Writer, performer, podcast
host & funeral celebrant
My Musings & Inspiration
You Can’t Hide in the Desert
Dealing with Fringe uncertainty
Acknowledgement
I live by the beach on Kaurna land. I moved here from Port Pirie on Nukunu country when I came to university.For many years I was fuelled by a great desire to travel around the world. Like many young people of my generation, I left Adelaide with my partner and went backpacking, finally landing in Aotearoa (New Zealand) where we lived for five years. We took another backpacking trip before returning to Adelaide where our children were born. Then, in 2009, we all moved to Abu Dhabi.
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It's my annual, one-night-only, world-famous, live Christmas letter reading.
In Adelaide Fringe 2025, I'll be doing a retrospective of all six of my solo shows. Stay tuned!
Words and writing are at the heart of everything I do, but I love to experiment with form and format.
Performance
I've been writing and performing a series of solo shows since 2018. One per year. They're autobiographical, but they're growing increasingly mostly-true, slightly made-up.
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Visual Arts
I'm definitely not a visual artist, but I've collaborated with friends and now I've got my own solo show. I stitched 6,000 words onto my unstitched wedding dress, and it was one of the most enriching times of my life.
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Showreels
Where to From Here?
It's a gen-x lament, a journey through time, and a middle-aged coming of age
She's on the trip of a lifetime: middle-aged, menopausal and forgotten to buy her onward ticket. Sitting in the station cafeteria drinking over-brewed tea and eating stale croissants, a stranger asks: 'Do I know you?' This simple question will change the course of her life forever.
I Made An Adult
A bittersweet story of beaten eggs, spilt milk and the sifted years of childhood
Midnight in the kitchen. With her youngest child about to turn 18, a mother faces her greatest challenge yet: one final chance to make a Women's Weekly birthday cake look like the picture. But as she turns the cookbook's pages and her memories are stirred, she uncovers a truth she knows she can't hide from her child.
"very moving ... very funny ... a wonderful piece of theatre" Stage Whispers
Pearls
A mother's wisdom lost then found
In the search of a string of pearls, a daughter travels to her abandoned childhood home and a mother travels from Port Pirie to Paris without ever leaving Australia. Family relics abound: ashtrays, a Princess Diana jigsaw, a commode used as a coffee table. Memories are ignited then questioned. And still the pearls cannot be found. Family fractures deepen until finally a heartbreaking, but healing truth is revealed. Combining theatre and storytelling, this is a story that will make you laugh, then cry, then laugh again.
"This is live storytelling at its best" InDaily
Acknowledgement
I acknowledge and pay my respects to the Kaurna People, the Traditional Custodians of the land where I live and work. This is land that was never ceded. I pay respect to Elders past and present.