested in biopic work and adaptation."

Lawntronics

My uncle, Tom Petit, was a keen amateur film maker and photographer, and I wrote my first script with him when I was eight.  Our film, Lawntronics, won an annual award for ‘Best Amateur Short’  from the Amateur Cinematographic Association.  

Boosted by our success we continued to make shorts, which meant writing more scripts.  Since then I have written many scripts, plays and radio plays, some of which have been produced. Helped script and act in films as a teenager, including public health film on drug and alcohol abuse.

My training on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Woman’s Hour’ and making half hour radio features, gave me some insight into what was needed for scripts to work.  I also did an acting training called ‘The Mastery’ at the Actor’s Workshop, which gave me further insights into drama.

I wrote a 6-part TV drama about allotments, called Plotting;  and a six-part personal drama about a woman therapist, called Billie.

In 2007 I successfully completed an MA in Screenwriting at the London College of Communication (University of the Arts).  

As part of my training, I wrote a ten minute short, a half hour adaptation of Katherine Mansfield’s short story, ‘The Daughters of the Late Colonel’ and an episode for Doctors on BBC 1.  I also wrote a feature length film (90 mins), ‘Crossing the Line’, which is about a therapist who goes bad with complex consequences.

I continue to lecture as a guest Screenwriting lecturer at LCC.

Have also helped primary school children write scripts for their own shorts

I am currently working on a new feature film and series for TV, both personal dramas.

Have written and filmed a three-minute short, Break

Memberships

Member of the Writer's Guild of Great Britain, Women in Film and TV, Groucho Club, The Stone Club. Also reguarly attend the annual Screenwriter's Festival.

"Nobody knows anything" , (William Goldman, Confessions of a Screenwriter)