ABOUT me

People always ask me what I do and I either go way too big picture or way too detailed. Either way, there’s more to me than that.

So I made this website as a space to hold all the things that I do, think, love and experience; as a place of expressing all of me, rather than an edited version; as a place of abundance rather than limitation. 

I am a creative and I want to celebrate all that that entails in a meaningful, contextual, highly relevant way. 

I am a work in progress.

I am a menopausal mother, sister, friend, aunt, actor, writer, singer navigating the arts, the corporate world, the philanthropic world, marriage, separation and therapy.  

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MY STORY

MY STORY

I lived in South Africa for 45 years before I immigrated to New Zealand. 

I lie.

I lived one glorious year of those 45 years in Paris and Rome. 

I lived in South Africa for 44 years before I immigrated to New Zealand. 

44 years of living in a dynamic, stressful, complex, creative, traumatised, deeply connected country. 44 years of living in survival mode. (It is the most life-affirming state. )

In South Africa, in Johannesburg in particular,

  • I was a successful actor, storyliner, scriptwriter and voice over artist

  • I had never been hijacked

  • I had twins after being told that I was infertile

I am, if nothing else, resilient: I defied the odds and thrived despite…as do most South Africans.

I arrived in New Zealand eager to continue defying and thriving. A decade in, I have done neither. 

It’s hard to defy odds when you can’t define them. It’s hard to thrive when there appears to be no “despite”. 

Things in New Zealand are mercurial. Africa’s element is hard, red earth. New Zealand’s element is water. One is undeniably solid, the other, literally, liquid. 

A decade: 10 years of using my acting skills to decipher which character I should be to assimilate best in this country. 10 years of trying to find myself in context in this very foreign land.

In the end, it turns out it doesn’t matter; what matters is me defining me, in the context of me. 

What a privilege it has turned out to be; made all the richer by your company.