After an early career as a child classical performer, I earned a Master’s in Music from Cambridge University. My thesis was titled Wagnerian Thematic Technique in John Williams’s Star Wars Trilogy. I also won a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and earned the LAMDA Gold Medal for Acting.

I performed and toured worldwide in hundreds of classical concerts, recordings, and operas. I also performed on soundtracks including the Star Wars Prequels and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

I am a dual American and British citizen.

I 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. I also underwent in-depth personal psychoanalysis over two decades. I have 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 developed a course for film creatives on Dramatic Form. It traces the shape of dramatic process through character and story, then examines the moral structure of a filmworld and how character development relates to that value system.

I have created a unique course for filmmakers on the use of music in cinema, called Dramatic Score. The course treats film music as dramatic insight: a score can embody character, reveal or conceal truth, subvert expectation, and think expressively within the world of a film.