Sally began her work behind the camera as a producer at the first community television station in Victoria, MPTV (Mornington Peninsula Television), producing and presenting on camera 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 for nearly three years.

She eventually left for the UK to audition for drama school, taking a slight detour to work at the BBC for a few years in production and research roles. Eventually she accepted a place at The Actors’ Institute, London, where she graduated with a Degree in Drama and began her Masters in Drama and Education (in conjunction with The Open University, UK), then returning to the BBC for just over a year, running her acting career alongside her production work, before returning to Australia.

Sally then became Creative Director of Incognita Enterprises, which she founded under the Honorary Patronage of the late Sir Nigel Hawthorne KB, CBE (1929-2001). Under the banner of Incognita, she has written, directed and/or produced numerous short films and short features, plays, TV pilots, short documentaries, web series and a full length feature documentary (currently in post-production). For the past decade, she has been creator/director for the multi award-winning and critically acclaimed Shakespeare Republic universe of projects, featuring actors such as Nadine Garner, Michala Banas, Alan Fletcher, Scott Major, Christopher Kirby, Dean Haglund and more.

Her “day jobs” have included working as Assistant Director for the professional Australian Premiere of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change at the Athenaeum Theatre, while also taking the role of Female Swing for the production (eventually taking over from Julia Morris in the main cast two nights a week), working in event management with award-winning events company Emjay Events producing events for Moomba, Senior Citizens’ Week and others at venues such as the Royal Exhibition Buildings in Carlton and the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, being the General Manager of Melbourne WebFest (one of the original five web fests globally and the largest web fest in the Southern Hemisphere), being the Founding Chairman and Executive Producer of independent theatre company North of Eight and being the Founder and Festival Director of Shorts Relief: Flicks For The Fires founded in 2020 – a charity short film and web fest held at the Capitol Theatre, Melbourne she initially founded to raise money for Wildlife Victoria’s Bushfire relief fund.

The full list of Sally’s projects and events produced to date can be found on her production business website here: www.incognitaenterprises.com