TRAINING

• IDC, New York City.  Intimacy Training Level 1 and 2
• NIDA Post Graduate (Directing)
• BA Honours (Performance Studies) University of Western Sydney
• Theatre Nepean BA (Performing Arts, acting) University of Western Sydney
• Projekt Istropolitana World Theatre International Training Festival, Slovakia.

COMPANY POSITIONS HELD

2015-16 Artistic Director Milk Crate Theatre
2014- Darlinghurst Theatre Advisory Member
2010-11 Associate Artist, Belvoir
2009-10 Inaugural Resident Director, Griffin Theatre Company
2008-10 Bsharp Artistic Committee member
2000- present Founding member of Milk Crate Theatre Company
1998-02 Founding member of Darlinghurst Theatre Company & Co-Company Manager

AWARDS

• WINNER ROUBEN MAMOULIAN AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR, Sydney Film Festival 2026 for DATE 3
• Sydney Theatre Awards 2018, Nominated for BEST PRODUCTION FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, Alice In Wonderland by Mary Anne Butler from
  the original by Lewis Carroll

* In Development:
• Currently developing her debut feature based on the proof of concept psychological thriller, DATE 3
• Sweet AF A new play by screen/playwright Michele Lee

FILM
• Writer/Director – DATE 3 short film. Psychological Thriller Starring Kate Box and Daniel Henshall. Winner of the Rouben Mamoulian Award for Best Director, Sydney Festival 2026. Flickerfest, St Kilda Film Festival, Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, Vermont, Darwin International Festival, Swan International Women in Film Festival, Aesthetica Film Festival, England and Yofifest New York.

Sport For Jove
Director – Betrayal by Harold Pinter, Old Fitz Theatre 2025. With Ella Scott Lynch, Andrew Cutcliffe, Matt Hardie and Diego Retamales.

Actors’ Centre Australia
Director:
– Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill. Graduating 3RD Year Production 2022
– When The Rain Stops Falling by Andrew Bovell 2023
– A Conversation by David Williamson, 2022
– Ivanov by Anton Chekhov
– Hot Fudge with Ice Cream by Caryl Churchill – Graduating production, class of 2026

Sydney Opera House
Associate director – Claudel. Written by Wendy Beckett. Associate director to Wendy Becket and choreographer Meryl Tankard. Playhouse (2021)

Sydney Festival
• Director – Alice In Wonderland adapted by Mary Anne Butler. Riverside Theatres Parramatta and National Tour (2018)

Stalker Theatre Company
• Director (with David Clarkson) & Dramaturg – Creature – An adaptation of Dot and the Kangaroo by John Romeril. With Ursula Yovich. Sydney Opera House & Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre. National and International Tour, 2017/2018
• Creature Out of the Box Festival, Lyric Theatre QPAC Brisbane, 2016

Casula Powerhouse
Director/Dramaturg – Flame Tree St by Donna Abela. Creative Development 2017/2018

Milk Crate Theatre

Artistic Director 2015-16
• Under Construction – An International Theatre Exchange between Theatre of the Oppressed New York City (TONYC) and Milk Crate Theatre. Designed by Kate Rubin, Exec Director and myself. A forum theatre show,workshops and talks.
• Director: Feast – collaboration btwn MCT and Branch Nebula
Carriageworks, 2016
• Director: First Times – collaboration btwn MCT and Branch Nebula
Carriageworks, 2015
• No Place Like, River Side Theatres, 2014
• Director – Belonging, Bay Bay 20 Carriageworks, 2012

Belvoir Theatre
• Dramaturg – Elektra/Orestes by Jada Alberts and Anne-Louise Sarks, directed by Anne-Louise Sarks. Upstairs Theatre, 2015
• Director – The Business by Jonathan Gavin from Gorky’s Vassa Zheleznova, Upstairs Theatre, 2011
• Director – Parlour Song by Jez Butterworth, Bsharp Downstairs Theatre 2010
• Assistant Director – Gwen In Purgatory by Tommy Murphy. Director Neil Armfield. I toured show to La Boite and Geelong Performing Arts Centre. I was part of the script development workshop, 2010
• Director – Buy Guns by Gareth Ellis. Rehearsed read with Lynette Curran & Russel Keiffel, 2008.

