About Me

An artist who enjoys order and organization. With a background in theatre, dance, visual art and various forms of writing, I have hopped back and forth from behind the scenes to centre stage, and relish both performance and creation. I have a passion for writing and story-telling and enjoy experimenting with various literary and media forms in order to get through to my audience.

An avid traveller, and a child of many homes (primarily Cape Town, South Africa, and Toronto and Montreal, Canada) I can’t get enough of exploring different cultures and natural environments. My nomadic childhood has left me with one foot in the West, and the other in the global South. I can’t seem to stay put in either for long before I get itchy feet.

Upon completing an Honours degree in English (Cultural Studies) at McGill, I turned my attention to theatre. As well as assisting Catherine Bradley, McGill’s costuming teacher, in both design and fabrication for the English Department plays, in 2006 I coordinated the greatly successful McGill Drama Festival at McGill’s Players’ Theatre, in which I was involved with everything from production to stage management to playwriting to costume and set design. I currently work for Catherine Bradley as a Project Manager on a digital costume design endeavour for which we received SHHRC and McGill Arts Insight grants.   

I am about to complete a Graduate Diploma in Communications Studies at Concordia University. It’s the start of a new chapter. I’m interning at PMA Productions in Montreal, working on a series of documentaries about Canadian writers and a feature-length film about smallpox and plagues in Montreal in the past and current day. My next greatest excitement is that I will be heading to Israel and Palestine in July to film a documentary which I aim to complete by year end.

Other future plans are numerous and unclear. I will continue taking on miscellaneous projects here and there – on camera, behind the camera, on the stage, online and on the written page. Specific plans are producing a “how-to” travel show, which will act as a tool for backpackers, giving tips about the cultural differences in non-Western countries, and revealing the innumerable options out there for ethical and sustainable travel, and how to make a positive impact through world exploration. I intend to travel more, write more, act more, create more and constantly learn more about the world I live in.

 

 

working at studio 300

 

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