THE SHADOWS IN THE WALLS - ICKLEPIX - CURRENT - SHORT FILM -10 MINUTES DURATION

A film about a boy and Laurel and Hardy.

JUNK YARD DEMON - ICKLEPIX - 2008 - CURRENT - SHORT FILM - 5 MINUTES DURATION

Fan film made for fun based loosely on a comic.

THE RAGE - ICKLEPIX - 2008 - CURRENT - SHORT FILM - 15 MINUTES DURATION

The Rage is my current project and is a self funded endeavour to make a first film. I'll write more once complete but as is it's in post production and all is going VERY well indeed. Watch out for this, it will be shown for free on the internet once complete.

PETER PAN - Citizen's Theatre Company - 2007

I was assistant director and fight director on this enormously successful show. Jeremy raisen directed with a wonderful cast. The show ran for 7 weeks and rehearsed over 4. The Citizen's Theatre is a place I'd happily work in at any opportunity. It's where I used to go to see REAL theatre when I was at school.

HIS DARK MATERIALS - Scottish Youth Theatre - 2007

You could never accuse Scottish Youth theatre of having only limited ambition. This monster project was a re staging of the National Theatre's adaptation of Philip Pullman's three books, staged in it's entirety on the Citizens' Theatre main stage in July of 2007. I directed part two of the project with and entirely different cash from part one which was directed by SYT's artistic director Mary McCluskey.  This was enormous fun to work on and we had a great time in the rehearsal room, but was frought with technical difficulties come the performance. that aside this was an immensely successful re staging with a supremely talented cast and crew of young people. I's name names but it would be soooo unfair. Look up SYT on the net and send them a cheque. They need your support!

ALL ABOUT LOVE - 1ST STAGE - 2006 and ongoing.

This was part 1 of a three stage feature film development which I began in January 2006. I worked with seven professional actors for one week, workshopping ideas and characters based on research around the theme All About Love. This way of working I have used several times in the theatre where devised productions are commonplace. This is my first attempt to transfer this way of working to my film work. If all goes well there should be a further week long script development later in the year, then shooting of test footage and subsequently actual shooting as a low budget independent on Broadcast standard DV.

THE SNOW QUEEN - Scottish Youth Theatre 2005

Summer Festival show written by Stuart Paterson, and designed by Hayley Bennet. Performed on the main stage at the Citizen's Theatre.

SONS AND DAUGHTERS - FOSTERING NETWORK 2005

This was a short film about the sons and daughters of foster carers that have to learn to live with the changes that becoming a foster family brings. A training film. Pictured below.

FOSTER CARE - FOSTERING NETWORK 2005

Like the film above this was a training film focussing on the constant changes of environment that children in foster care experience and how this can affect their outlook on life.

FAIRYTALE - Scottish Youth Theatre 2004 (Pictured Below)

This was the second devised piece which I've put together for SYT's summer festival. Following on the success of last years  Waking Shadows, this years cast put together a show, which performed at the Tramway Theatre in Glasgow during the summer of 2004. The show followed the life and thoughts of a girl who's little sister one day just disappeared and was never found again. Searching through her distorted memories of a childhood filled with fairytales she tried to come to terms with the loss of her sister. Following a white rabbit she saw glimpses of her sister through her memories of the fairytales they once read together, but had lost their magic over the years. The memories took her further from the real world and deeper into a distorted fairytale, where Snow White had lost her handsome prince and become a wicked schoolteacher who ruled with a cane over the 7 school children she found in the woods, where three little pigs were neds that just wanted to cadge a fag and bully her, and where all her childhood heroines were now old women in a smoky bingo hall, trying to win a kiss from a lost prince, that long ago came to terms with the loss of his own love Snow White. As if to prove that fairytales and reality are not so far apart, she made peace with her own, not so wicked stepmother, and finally learned to morn the loss of her sister. This was a nice, piece, surprisingly exciting and bizarre and at the same time intelligent and witty. It was very well received and another good summer show in the bank.

THE LOVE ADVENTURES OF MR GEORGE COCHRANE - ROWAN TREE THEATRE COMPANY 2004

I was asked to direct this at relatively short notice for Rowan Tree early in 2004. It proved to be an excellent little show with a great cast. It was a nice wee romantic farce with fellow QMC associate Sean Kane in the title role supported by Kate Moss Jones, Mathew Burgess and Michael Mackenzie (Of Tarot - ace of wands fame). I'll do my best to get a pic up here and maybe even a copy of the excellent review.

SMOKING WITH LULU - CITIZENS THEATRE COMPANY 2004 - ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Again assisting Kenny Miller on this show based on literary critic Kenneth Tynan's meetings with 20's screen icon Louise Brooks. While in the real world they smoke and tell stories of their own lives, Kennneth Tynan's sexual fantasies are played out by another acrtress as Louise's on screen character LULU.

