I started training in literature and drama, but ended up studying Music at Trinity College of Music, London and started teaching the 'cello and piano. In 2009, a chronic illness caused me to be house and bed bound, so alongside teaching from home, I began an English Literature degree, completed mostly from my bed. After making an almost complete re... Read More

I started training in literature and drama, but ended up studying Music at Trinity College of Music, London and started teaching the 'cello and piano. In 2009, a chronic illness caused me to be house and bed bound, so alongside teaching from home, I began an English Literature degree, completed mostly from my bed. After making an almost complete recovery in 2014, I continued studying and started working full-time again.In 2017 I joined Drop Dead Films as Head of Production to manage the production of '13 Graves' while teaching and studying for a MA in Cultural and Creative Industries at Sussex University. This included me in the 'Yes She Cannes' awareness campaign for women in film at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017 and 2018.In 2019, I graduated with a distinction just as '13 Graves' was released. The viral pandemic in 2020 prompted me to close her teaching business in order to write, so I started Scriptworks Productions with my editor and filmmaker husband Gino Isaacs. 2021 and 2022 have seen multiple awards for our first short film and pilot script, most notably being a finalist in the BAFTA Rocliffe TV Drama New Writing Competition and being selected for the 2022 BFI Doclabs cohort.We live in Eastbourne with our two sons (both live with Autism and other special needs), and have an adult daughter and son. I identify as female (she/her) and live with a connective tissue disease. Read Less