About Me

I am a British born Afro-Caribbean actor (Actors Centre Australia 2010), writer, and singer who has lived in Sydney for more than a decade. I belong everywhere and nowhere. I have more privilege than many, and yet less than many, and I do my best to acknowledge that daily.

I am also a practicing psychologist working towards a Clinical PhD one clawing step at a time. 

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Most importantly, I am a storyteller. My greatest love is to tell stories to engage the soul - and help others navigate through and tell their own stories. You can often find me at twitch.tv/duerespite  or on Youtube telling emotion filled stories with people I trust.

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Acting

Spanning musical, classical, devised and previously unperformed works, I appeared most recently as Mrs Brown in The Book of Mormon (GFO), Gary Coleman in Avenue Q (Monsta); the Bell Shakespeare Players (2014) as Juliet, Ophelia and Lady Macduff; semi-devised performance Hero and Companion Piece (Glorious Thing), semi-biographical piece And Now To Bed (subtlenuance); How to Lose Sight (Shh.); A Quiet Night in Rangoon (subtlenuance); Rosalind in As You Like It (Siren Theatre Co.) and the title role of Antigone in London’s East End (Woodhouse Players). 

In film, I appeared as one of the children of the Harry Potter world in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Warner Bros.). 

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In 2021 I will be joining subtlenuance in the writing of a new play (watch this space), while continuing to write my own individual work.

Tabletop Roleplay

When not on stage or providing therapy, I am heavily involved in storytelling through Tabletop Roleplaying Games as a writer, streamer and roleplayer. My current loves are D&D, Savage Worlds, Dread, Vampire the Masquerade (V5 more than 20th) and The Land Whispers.

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I have a vested interest in the development of independent TTRPGs and love to play one-shots to experience new systems and new games. In 2019 I played around 8 new systems - the bulk of them indie games. While I didn't truly understand how mechanics affect storytelling at the beginning of that year - now I understand the vast ravine of difference between Dungeons and Dragons 5e and Enderwoods, the differences between Savage Worlds and Open Legend, and how a system can dictate the kind of story you'll tell.

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One more thing: I strongly believe that I have a voice, and I will use it to raise others up where I can. You can count on that.