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 Writer/Director Biography - Sally McLean
A graduate of The Actors' Institute,
London (UK), Sally now wears several hats, which include the
titles of actor, director, producer and writer.
Her television acting credits
include The Bookworm, The 80's and the mini-series Bootleg
for BBC Television, Blue Heelers, Neighbours, Comedy Inc.,
The Late Show, Bingles and Totally Full Frontal for
Australian TV, as well as numerous short films and over fifty
theatre productions in both Australia and the UK.
Theatre highlights include
"King Duncan/Seyton" in Macbeth, "Queen
Gertrude" in Hamlet, "Marlene" in Top
Girls, and the lead roles of "Jill" in the World
Premier of Annabel's Requiem on London's West End and
"Woman One" in the Australian premier of I Love
You, You're Perfect, Now Change at the Athenaeum Theatre,
Melbourne.
While already being an internationally
published poet and short fiction writer, her foray into writing
for performance began when she created her own feature film production
outfit, Salmac Productions, under the patronage of respected
British actor, Sir Nigel Hawthorne in the late 1990's. Under
the umbrella of Salmac, she co-produced and co-wrote the UK feature
film A Little Rain Must Fall (invited to screen at the
Cannes Film Festival), as well as writing, producing and directing
the short films fixNATION (2004) and Brigit & Benny
(a modern faerietale) (2005). Sally branched out into the
area of writing, directing and producing for the theatre with
her first play Chasing Pegasus - A Play In Ten Chords,
staged in December 2003/January 2004. She followed this with
PS I Love You, exploring women's roles on the home front
in Melbourne during WWII, which made it's first workshop appearance
on the stage in July/August 2004.
Sally has also worked in production
with the BBC in both their Music & Arts and Commercial Channels
Depts., on program strands such as Bookmark, Bard On The Box
and Poetry Nation, during which time she Chaired the BBC
Alternative Program Development Unit, submitting several
successful television program proposals to the Controllers of
BBC1 & 2, three of which have since been developed into series
for BBC2.
Sally is currently distracting
herself with three more screenplays Forever (currently
under financing with distribution attached), Eating the Lotus
and 1956, as well as completing her next play Bayonets
& Bully Beef (the companion work to PS I Love You)
- exploring women's roles on the battle front during WWII.
Oh, and she's still working
as an actor … due to appear onstage as "The Invisible
Woman" in Phrankly Theatre's production of The Auxiliary
in September/October 2005, as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival.
For more information visit her online at http://www.sallymclean.com
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