I'm originally from the North East and graduated from Cumbria Institute of the Arts in 1997 with a degree in Media Production. My career began as an AD on commercials, short films and corporate videos before cutting my directorial teeth on broadcast promos. Over the years I've produced a lot of commercial content for a wide variety of high street brands and worked with many television personalities, music acts and Hollywood stars.I was 1st AD & 2nd Unit Director on the feature film ‘Dark Signal’ for Executive Producer Neil Marshall and have made several narrative short films including a film noir adaptation of 'OTHELLO', which won 'Best Film Inspired by Shakespeare' at the Shakespeare Film Festival in 2018. Festival patron Sir Kenneth Branagh said of the film: "Great assurances in the performances... There is a real confidence to the direction... Visually impressive, and even lush, it has a great maturity cinematically...". I also won best music video at AAA New Music Awards in 2007 for ‘Kill Romeo’ by Smith 6079, shot by BAFTA nominated cinematographer Sam Care.I'm represented by 1 Artists’ Agency, a member of DirectorsUK and former secretary of the Writers/Producers/Directors branch at BECTU. I've run a screen acting workshop at The Actors Centre and taught filmmaking & script analysis for the International School of Screen Acting at 3Mills Studios. I'm a trained script reader & script editor and work as a private script consultant. I'm currently developing my new film company GO BIG Pictures.