↠ Portrait by Tamara Dean 2018 ↠
Lâle grew up in Blue Mountains NSW before residing in Sydney for twelve years where she completed writing courses at Australian Writers' Centre & Centre for Continuing Education at Sydney University. Lâle is also a graduate of Actor’s College of Theatre & Television (now AFTT) class of 2008, NIDA part time acting ensemble program 2012, and Design Centre Enmore 2011.
Lâle recently won the 2019 Australian Writers' Guild Monte Miller Award for her short pilot script The Black Tulip and is currently writing the rest of the series funded by Scripted Ink. Limited. The script also won Best Short Script at Florence Film Awards 2019. Lâle's online series pilot script Blue Mountain won Best Sci-Fi Screenplay in Los Angeles Film Awards 2018 which is an IMDB accredited festival, and Best Short Screenplay in Red Carpet Film Awards NYC, 2018. The script was also in the official selection of Rome Prisma Awards 2018 and the semi-finals of the Los Angeles Cinefest 2019.
Lâle is in development stages on an anthology of short films with actor and writer Damian de Montemas. They have received script mentorship from award winning writer/director Rachel Ward (Beautiful Kate, Palm Beach) on their pilot script The Water Lily inspired by the Henry Lawson poem of the same name.
Lâle's first short film script The Palace That I Live In was produced in 2013 and had its world premiere at Palm Springs International Short Fest 2014. The film has also screened in NYC Independent Film Festival 2015, Edinburgh Short Film Festival in 2015, & Tasmania Breath Of Fresh Air Film Festival 2016. The film was directed by Aimèe-Lee X. Curran and featured Hunter Page Lochard (Cleverman) , herself, and her real life mother Diana Jeffrey.
Lâle played a recurring role in Matilda Brown’s series ‘Lessons From The Grave,' which screened on ABC in 2013 and 2014, and Foxtel’s ‘Let’s Talk About’ featuring Matilda and Bryan Brown, Rick Davies, Sam Neill, & Andrea Demetriades in 2016 and 2017. Lâle also designed the costumes for both series and styles for commercials, music videos, and designed the costumes for 38 stories of Deadly Women season 9 & 10 for Beyond Productions.
Lâle is also developing her writing practice in stage play, essay, and prose. She is currently working on her first play titled Still Chaos With Dog. A triptych of her poetry is published in Escape Artists Advanced Party by Borderstream Books and Arts Features International, Issue 1, Winter 2018, ‘Escape Artists Anthology’ as well as an essay The Heroine’s Journey: Women On Solo Expeditions Through Film, which was first published on the Woman and Film website in 2018.
In March 2016 Lâle founded River Run Productions. where she has produced and sometimes directed several music videos for some of Australia's leading bands including 'Deja Vu' and 'All I See Is Music' for Aria Award winning Thundamentals both directed by Aimee-Lee X. Curran.
Lâle recently won the 2019 Australian Writers' Guild Monte Miller Award for her short pilot script The Black Tulip and is currently writing the rest of the series funded by Scripted Ink. Limited. The script also won Best Short Script at Florence Film Awards 2019. Lâle's online series pilot script Blue Mountain won Best Sci-Fi Screenplay in Los Angeles Film Awards 2018 which is an IMDB accredited festival, and Best Short Screenplay in Red Carpet Film Awards NYC, 2018. The script was also in the official selection of Rome Prisma Awards 2018 and the semi-finals of the Los Angeles Cinefest 2019.
Lâle is in development stages on an anthology of short films with actor and writer Damian de Montemas. They have received script mentorship from award winning writer/director Rachel Ward (Beautiful Kate, Palm Beach) on their pilot script The Water Lily inspired by the Henry Lawson poem of the same name.
Lâle's first short film script The Palace That I Live In was produced in 2013 and had its world premiere at Palm Springs International Short Fest 2014. The film has also screened in NYC Independent Film Festival 2015, Edinburgh Short Film Festival in 2015, & Tasmania Breath Of Fresh Air Film Festival 2016. The film was directed by Aimèe-Lee X. Curran and featured Hunter Page Lochard (Cleverman) , herself, and her real life mother Diana Jeffrey.
Lâle played a recurring role in Matilda Brown’s series ‘Lessons From The Grave,' which screened on ABC in 2013 and 2014, and Foxtel’s ‘Let’s Talk About’ featuring Matilda and Bryan Brown, Rick Davies, Sam Neill, & Andrea Demetriades in 2016 and 2017. Lâle also designed the costumes for both series and styles for commercials, music videos, and designed the costumes for 38 stories of Deadly Women season 9 & 10 for Beyond Productions.
Lâle is also developing her writing practice in stage play, essay, and prose. She is currently working on her first play titled Still Chaos With Dog. A triptych of her poetry is published in Escape Artists Advanced Party by Borderstream Books and Arts Features International, Issue 1, Winter 2018, ‘Escape Artists Anthology’ as well as an essay The Heroine’s Journey: Women On Solo Expeditions Through Film, which was first published on the Woman and Film website in 2018.
In March 2016 Lâle founded River Run Productions. where she has produced and sometimes directed several music videos for some of Australia's leading bands including 'Deja Vu' and 'All I See Is Music' for Aria Award winning Thundamentals both directed by Aimee-Lee X. Curran.
