WHO, WHAT, HUH?

I am drawn to stories of those who live on the margins and to the small miracles they bring into everyday life—people who are somehow broken, yet never give up on their dreams. I am also fascinated by stories that touch on the supernatural. Do such things exist? I don’t know—but it would be great if they did..

I have studied film and theatre directing in Finland, England, and Australia. My postgraduate studies include a Master’s degree in Theatre Directing from East 15 Acting School in London, as well as a qualification as an acting teacher from the Drama School of the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. My teachers have included Lindy Davies, John Adams, Stephen Jeffreys, Max Stafford-Clark, Jon Sanders, and Ken Russell. Since completing my studies, I have worked as a director in Finland, the UK, and Denmark.

My directing work is rooted in performance, but visual language and sound design play an equally important role in my productions. My aim is always to create a compelling world from the text—to go beneath the surface and reveal what lies hidden within the words. In the text, I seek emotion, poetry, and metaphysics. I believe a performance should transform the human experience by breaking boundaries, dismantling conventions, and searching for the core of things. Theatre and film is a work of art, and it must be more than just talking heads. It must be a collaboration of image, sound, movement, space, and language.

Working with creativity and creative people is the spice of my life — salt, sugar, curry, pepper, and at times burning chili. My sources of inspiration include, among others, Caryl Churchill, Amy Winehouse, Sally Wainwright, Pina Bausch, Shonda Rhimes, Robert Wilson, René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, Tuomari Nurmio, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Jean-Luc Godard, and François Truffaut.

This website works as my portfolio.