SNOW WHITE - Citizens Theatre Company 2003 - Assistant Director

As assistant to Kenny Miller I worked beside him on the main production and oversaw the understudy rehearsals and the maintenance of the show during the four week run. Kenny's SNOW WHITE was dark and stylish, un-patronising and with truly pop culture appeal.

WAKING SHADOWS - Scottish Youth Theatre 2003

"Every night we walk the corridors of our mind." This is the fourth year in which I've directed for Scottish Youth theatre. It is to be performed in the Citizens Stalls Studio in August. This is a devised piece with minimal budget based on the fact and fiction surrounding the world of dreams. and nightmares.

THE CHEVIOT, THE STAG AND THE BLACK BLACK OIL - 2002 Scottish Youth Theatre

The play that made John McGrath and 7:84 was a pleasure to stage. We toured community venues in Glasgow as part of SYT's summer Festival. The Herald said, "clever", humorous", "The ensemble acting is impressive." and ". this exuberant and captivating staging proves that the socialist beliefs of the play still have the power to provoke and enrage." A great cast and crew, and a lot of hard work really paid off on this project.

THE KEY TO TIME - Winter Festival - 2001 SYT Productions

As with winter festival 2000, this project had 600 participants, was devised with semi-professional actors who performed a main plot line and took place at the SECC. A witch is stealing light from every point in time, and when a Time traveller lands in Sam and Andrew's bedroom they realise that it is they alone that must save the world. Nay the universe.

GEAP - 2001 SYT/ Greater Easterhouse Development Trust

I was one of three directors working in the community producing tailor made theatre pieces to suit the group. Shows included The Jabberwock by Lewis Carroll and the boy with nails in his eyes by Tim Burton.

MERLIN, THE WILD BOY - 2001 Scottish Youth Theatre

This unusual slant on the myths of King Arthur is told through the eyes Merlin, shown not as an old man, but as a boy. In my second year directing for Scottish Youth Theatre, the Sunday Mail described this production, which I also designed, as ".one of the best productions on the Scottish stage this year."

GOING OUT, GETTING SERIOUS - 2001 Inter-Act

Outstanding "forum" theatre production tackling teenage relationships. Direction included devising the piece with three professional actors, and fronting the tour as part of a facilitation team. Inter-Act are doing great work in the Stirling area, led by Tom Houston.

ANGELS AND FAIRYDUST - Winter Festival - 2000 SYT Productions

Large scale event with 600 participants. Devising and directing a show with 8 young actors which contained 4 slots which the 600 performers would slot into, over 6 performances at the SECC. An Angel falls from grace and has to "quantum leap" into the body of four mortals, monsters or beings and perform a good deed to win back her wings. Death tries everything he can to stop her in this quiz show from hell, but winning Who Wants To Save A Million Souls? assures her a place upstairs. Songs and frolics in this seasonal treat!

TALL TALES AND SMALL WONDERS - 2000 Scottish Youth Theatre

Gerry Mulgrew's off the wall travelling tales brilliantly illustrated by rich text and performances. Really great little show with outstanding reviews. Giant babies, ruthless kilted maniacs and a lollipop world of rhyme without reason, topped by the beautiful story of the Hunchback and the Swan. Citizens Circle Studio.

GOVAN FAIR - 2000 Fablevision Outdoor event

Extremely low, low budget event which didn't reach full strength due to lack of funds. Funds would have fortified a community grounding in the weeks leading up to the event. Loosely based on an earlier theme of WW2 home front characters.

FESTIVAL OF LIGHT - 1999 Fablevision Outdoor event

Dramatic action on the village green at the end of a short parade route. A carpenter outwits Vikings, defeats giant moving spider fire sculptures and battles with evil in a sword fight against an army of mirrors.

GOVAN FAIR - 1999 Fablevision Outdoor event

Classic Govan myths and Legends including St. Mungo, The sheep and the students a cat VERY fond of rats.

STIRLING FIRE FESTIVAL - 1999 Fablevision Outdoor event

Mayday parade passing by several pieces of "action" on route. Starting the parade is a giant puppet of Death. On a signal his cloak lifts up becoming a crow and Death begins to dance. He leads the parade down hill past two groups of dancers, one group enacting a mummers play and another, around the Maypole. As the parade nears the green, the audience have to pass by a troll guarding the bridge. (extremely low budget)

Lochgilphead FIRE FESTIVAL - 1998

Fablevision Outdoor event based on the legends that surround St. Columba. He tames the Loch Ness monster (a 30 feet long lamp puppet with 7 operators), saves a man from certain death at the hands of a giant whale, beats a wizard at his own game and sends two giant flaming demons back to hell. People from the community ranging from 3 year olds, through to Police officers, operatic society members, disabled actors, youth theatre performers and young offenders performed in all of these events. Each event had a professional crew ranging from just myself in some cases to over 30 professional staff for the larger events. As director I was expected to mediate and co-ordinate either a smaller section of the event or the entire piece. All of the events including Gerry Mulgrew's Tall Tales were at least in part, devised.