I am an author and screenwriter, with several short stories published, some of them gathered for my debut collection ebook, which you can check out here Time Standing Still
Selected by IFTA for a one-to-one script consultation with Galway Film Fleadh 2011 Screenwriter-in-Residence Gill Dennis (Walk the Line), with my feature script LADY BETH, I have also participated at Masterclass level with such high calibre writers and directors as Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons, Atonement), Mark Travis (The Writer and Director in Collaboration) and with Jim Hart (Dracula, August Rush, Hook), and Andrew Bovell (Lantana, Edge of Darkness). I’ve also taken part in Steve Kaplan’s Comedy Writing Workshop and Vince Gilligan’s Deconstructing Breaking Bad.
Awards and Credits:
Feature screenplay, PIXER KNOWS! won the Atlantis Award at the 2011 Moondance Film Festival and was a finalist in the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards 2010.
An extract from the novel version of LADY BETH, was published in the literary journal, REVIVAL in May 2011.
THE CAPTIVES feature screenplay, in collaboration with Director, Vittoria Colonna, long-listed for The Bafta Rocliffe New Writing Forum 2011.
EVANESCENCE feature screenplay, second round PAGE International Screenwriting Awards 2011.
ARKYNE and LADY BETH, both long-listed for the Fresh Voices Pitch Award, 2011.
My horror script, THE LUPII, reached the quarter finals of the Write Movies 2010 competition and also the second round of the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards 2010.
Short script, IN RIBBONS, won Second prize at the 2010 Waterford Film Festival.
I am a member of the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild and the Irish Film and Television Academy .
