WRITING/DIRECTING

WRITING/DIRECTING

Sally also runs a career in writing and directing alongside her acting work, and has successfully managed to do both in Australia and the UK.  

She began her work behind the camera as a producer at the first community television station in Victoria, MPTV (Mornington Peninsula Television), producing (and presenting) a weekly magazine lifestyle show for teenagers, as a teen herself, before moving onto professional work as a boom swinger & makeup assistant among other varied roles in film and television.  Her work as backstage crew in theatre began in the Lighting department on follow spot, where she could be found when not on stage herself for nearly three years.

In the mid-1990’s, Sally left for the UK to audition for drama school and instead ended up working at the BBC for a few years in production and research roles.  Eventually she accepted a place at The Actors’ Institute, where she graduated with a Degree in Drama, then promptly returned to the BBC for just over a year before returning to Australia.

It was during her last stint at the BBC that Sally first began writing for the stage and screen, as well as producing and directing her own work – usually also appearing as an actor.  She has to date written, directed and/or produced a collection of short films, short features, plays, TV pilots, short documentaries, a feature length documentary and now two web series.

Sally has also worked as the General Manager of Melbourne WebFest (one of the original five web fests globally and the largest web fest in the Southern Hemisphere) and was the Founder and Festival Director of Shorts Relief: Flicks For The Fires founded in 2020 – a charity short film and web fest initially founded to raise money for Bushfire relief.

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING

SERIES

Till The Boys Come Home

Creator/Writer
As Incognita Enterprises
Format: 4k
Length: 20 x 10 mins/4 x 50 mins
Genre: Drama
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Status: In Development

Shakespeare Republic: #GodsAndMonsters (Season Four)

Creator/Writer/ Director/Producer
As Incognita Enterprises
Format: 4k
Length: 18 x 5 mins/3 x 30 mins/1 x 90 mins
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Status: In Development
Website: 
www.shakespearerepublic.com

Dark Arcadia (2024)

Creator/ Writer/ Director/Producer
As Incognita Enterprises
Format: 4k
Length: 3 x 7 mins/1 x 21 mins
Genre: Drama
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Status: In Post-Production
Website: 
www.darkarcadia.com

Walking Shadows Vol. 3 (2024)

Creator/Writer/ Director/Producer
As Incognita Enterprises
(Commissioned by Howard Fine Acting Studio Australia)
Format: 2k
Length: 10 x 5 mins
Genre: Drama
Location: Melbourne (Australia)
Status: Pre-Production
Website: 
www.walkingshadows.com.au

Walking Shadows Vol. 2 (2023)

Creator/Writer/ Director/Producer
As Incognita Enterprises
(Commissioned by Howard Fine Acting Studio Australia)
Format: 2k
Length: 10 x 5 mins
Genre: Drama
Location: Melbourne (Australia)
Status: Completed
Website: 
www.walkingshadows.com.au

Walking Shadows Vol. 1 (2022)

Creator/Writer/ Director/Producer
As Incognita Enterprises (Commissioned by Howard Fine Acting Studio Australia)
Format: Smartphone
Length: 22 x 5 mins
Genre: Drama
Location: Melbourne (Australia)
Status: Completed
Website: 
www.walkingshadows.com.au

Shakespeare Republic: #AllTheWebsAStage (2020)

Creator/Writer/ Director/Producer
As Incognita Enterprises
Format: Smartphone
Length: 24 x 5 mins
Genre: Drama
Location:  Australia, England, Scotland, USA
Status: Completed
Website: 
www.shakespearerepublic.com

Shakespeare Republic: #LoveTheBard (Season Two) (2017)

Creator/Writer/ Director/Producer
As Incognita Enterprises
Format: 4k
Length: 13 x 5 mins
Genre: Drama
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Status: Completed
Website: 
www.shakespearerepublic.com

Shakespeare Republic (Season One) (2016)

Creator/Writer/ Director/Producer
As Incognita Enterprises
Format: 2k
Length: 6 x 5 mins
Genre: Drama
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Status: Completed
Website: 
www.shakespearerepublic.com

