About me
Playwright-Filmmaker-Poet-Director
Live with disability - Live with curiosity
Love wild water places - Love intimate spaces.
Sing spontaneously - Dance with interiority.
Exist with Pride.
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November 2012
Bakehouse Theatre, SA
FEAST Festival
I enjoy working with people that have a
conceptual aesthetic and practical mindset.
I am passionate about making work
that is moving, evocatively explores the 'otherness of the other' and embeds access,
and it's rewarding to work with others
who feel the same.
Other works
UGLY - a not fairytale
LABYRINTH PRODUCTIONS 2022, Writer
a hybrid dance-audio-visual performance as part of Adelaide Fringe Festival
PRESERVING JARS
Siren THeatre, 2019,
Professional staged reading of full length play as part of PLAYLIST INITIATIVE, Mardi Gras
ballad of the median strip
Gasworks Arts centre, 2015
Professional staged reading of full length play as part of PLAYTIME INITIATIVE, Midsumma
a piece for blood oranges & an electric guitar
fivepointone theatre, 2015
knowing me..you, 2010
Professional staged reading of 'playbaret' as part of THE READING SESSIONS
One Act play, Judges Award for Directing, PINK SHORTS, Midsumma
hunting in packs i & ii,
Southern youth theatre ensemble
1999 & 2000,
Executive Producer
Devised theatre works over three years with at risk young poeple with resource packs.
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Performance works in progress
EPIC LESBIAN DRAMA “HERSAY”,
i am currently in the thrid stage of creative development of an epic drama of unrequited love between two best friendsthat spans three centuries, three continents and three towns. prima facie X THE hours x the childrens hour
- Creative development 3rd stage at Carclew July 2024
- Adelaide Festival Centre's writeSPACE residency 2023
- CRAM Collective residency 2022
- Signet Library, Edinburgh Research Residency 2016
- Midsumma Festivals’ Playlist Residency 2015
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- Design modelling residency funded by Richard Llewellyn Deaf Disabled Artists Fund Nov 2023 - April 2024
- Pratice based Research Residency funded by Arts South Australia Arts Recovery Fund 2022 based at MOD.Museum and part of CRAM Collective's Residency Program Oct - Dec 2022
- Technolgy development by Eugenie funded through an Australia Council repurposed grant in partnership with ADEPT, NSW in 2023
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Winner:
FSP Single Poets Collection 2021
October 2021, Friendly Street Poets, SA
$22 per book, with signed dedication
PLUS Postage & handling. Email me.
Recent Publications
questing Beast & Coalescent
2023, rabbit JOURNAL,#37
In edition themed ‘Collaboration’
Essay published in Edition 8 themed 'Disability and the body
BECOMING Unlonely
2022, Sable books, NY, USA
The Taoundi Trail & a-Lighting
2021, ginninderra press, S.A
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Melbourne Street, Route 218 & Black Saturdhaze
2020, clouds of magellan press, vic.
in ‘The Ending Hasn’t Happened Yet ’ Anthology of writing by disabled authors, Edited by Hannah Soyer
in ‘Adelaide: Mapping the Human City Anthology’. Edited by Deb Stewart.
in Bent Street Anthology LGBTIQA+ Writing & Ideas, Issue 4.2
coffee order
2020, room magazine, canada
The Permission Slip
2019, MsLexia, united kingdom
':Neurodivergence’ Issue, vol 43.3
Novella shortlisted for International MSLEXIA «Women’s Novella Prize»
The inner shepherd
2017, SOUTHERLY JOURNAL,NSW
Short story published in Southerly literary journal Edition 76.2
Screen
Short film, 2002
Raw Nerve Initiative
Opening night, Shorts Film Festival 2003
SBS Summer of Shorts 2003
Short film, 2003
Mercury Cinema:
Media Resource Centre SA TropFest Entries Screening
Recent Residencies/ Shortlists
access coordinator program
Screen Australia, 2023
'Selected as one of nine to be trained as Australian Screen’s inauagural Access Coordinators
quicksilver
writer & director, SAFC & mercury cx, 2021
'The Permission Slip' shortlisted for short film funding initiative
SPRINGBOARD PLUS INITIATIVE
Writer & director, mar -may 2021
FILM LAB:NEW VOICES
Writer & director, SAFC & AFF, FEB 2021
SPARK! INITIATIVE
writer, matchbox pictures, aug-sept 2020
Scholarship to undertake this film making program run by Mercury CX and South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC)
Shortlisted for this Screen Australia and SAFC low budget feature film initiative
One of ten selected for development and pitching of a TV SERIES CONCEPT to Matchbox Pictures.
TALENT CAMP SA
writer, AFTRS & SAFC, 2019
FULL TILT - DIsability short doc
writer & creative consultant, SAFC & SBS, 2018
Screen project development program exploring taking script to a pitch for web or TV episodic series
‘Empire of the Underdogs’ reaching final commissioning shortlist and development funding
screen/multimedia
works in progress
NO AMOUNT OF MINDFULNESS...
i am currently making a creative non-fiction short digital series with the above stem phrase as an opening prompt for artists with disability to write a short monologue.
THE EXQUISITE FAMILIAR
i am one of eleven artists with disability that created works for this interactive, immersive, multi-art form installation. SUpported by Access2arts, AGSA & MOD.MUSEUM.
https://youtu.be/g8KQhntIClg
- first episode with Kirsty Martinsen written and filmed, in editing stage
- Second episode with myself written and in filming stage
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- digital and sound workshops and exhibition at MOD.Museum in 2023
- drawing workshop and exhibtion at The Studio, Art Gallery of South Australia Dec-Jan 2022-23
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Other roles
Access Coordinator for Screen see CrewHQ profile in contact details below
Access Coordinator at Nexus Arts https://nexusarts.org.au/
Board Member, Australian Network of Art and Technology https://anat.org.au/
Co-Convenor, RUMPUS Theatre https://www.rumpustheatre.org/
Get in touch with me
@
simplylateral@gmail.com
0449 879 188
Support my work &
Payments
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Other roles
Access Coordinator for Screen see CrewHQ profile in contact details below
Access Coordinator at Nexus Arts https://nexusarts.org.au/
Board Member, Australian Network of Art and Technology https://anat.org.au/
Co-Convenor, RUMPUS Theatre https://www.rumpustheatre.org/