Bio
WRITER
STAGE | SCREEN
Lâle is a writer and actress currently living and working on Gadigal land. Her creative writing practice includes screen, stage, and prose.
Lâle’s first original TV series, a family drama / comedy titled The Golden Ass has been optioned by Goalpost Pictures and is currently in early development. Her mystery thriller pilot script See Saw was recently short listed in the long format category for an Australian Writers’ Guild 2023 Monte Miller Award, and has also recently been optioned by Magpie Pictures. The script is now titled The Darkhorse and The Hummingbird.
Lâle was the 2021 NSW recipient of the inaugural SBS Emerging Writers’ Incubator and placed with Goalpost Pictures for 12 months, thanks also to Screen Australia and Screen NSW. Lâle worked across the Goalpost development slate, including working on location in the script department on Stan’s mystery series Black Snow as Script Assistant and Copywriter. Her time at Goalpost was extended through Screen NSW with a showrunner / producer’s attachment on Black Snow in 2022 and in 2023, Lâle was a contributing writer on one of Goalpost’s productions in development with NITV.
Lâle won the 2019 Australian Writers’ Guild Monte Miller Award for her pilot script The Black Tulip and was then inducted into the prestigious Australian Writers’ Guild Pathways featured writers. The pilot also won Best Short Script at the 2019 Florence Film Awards. Lâle drafted all six online episodes of The Black Tulip mystery series funded by Scripted Ink, who also sponsored her to work at Studiocanal Australia, writing coverage for the European Film Market, 2021.
Lâle’s dystopian pilot script Blue Mountain won Best Sci-Fi Screenplay at the Los Angeles Film Awards, 2018, and Best Short Screenplay at the 2018 Red Carpet Film Awards, NYC. The script was also in the official selection of Rome Prisma Awards, 2018, and the semi-finals of the Los Angeles Cinefest, 2019. Lâle made it to the interview stages for a 2023 Churchill Fellowship with her proposal to investigate development initiatives and pathways for diaspora writers.
Lâle’s magic realism screenplay The Palace That I Live In was produced in 2013 and had its world premiere at Palm Springs International ShortFest 2014. It featured Hunter Page-Lockard (Cleverman), her real-life mother, and herself. The film also screened in the NYC Independent Film Festival, Edinburgh Short Film Festival in 2015, and Tasmania Breath Of Fresh Air Film Festival, 2016. During her time touring with the film, Lâle was invited to be a judge for the Southeastern International Film Festival in Nashville, 2016.
A triptych of Lâle’s poetry is published in Escape Artists Advanced Party by Borderstream Books, and Arts Features International, Issue 1, Winter 2018, Escape Artists Anthology. Lâle’s essay The Heroine’s Journey: Women on Solo Expeditions through Film was published on the Women and Film website, California in January, 2018, before also being published in the above anthology. Lâle recently spent five weeks in France writing her first novel, a surreal literary fiction.
Previously, Lâle played a recurring acting role in both Matilda Brown’s series Lessons From The Grave with Bryan Brown, which screened on ABC and Presto, and Foxtel’s Let’s Talk About featuring Bryan Brown. Lâle also designed the costumes for both series. She has designed costumes for 38 episodes of Beyond Productions Deadly Women and has also acted in and styled numerous TV commercials, short films, online series, and music videos.
After working as a life drawing model for several years at Julian Ashton Art School and the Royal Art Society in Sydney, Lâle wrote the dark comedy stage play Still Chaos with Dog, which was inspired by three particular artists. The artists now call each other by their character names. Art mimics life, mimics art, and so on.
Lâle completed a BA double major in Creative Writing and English with Southern Cross University, 2021. Lâle is a graduate of the Actors’ College of Theatre & Television, 2008, with an Advanced Diploma of Stage and Screen Practice. Lâle also completed a Cert IV at Design Centre Enmore, 2010, and was a member of the NIDA Actors Ensemble open program, 2013.
Lâle began her career as a stage actress, aged 13, in a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Everglades Garden amphitheatre in the Blue Mountains NSW.