Projects

From 17 year old soldiers’ letters home to podcasts, to readings and conversations, to theatre… My Father’s Wars explores two journeys – that of a young man to adulthood in a war, and the intergenerational impact of that trauma on his family.  That young fella was my dad. He enlisted…

The My Father’s Wars podcasts are 5 episodes (45 minutes) about the experiences of a young lieutenant on the Western Front in 1917/18 (my father) and how they impacted him, and us, later, in family life.  They’re designed to be available to anyone, anywhere in the country who may have…

Okay – there’s a new thing in play: My Father’s Wars as a live theatre performance.  And this current development – My Father’s Wars, as I found them…  is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, and by the Queensland Performing Arts Centre and by the Tivoli. My Father’s Wars began life as a series…

An audio thriller about a group of young Australian AWAS girls who intercepted for Douglas MacArthur’s secret Intelligence organisation in Brisbane, Central Bureau. Gradually, one of them becomes convinced there’s a threat right on the doorstep – just out in the Bay – but it’s elusive… By early 1942, the…

I approached Flipside Circus in 2017 with an idea I had for a show for a young audience – on the difficult subject of exclusion. I translated humans into dog-children: insiders and outsiders, pack dynamics, what happens when one dog is excluded from the pack…  but this work needed to…