Welcome to my blog, Footlights and Fiction, which features many of my performing arts reviews, some reproduced with kind permission of Stage Whispers and others I've initiated myself.
I grew up in Melbourne, getting a large part of my education from a government school in the western suburbs that has since been closed. Luckily, and with a bit of hard work, I got the chance to finish Year 12 and go to uni before the school disappeared. I studied Journalism at RMIT, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in that field in the mid-1990s.
I went on to become a cadet reporter with Leader Newspapers, and was a northern suburbs newshound for more than three years with a variety of local papers within that group.
As a keen writer, I went back to RMIT and completed a Certificate IV in Professional Writing. I spent 18-months studying novel, short-story, poetry, and screenwriting, working with the most amazing professional writers, including novelist Antoni Jach, who remains a mentor and friend. A few years before this, I also had a great time studying acting in a night-time Foundation course at the Victorian College of the Arts, fulfilling a girlhood dream.
I returned to the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development at some point, working as a full-time Media Co-ordinator within the busy Media Unit for four years. Currently, I'm the State Public Relations and Media Advisor with The Smith Family, one of Australia's most-respected charities for children and young people.
I also love dancing, and have been learning how to tap dance for the past three years in weekly classes at a Melbourne tap academy. I've performed such numbers as 'Singing in the Rain' with my lovely tap colleagues in an end-of-year concert.
I'm a prolific theatre reviewer for the performing arts website/magazine, Stage Whispers.
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