My BBC R4 Drama, THE THINGS WE NEVER SAID, featuring Lia Williams and Siân Phillips, produced won Best Radio Drama in the Writers' Guild Awards 2018.

Upcoming projects include UK première dramatisation, KIRA (from the novella Kira Georgievna by Viktor Nekrasov) for BBC Radio 4 (TX 2 April 2023) and a two-part dramatisation of A MANY-SPLENDOURED THING by Han Suyin, also for BBC Radio 4 (TX November/December 2023). Short film BRITISH PEOPLE, for THE UNCERTAIN KINGDOM anthology (20 films about the UK in 2019), was released on BFIPlayer, iTunes, Amazon Prime, Curzon Home Cinema and Google Play, June 2020; other works include site-specific live audio drama CITIZENS OF NOWHERE? for Chinese Arts Now/Beijing 707N Theatre, London Southbank Centre and Edinburgh Fringe, 2018-19; comedy drama RIOT GIRLS: MALE ORDER, starring Belinda Lang and Carolyn Pickles, for BBC Radio 4 (TX 20 February 2018 & BBC Sounds); HAMARI YAADAIN (OUR MEMORIES), a verbatim short play for EVERY THIRD MINUTE FESTIVAL, Leeds Playhouse (March 2018 & community tour); and short films for LAMDA - SCHLAF NICHT and TWENTY-FOUR HOURS (YouTube).

Writer in Residence, Theatr Clwyd, 2019; Sphinx Theatre #Sphinx30 #SphinxLab 2020 playwright, sponsored by Theatr Clwyd (R&D for main stage play, Theatr Clwyd).

I started my career in development, as Script Executive at Zenith Productions, where I worked across a slate of film and TV drama and script edited series such as HAMISH MACBETH (BBC), BODYGUARDS (ITV), and FIRM FRIENDS II (ITV). For Ecosse/BBC, I co-created the series McCREADY & DAUGHTER (starring Lorcan Cranitch & Patsy Palmer) and became a contract writer on EASTENDERS, where I worked on storylines including the domestic abuse of Little Mo Morgan and her trial for attempted murder. I subsequently wrote for CASUALTY, HEARTBEAT, and THE BILL.

In 2013, I was selected for the Royal Court Theatre's first Over 26s Writers' Group; my play, EXHUMATION, was workshopped there in 2015, with associate director Lucy Morrison and cast including Anna Calder-Marshall.

My spec feature, ALTER EGO, won an invitation from French screenwriters' association, Maison des Scénaristes, to attend their International Screenwriters' Pavilion at Cannes 2015. I was also selected for Filmonomics 2016, a Bird's Eye View/BFI/Creative Skillset feature film development/mentoring scheme.

My blog, '(Dementia Just Ain't) Sexy' was inspired by experiences with my late mother, who lived with the condition for over 20 years: I write and speak widely on this issue (outlets including BBC Woman's Hour, Victoria Derbyshire, The Guardian, The Times, BBC Wales) and sit on the Advisory Board of Raising Films (campaigning for parents and carers in the screen industries) and Carers Advisory Panel of Dementia Carers Count (charity supporting unpaid dementia carers).

1. Scriptwriter

   BBC · Sep 2022 - Present

   Writer: KIRA - 57' dramatisation of Viktor Nekrasov's novella, Kira Georgievna, for BBC Radio 4 (TX 2 April 2023).

2. Scriptwriter

   BBC · Dec 2022 - Present

   Writer: A MANY-SPLENDOURED THING - 2 x 57' dramatisation of the semi-autobiograpical novel by Han Suyin, for BBC Radio 4 (TX November/December 2023).

3. Scriptwriter

   Hot Knife/The Uncertain Kingdom · Apr 2019 - Aug 2019

   Writer: BRITISH PEOPLE (part of THE UNCERTAIN KINGDOM short film anthology)

4. Scriptwriter

   LAMDA · Aug 2018 - Oct 2018

   Writer: TWENTY-FOUR HOURS (short film)

5. Scriptwriter

   BBC · Sep 2017 - Jan 2018

   Writer: RIOT GIRLS: MALE ORDER, BBC Radio 4 (TX 20 February 2018)

6. Scriptwriter

   LAMDA · Aug 2017 - Oct 2017

   Writer: SCHLAF NICHT (short film)

7. Scriptwriter

   BBC · Sep 2016 - Mar 2017

   Writer: THE THINGS WE NEVER SAID, BBC Radio 4 (TX 11 May 2017). WGGB Best Radio Drama, 2018.

8. Scriptwriter

   BBC · May 2005 - Sep 2006

   Writer: CASUALTY

9. Scriptwriter

   Freemantle/ITV · Nov 2004 - Mar 2005

   Writer: THE BILL

10. Scriptwriter

    YTV · May 2004 - Sep 2004

    Writer: HEARTBEAT

11. Scriptwriter

    BBC · Jan 2001 - Aug 2004

    Writer: EASTENDERS

12. Script Editor/Series Co-Creator

    Ecosse Films/BBC Northern Ireland · Sep 1998 - Jan 2000

    Script Editor and Co-Creator of McCREADY AND DAUGHTER, pilot and series for BBC Northern Ireland, starring Lorcan Cranitch and Patsy Palmer.

13. Script Executive

    Zenith Productions · Jan 1992 - Aug 1998

    Script Executive: development script editing and management of TV drama and feature film slate.

14. Script Editor

    Zenith Productions/Carlton TV · May 1996 - Oct 1996

    Script Editor: BODYGUARDS, starring Louise Lombard, Sean Pertwee, John Shrapnel

15. Script Editor

    Zenith Productions/BBC Scotland · May 1994 - Oct 1996

    Script Editor: HAMISH MACBETH, starring Robert Carlyle

16. Script Editor

    Zenith Productions/YTTV · May 1993 - Nov 1993

    Script Editor: FIRM FRIENDS 2, starring Billie Whitelaw and Madhur Jaffrey

1. Workshop with Directors UK: Directing from stage to screen with Josie Rourke and Thomas Hescott

   ScreenSkills · Jul 2020

   ScreenSkills Funded