w writer/lyricist BA (hon, drama) Manchester University

 Began career as actress in film, theatre, tv and radio and simultaneously fiction reader for Penguin Books before turning to:-

·   Writer:  radio dramatisation of Edna O’Brien’s Johnny I Hardly Knew You (BBC) television dramatisation of Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons (BBC)

narration for a nine-part short documentary series Russia 1800 for PBS (WGBH, Boston, sponsored by Mobil Oil)

      book and lyrics for a musical Kiss and Pray, music    Billy McGee

·   Lyricist: worked with various jazz and rock artists in UK and Europe, including Mort Shuman, Gianna Nannini, Liane Carroll and Rod Argent

      title song for Yorkshire Television film (with Showtime USA) Magic   Moments

      several tracks on a jazz album That’s Life published by Jazz Art

      three concerts of children’s songs (The Purcell Room, London, South Bank Centre)

wrote scats, lyrics for the new songs, and new lyrics for Shuman/Pomus songs, for the musical Save The Last Dance For Me (music Mort Shuman, book Ray Connolly)

all the lyrics for a cabaret Those Good Old Days (Merlin International Theatre in Budapest, 2 seasons, and a private performance for the Hungarian Ambassador in London)

·   Currently:   the book and lyrics of  new musicals -  The Kiosk, music Andrew Peggie

       Mariyam, music Andrew Peggie

       Chasing The Romantics... lyrics. Book with Ewen Moore. Music Ewen Moore and Nicola Buttigieg.

·   Member of PRS

·   Professional Writer Associate at Mercury Musical Developments