Speaker, writer, character and narrative consultant, psychoanalytic thinker, screen composer.
I help shape stories, films, and experiences at the intersection of cinema and psyche.
I have forty years of international creative experience in film, television, and music, and a BAFTA Nomination.
Born in England in 1976, I live in Los Angeles and hold both American and British citizenships.
After an early career as a child classical performer, I earned a Masters in Music from Cambridge University - thesis: Wagnerian Thematic Technique in John Williams's Star Wars Trilogy - won a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and gained the LAMDA Gold Medal for Acting.
I performed and toured worldwide in hundreds of classical concerts, recordings, and operas, and in soundtracks including the Star Wars Prequels and Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
I have completed the Introductory and Foundation courses at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis - including a year's clinical observation at London's Halliwick Center for Borderline Personality Disorder - and received two decades of in-depth personal psychoanalysis. I've also attended short courses, lectures, and workshops at the Philadelphia Association, the London Centre for Psychotherapy, the New Center for Psychoanalysis, California's New Center for Psychoanalysis, and the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies.
I have composed the orchestral and electronic scores to over twenty feature films, as well as numerous television series, documentaries, and commercials. I have orchestrated, conducted, and produced all my scores.
I have created a unique course for filmmakers on the use of music in cinema - Dramatic Score. The course examines film music as dramatic insight - how score can embody character, reveal or conceal truth, subvert expectation, and think expressively within the world of a film.
I am also developing a course for film creatives on Dramatic Form. This course traces the shape of dramatic process in character and story. It examines the moral structure of a filmworld, and how character development exists in relation to that value system.
My creative work extends into bespoke web environments and AI-driven systems: digital forms shaped as mindfully as music, writing, and film. I have completed the Google AI Professional Certificate, deepening a practical engagement with AI as a powerful daily tool for research, organization, prototyping, and imaginative development.
