Teaching

Any questions or enquiries about my primary school teaching, tutoring, creative writing teaching and script reading work, including fee rates, please email me.

2007 - present day	Primary School Teacher, South London. I currently teach Year 2 in a Wandsworth Primary School where I use a lot of stories and storytelling techniques to help children engage with the National Curriculum. I run a Year 3 and Year 4 after-school Storytelling Club. I was featured in a 2009 Saturday Telegraph article Private Tutor. After school hours and during the holidays, I work as a private tutor with 6-8 year olds, specialising in developing confidence in creativity and learning.
2007 - 2008	Creative Consultant/Youth Arts Worker, Epsom Youth Theatre & Branded Youth Theatre. I worked as a Tutor and Dramaturge, helping to develop the acting and writing skills of teenagers and young people.
2005 - 2007	Birbeck College, University of London. Teaching Scriptwriting on the BA Visual Media and Film course: classroom and 1-1 development.
2005 - 2007	The Open University. Teaching the new online Creative Writing course: face-to-face and online classroom work, with activities.
2003 - Present Day	Private scriptwriting/editing classes. Private classes and one-to-one editing meetings with private clients in Surrey, London and Berlin.
2001 - 2007	Training Workshops/Masterclasses. For the last five years I have been heavily involved in creating and co-producing training events for writers, producers and directors. From 2002-2004, I co-produced very big international television drama and comedy events with MediaXchange. Now I work for the company producing a monthly report on the international television industry. I also research and produce reports on associated topics to help with the continued development of the company’s training courses. In 2004 I worked with The Writers Guild of Great Britain and ScriptWriter magazine on a very big training weekend with the Hollywood script analyst Linda Seger. In 2005 I worked with ScriptWriter magazine to produce a series of Masterclasses with leading British drama and comedy experts, all in the aim to producing better scripts.
2003 - 2005	Soho Theatre & Writers Centre (West End Literary Theatre). I helped develop new playwrights. I read plays and wrote detailed industry reports for the theatre and for the writer.
2001 - 2003	Professional Script Reader. For UK Film Council (Development Fund), ICM Agency (Catch 22 UK) and Blake Friedmann Literary Agency. I read and reported on film scripts and treatments, television scripts and treatments, manuscripts and plays for adaptation and further development.
2002 - 2004	Epsom Borough Adult Education. Created and taught my own course to adults: A Beginner’s Guide to Scriptwriting for Film & Television.
2004 - 2005	Reading Events. I created and co-produced The Writers’ Variety Night with The Writers Guild of Great Britain. I read my work on stage, along with many other writers. I also read my work at numerous British and European writing events. In July 2005 I had a 30 minute slot at the Café Rosa Reading Night (Berlin), followed by a Q & A session about script reading. reading flyer