A dyslexic writer from New Zealand

About

Hello dear interneter.

Welcome to my website. Unfortunately, it’s exactly that: a website. I can’t offer you a drink, take your coat or tell you there’s nuts in it when it’s far too late.

But I can show you some work and tell you a little about what it’s like to be a dyslexic writer. At times my spelling can look like a bowl of alphabet soup. Grammar nazis have done a Mike Tyson on my ears more than once. And after reading or writing for too long my brain feels like a block of cheddar.

So rest assured, it will always bother me far more than it will ever bother you.

I’ve spent nearly one third of my life at Wieden + Kennedy working as an advertising creative, primarily on Nike. Aside from that, I have experience working with clients such as Samsung, Instagram, Facebook, AB Inbev, Montblanc, Heineken, S7 Airlines and Mondelez to name only just a few.

At the moment, I am finishing my first short film that I wrote and directed, produced by Arts & Sciences, and wielding a large and scary harpoon trying to haul in that mythical feature project.

Currently:

Freelance senior creative writer based in Amsterdam.

Previously:

Writer at Wieden + Kennedy, Amsterdam (between 2014-2024)

The Kennedys 2014 till forever.

Writer at DDB, New Zealand from 2012 to 2014.

Sandwich Artist at Subway Sandwiches one summer.

Awards and recognition:

Oscars Nicholl Fellowship Quarter-Finalist for Feature Screenplay.

Cannes Bronze x 1

Cannes Shortlist x 7

Webby Award x 2

D&AD Wood Pencil x 2

One Show Finalist x 6

Eurobest Gold x 1

Eurobest Bronze x 1

LIA Silver x 2

LIA Bronze x 1

Ciclope Bronze x 1

Effies Bronze x 1

Kinsale Silver x 1

Fast Company World Changing ideas Award Finalist x 1

I once had a piece of work that made a kid named Naam the coolest kid in school. His mum told us. And I think that’s the loveliest thing ever. 

Judging: 

Eurobest 2021. 

Shots 2021. 

Red Jolbors 2021.