'The Land Of Other Living' (Short Children’s Film) 1999

The story of a young girl called Poppy, who has a rather outlandish imagination. She falls asleep one night and wakes up in the Land of Other Living, an adventure begins and she is sent on a quest to free the beautiful princess Elena Swan and stop the wicked witch from turning the rest of the land evil, with her wicked sorcery. She meets a few friends that are willing to lend a helping hand along the way, including a tropical fish with large feet and a robot called Zeeco. This short film showed how I had progressed with my filming and my use of clay rather than plastercine for the characters.


'The Hell Block H' (Comedy Series) 1998

Still feeling I hadn’t quiet put a lid on the comedy ‘The Hell Block H Series’ I decided to make a puppet series and film each episode. I made all the sets of the prison and all the inmates and wardens. A few friends helped with the voice overs.


Glyndebourne Opera House (props department) 1997

Having played my acting role as one of Oberon’s elves in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ back in 1988, I ventured behind the scenes at the props department for the Glyndebourne Opera House, asking to help them out for a few weeks. I made pigeons out of polystyrene blocks and huge life size trees for the stage.


'Matilda' (series) 1996

This was a spin-off series to 'Smelly Ann'. Ann had a child which she named Matilda. Matilda is the main character and continues in her Mother’s footsteps. The characters were made from plastercine and the sets were made from cardboard.


Penny Rose (Comedy Sketch Character) 1996-2003

Penny Rose was a comedy character I created and played the role. She was in the public eye for her fashion design and having gate-crashed many celebrity bashes, sweeping up more names than drinking the champagne. Penny loves to promote new fashion accessories. She also has a mystical side to her, it’s not too long before viewers realise she’s become famous for being absolutely potty, she’s become a fashion icon for literally throwing anything on and having the nerve to parade it in front of the media.

She can’t string a sentence together and the media have begun to make a clown of her, which she plays to perfection. Don’t get her started on names of types of stones and crystals or makes of watches, or you’ll be stuck with her all day.


'The Hell Block H' (Fanzine) 1995

Named after the Australian cult television series ‘Prisoner: Cell Block H’, The Hell Block H was a monthly fanzine for the fans of the series. Its features included: G’day (the latest updates and news page), Star profiles, episode guides, Interviews with the stars, prisoner and officer files, The Hell Block H Series’, Quizzes, Ask Daz page? (Where the fans could write in and ask me any question on the series).

I wrote The Hell Block H Series from 1995-2000 which consisted of 100 episodes of a comedy version of ‘Prisoner’, I felt that from a comedy angle there were so many areas to explore in a women’s prison so I did. I would later go on to make a series with the sets and puppets in the form of episodes.


'Smelly Ann' (series) 1994

'Smelly Ann' was a series I wrote in 1994 about a deprived child with an alcoholic Mother. She was always getting herself in trouble and her Mother and Father often beat her as a punishment. The series was recorded on a hi8 camcorder. The characters were made from plastercine. Smelly Ann was my first attempt of writing my own series. The idea came to me, after finishing my own alternative version and ending of The Diary of Ann Frank in my English lessons at school. I had turned the story into a 1990’s video nasty, or so my teacher stated and marked my story a 10/10 for effort.


'A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM' (Shakespeare) 1988

This was my first acting role. I was one of Oberon’s elves in Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at the Glyndebourne Opera House.