Sydney Theatre Company
• Director – Before/After by Roland Schimmelpfennig, Wharf 2, 2011
• Director –The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh,Wharf 2, 2010
• Director – The Overwhelming by JT Rogers. Rehearsed read & lead post show Q &A, Backstage, Sydney Theatre Company, 2009
• Assistant Director – Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov. Director, Tamas Ascher. Overseeing show in Hungarian director Tamas Ascher’s absence and giving notes. Cast: Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Richard Roxburg, Jackie Weaver, John Bell, Sandy Gore, Anthony phelan, Andrew Tighe. 2010
• Assistant Director – The Serpent’s Teeth by Daniel Keene. Directors Pamela Rabe & Tim Maddock, with the STC Actors Company. Drama Theatre, Opera House, 2008
• Patrick White Award: Reader/assessor for the final shortlist, 2010, 2014, 2020

Griffin
• Director – Dealing With Clair by Martin Crimp. I adapted script in collaboration with Martin Crimp for a contemporary Australian audience, 2009
• Director – The Fates – Spin by Karara Bell-Wykes, with Bruce Spence & Deborah Kennedy, 2009

ATYP
• Director – Quay To The City – ATYP in partnership with Sydney Living Museums, SHFA and The Big Dig. Contemporary performance meets history in a theatrical walking tour of The Rocks, 2014

Playwriting Australia
• Director/Dramaturg – Remains Maxine Mellor, 2014
• Director/Dramaturg: National Script Workshop, Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography Declan Greene & A Little Piece For Her Sister Jane Montgomery-Griffiths, 2012
• National playwrights submissions 2015 Reader/assessor.

Darlinghurst Theatre
• Director/Co-writer – Miss Julie by August Strindberg, a new version by Cristabel Sved & Kate Box, with Kate Box as Miss Julie. Darlinghurst Theatre, 2012
• Director/Dramaturg: The Golden Mullet performed by Drew Fairly – toured to Edinburgh, New York and Adelaide Festivals, 2001-03
• Director – The Woolgatherer by William Mastrosimone. Inaugural production, with Marta Dusseldorp and Alan Flower, 2001

NIDA
• Director – One Flesh – Graduating Playwrights production, 2011

Seymour Centre
• Director – The Book of Job–Writers Onstage, with Barry Otto & Lynette Curran. Seymour Centre, 2009
• Director – The Undertaker’s Bride, with Maeve Dermody & Graeme Rhodes. Writers Onstage. Everest Theatre, Seymour Centre, 2008

Arts Centre Melbourne
• Director – Jack Rabbit by Gareth Ellis. Short & Sweet, Fairfax Studio, The Arts Centre, Melbourne, 2006
Museum Victoria
• Director/Writer: interactive exhibition performances pieces for Treasure’s Launch Exhibition 2004

Plan B Project (Theatre project for men recently released from prison)
• Dramaturg – Rock ‘N’ a Hard Place Russell St Watch House, Melbourne, 2005
• Dramaturg –Til Hell Freezes Horti Hall, Carlton, Melbourne, 2004

Red Stitch Actors Theatre
• Director – The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca. Red Stitch Actors Theatre, 2003

Teaching: Actors Centre Australia, NIDA Playwriting, Griffin Ambassadors’, NIDA Open Program, University of Western Sydney, Darlinghurst Theatre, Sydney Theatre School, National Theatre, Melbourne

Intimacy Directing:
Antigone by Damien Ryan from the play by Sophocles. Directed by Damien Ryan, ACA, 2023
The Libertine, Stephen Jeffreys. Directed by Lizzie Schebesta, ACA, 2023
So Young (Outhouse Theatre Co) – Old Fitz Theatre
Isolde and Tristan (Sport for Jove) – Old Fitz Theatre
Nails the Musical (Little Triangle) – Eternity Playhouse
W (New Ghosts Theatre Company) – Old Fitz Theatre
Not Jor Guru (Harvey Family Co) Short Film