D.A.T.E. Me (2009) (Pilot)

Creator/Writer/ Director/ Producer/Camera
For NeON Films, Sydney, Australia
Format: MiniDV
Length: 6 x 3mins
Genre: Comedy
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Status: Completed

FILM

Dalny

Writer
As Incognita Enterprises
Format: 4k
Length: 110mins
Genre: Drama/Action/Fantasy
Location: TBA
Status: In Development

Champion

Writer/Director/Co-Producer
As Incognita Enterprises
Format: 4k
Length: 110mins
Genre: Documentary
Location: Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane & Gold Coast (Australia), London & Oxford (UK), Vienna (Austria)
Status: In Production
Website: 
www.thechampiondocumentary.com

Speaking Daggers (2017)

Writer/Director/Producer
As Incognita Enterprises (Commissioned by Independent Schools Victoria)
Format: 4k
Length: 11.35 mins
Genre: Drama
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Status: Completed
Website:
www.speakingdaggers.com

O, Mistress Mine (Music Video) (2017)

Writer/Director/Producer
As Incognita Enterprises
Music by Jaron Natoli
Format: 4k
Length: 3.42 mins
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Status: Completed
Website: http://speakingdaggers.com/
music-video/

Why Must The Show Go On? (2010)

Co-Writer/Executive Producer
As Incognita Enterprises with Cinema Viscera
Director: Paul Anthony Nelson
Format: HD
Length: 25 mins
Genre: Comedy
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Status: Completed
More info: Incognita Enterprises

Brigit & Benny (A Modern Faerietale) (2005)

Writer/Producer/Director As Incognita Enterprises
Format: miniDV
Length: 8 mins
Genre: Fantasy
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Status: Completed
Screened: Aurora TV
More info: Incognita Enterprises

fixNATION (2004)

Writer/Producer/DirectorAs Incognita Enterprises
Format: miniDV
Length: 7 mins
Genre: Silent
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Status: Completed
Screened: Foxtel Australia
More info: Incognita Enterprises

The Giant, The Witch & The Waterhorse (2001)

Writer/Director/Producer/Camera
For Ross Of Mull Historical Society, Scotland
Format: MiniDV
Length: 25 mins
Genre: Documentary
Location: Scotland, UK
Status: Completed
More Info: Incognita Enterprises

Gyuto Monks: An Australian Awakening (2000)

Writer/Director/Camera
For Gyuto House Australia
Format: miniDV
Length: 20 mins
Genre: Documentary
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Status: Completed
More Info: Incognita Enterprises

A Little Rain Must Fall (1997)

Co-Writer/Co-Producer
As Incognita Enterprises
Director: Dennis Morrison
Format: miniDV
Length: 43 mins
Genre: Drama
Location: London, UK
Status: Completed
Selected (non-competition): Cannes Film Festival
Website: 
www.alittlerainmustfall.com

THEATRE

This Wooden ‘O’

Writer/Director/Producer
As Incognita Enterprises
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Length: 120 mins
Status: In Development

Bayonets & Bully Beef

Writer
As Incognita Enterprises
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Length: 90 mins
Status: Early Script Development

Love Letters To My Gran

Writer
As Incognita Enterprises
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Length: 60 mins
Status: Early Script Development

Till The Boys Come Home

Writer
As Incognita Enterprises
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Length: 90 mins
Status: Final Development

Chasing Pegasus (2019)

Writer/Director/Producer
As Incognita Enterprises
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Length: 75 mins
Status: Competed & Performed
Venue: Howard Fine Acting Studio Australia
Website:
www.chasingpegasus.net

Chasing Pegasus (2006)

Writer/Director/Producer
As Incognita Enterprises
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Length: 75 mins
Status: Competed & Performed
Venue/s: Gasworks Arts Park & Mt Martha House
Festival/s: Melbourne Fringe Festival/Victorian Seniors Festival
Website:
www.chasingpegasus.net

PS I Love You (2004) (workshop performance)

