July 2026 Creator Diary (Patreon)

Hello lovely Patrons!

I'm starting a new practice where I document my various creative projects month by month, to keep you all updated and have a record of it.

PHILOSOPHY TUBEI've now banked six scripts for the next season, which is awesome! I'd like to get a few more in the bag over the summer. I'm excited to play with format and length: some are longer, some are in the 10-15 minute range. Most of them have been fairly easy lifts on the research side; I have a few ideas that will take more detailed research work. We're aiming to film and edit them in bulk in the back half of this year so I can keep to a monthly release schedule - that's the big ambition, one Philosophy Tube episode per month!

PROJECT 20MThis is the codename I'm giving to my feature film project! $20m is a very rough estimate for the budget we'd need, to give you an idea of scale. Believe it or not that's nothing in movie terms! It's a scifi/action film, I wrote it and there's a role in it earmarked for me. It's currently in development in the USA - that means I have producers attached who say they want to help make it. We've also attached an incredible director; I can't say who, but you'd know their name. The film is going out to sales companies at the moment; their job is to tell us how much they think the film could realistically make. We can then take that piece of paper to actors and financiers and say, "Look, this is what the sales companies projected! Wanna help us make it?" It's a long process and at this stage largely out of my hands, which is both refreshing and a bit nervewracking. But keep your fingers crossed!PROJECT 3MThis is also a feature film project - 3M tells you it's much smaller. It's a drama, and again there's a role in it for me. Right now it's in the outlining stage: that means I haven't started writing the script yet, I just have a document containing the plan. I'm waiting on my wonderful manager to send me his thoughts on that outline and then I can get to work writing the first draft. It's always best to get these things thoroughly planned out first; it's hard to unbake the cake once it's been baked! Hollywood is in an interesting place right now post-Obsession and Backrooms where a lot of people are looking for digital creators with feature film ambitions that can be made on (relatively) small budgets. So who knows, maybe 3M will find producers sooner rather than later!

PROJECT XM1This is a TV series that I wrote a pilot and pitch deck for a couple of years ago. I met with a dozen production companies to try and get it off the ground but the timing wasn't right. Now I'm taking meetings with a few more, all arranged by my wonderful agent. I've also got a director soft-attached who I think would be perfect for the material. We might shoot a scene of it as a proof of concept later this summer, then we could send that to producers and be like, "Hey this is what we mean!"

THE SCAPEGOATThis is a stage play I'm writing, I revealed the title last winter. I've gathered notes on the latest draft from friends and my manager over the last few months but I haven't had much time to actually sit down and redraft it yet. My focus is on other projects at the moment.

THE PRINCEMy first play, which we staged in London in 2022, is going to have a staged reading at Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles on the 31st of July! It sold out in less than 48 hours, which is pretty awesome! There will be a livestream available through the same link. I'm excited; we've assembled an awesome cast and I think people are going to have a great time. I put my own money on the line to finance it, which is a bit risky, but hopefully it'll be worth it. The livestream will be crucial to that so if you're interested please do tune in!

Vivian Wilson, Morgana Ignis, me, and Nicole Maines. We'll all be reading The Prince!

AGAIN AGAINThis is my debut feature, written and directed by my friend Mia Moore Marchant and executive produced by Lilly Wachowski. We filmed it back in like, 2023 I wanna say? It screened at the Chinese Theater in Los Angeles in June as part of the Dances With Films festival. That was a special experience, it was lovely to hang out with some of the cast and crew and to see the finished thing finally. I'm proud of the performance I gave! It's currently on the festival circuit so if you follow Mia on socials you'll be able to get updates about its release.

Photos by Rachel Kendra; Cassie, Ian, Mia (in yellow), me, and Cliff at the Dances with Films festival.WHAT'S INSPIRED ME THIS MONTHI went to Frameline, the LGBTQ film festival, and spent some time with some awesome creators, and saw some amazing films that I'll list below. I also hung out with the producers and directors of 20M and we're all super excited to get that rolling, so that's fun. I briefly got to see the director of XM1 too, and I always like hanging out with them.

I also got to host a T4T wrestling event the other night! That was a lot of fun. It was really inspiring to spend time around artists who use everything they have - costume skills, performance skills, athleticism, humour, drag - it was a lovely space to be in.

photos courtesy of Esther Lin

WHAT'S GOT ME STRESSEDHad a falling out with a friend that was my fault, that sucked, it's been weighing on me a lot but I've done all I can. Also House of the Dragon Season 3 is out now and everyone's going wild about my performance in the show, but will the phone actually ring? Who knows!

WHAT I'VE BEEN WATCHING/READING/LISTENING TO• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. I am just now watching this about 5 years late and WOWWW I love it hahaha

• Muse's new album The Wow! Signal. Getting back into Muse for the first time since I was a teen, loving how OTT this is!

• A Safe Distance - cool little heist film I saw at Frameline

• Bound - watched this for the first time in a cinema full of lesbians at Frameline. Incredible experience!

• Camp. A feature film I saw at Frameline, directed by Avalon Fast. One of the most incredible things I've ever seen on screen. Unbelievable. Like a poem come to life. Unspeakably fantastic, do not miss it.