Here’s a showreel I created for Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts graduate Virginia Lee. I’ve created heaps of showreels but this is definitely one of my favourites. Virginia is a great talent – versatile and natural on screen. Excited to see how her career progresses in coming years. Have a

I wrote the first draft of ‘Mess’ when I was seventeen, and shot it when I was 19. Over a decade later, I decided to remake it. It’s exciting to me that a few film festivals have deemed this experiment worthy of screening. ‘Mess’ (the new version) stars two of

It was only a few years ago when the idea of making from scratch scenes for a showreel was seen as a bad thing. This was back in the days when companies were rehashing scenes from movies and TV shows and shooting them in a rented office on the back

As the old saying goes: you can’t polish a turd. So many actors have gone wrong on their reels purely because of the material. Whether it’s stealing a scene from a show like ‘Doctors’*, or through writing (or getting someone to write) a scene that does not suit the needs

‘The Bad Defendant’ – Crime dramas are all the rage now. We’re used to seeing expert witnesses and manipulative suspects. Unfortunately, not everyone can be so smart. ‘Competitive Running’  -We all know someone like this. It’s even worse when they live in your neighbourhood – you literally can’t ignore them!

Two strangers out on the street only weeks before Facebook was invented. ROB Hello? ANYONE? BERT You okay? ROB I’ve taken a picture of my baby every day since she was born! BERT And? ROB Only my immediate family are interested. BERT That’s the way it’s supposed to be. ROB