Writer/Director/Producer
As Incognita Enterprises
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Length: 90 mins
Status: Completed & Performed
Venue: Mt Martha House

OTHER PRODUCTION WORK SUMMARY

Australian TV Programs worked on in Production roles

1 VS 100 (Series 1) (Australia)
Australian Idol
X-Factor Australia (Series 1)
Big Brother: Hunt for a Housemate
Comedy Inc. (Seasons 1 & 2)

Production companies worked for
BBC TV Productions worked on in Production roles

Bookmark
One Foot In The Past
Poetry Nation
Bard On The Box
The History of British Art
Sister Wendy
Robert Hughes American Visions
Bookworm

PUBLISHED WORKS

Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations (Book)

Contributor (Chapter)
Editors: Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie
Publisher: Routledge USA
Published: May 2020
More info: https://www.routledge.com/Playfulness-in-Shakespearean-Adaptations/Gerzic-Norrie/p/book/9780367256463

Talking With Myself: a collection of poetical monologues

Author/Illustrator
Paperback
ISBN-10: 1453805613
ISBN-13: 978-1453805619
Publisher: CreateSpace (USA)
Published: 2014
More info: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/talking-with-myself-sally-mclean/1120433933

O For A Muse Of Fire: Quotes On Acting From Pioneers Of The Stage

Author/Illustrator
ISBN-10: 1502517736
ISBN-13: 978-1502517739
Publisher: CreateSpace (USA)
Published: 2014
More info: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/o-for-a-muse-of-fire-sally-mclean/1120677180

Chasing Pegasus: (a play in ten chords)

Author
Paperback
ISBN-10: 1453767878
ISBN-13: 978-1453767870
Publisher: CreateSpace (USA)
Published: 2010
More info: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/chasing-pegasus-sally-mclean/1028994183

Innovation and Enterprise: A history of Backwell IXL 1858-2008

Editor
Author: GA McLean
Paperback
ISBN-10: 0646489216
ISBN-13: 9780646489216
Publisher: Blackwell IXL/Deakin University (Australia)
Published: 2008
More info: https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4327994

Memories of the Millennium

Contributor (Poetry)
Editor: Howard Ely
Paperback
ISBN-10: 1582352623
ISBN-13: 9781582352626
Publisher: Owings Mills (USA)
Published: 2001

In-Between Days

Contributor (Poetry)
Editor: Alyssa R Stokes-Reinhardt
Paperback
ISBN-10: 1582351414
ISBN-13: 9781582351414
Publisher: J. Franz (USA)
Published: 2000

A Lasting Calm

Contributor (Poetry)
Editor: Joy L Esterby
Paperback
ISBN-10: 1575534495
ISBB-13: 9781575534497
Publisher: Sittingbourne (UK)
Published: 1997

NOTES ON SALLY'S CREATIVE WRITING CAREER

In addition to being a screenwriter and playwright, Sally has also been a poet for most of her adult life, penning her first poem – “Lights, Camera, Action” at the age of fifteen, which won her first place in a local newspaper literary competition.

Since then, she has been regularly published in various poetry and short fiction anthologies and magazines in Australia, the USA, Canada and the UK, including the anthologies In-Between Days (USA), A Lasting Calm (UK),  Tide of Hours (USA) and Millennium Moments  (USA/UK) and the literary periodicals Images Inscript  (USA), Waxing & Waning (Canada), Celtic Fiction (USA) and Poetry DownUnder  (Australia).  She was one of ten featured poets, and the only Australian, selected for The Sounds of Poetry an audio presentation of poets selected from across the world and was named in the international Who’s Who of Poetry for 2004.

To see more about Sally’s contributions to Poetry & Short Fiction anthologies over the years, visit her Creative Writing site: FlareWithFlair.com

She is also an author and book editor. 

PRODUCTION COMPANY INFORMATION

INCOGNITA ENTERPRISES

Owner/Director
Hon. Patron: Sir Nigel Hawthorne KB, CBE (1929-2001)
Website: www.incognitaenterprises.com