Writer
STAGES - Find your light. When a restless Kiwi actress and mother, Yael, is drawn into a book of the renowned Maria Dronke, she finds herself travelling through space and time, weaving past and present together through a series of fantastical one-on-one acting classes with Maria that explore their ancestry and craft, forcing Yael to face her fears in order to find hope, purpose and inspiration to carry her through. Maria Dronke was a star of the European stage who fled Nazi Germany for the safety of New Zealand and went on to train the first generation of NZ theatre icons.
THE CREATION STORY tells the tale of Ranginui the Sky Father and Papatūanuku the Earth Mother, and their many children who plot to separate them.
In RONA AND THE MOON we learn how Marama, the Moon, came to look the way it does in our southern skies today.
THE GREAT WAKA tells of the creation of The Milky Way with all its constellations, and how they have been used through the ages to guide Polynesian sailors navigating the southern seas.
PAPER SCISSORS ROCK follows three sisters as they come together for their mother’s 50th birthday. Secrets are revealed, relationships are challenged and family dynamics are irreversibly changed.
HOW IT WAS TOLD TO ME was created as part of the upgrade of Auckland’s Stardome Planetarium Fulldome show MATARIKI DAWN, I co-wrote these three award-winning short fulldome animated films with OHU Domes. They are now a stand-alone collection screening locally and internationally.
