cross-format Projects
Book-to-Screen Portfolio
I am drawn to the kind of stories Shakespeare would have recognised at once: love and ambition, power and betrayal, and private choices with public consequences. Focusing on high-stakes, character-driven international drama, I develop cross-format IPs conceived from the outset for both books and television. My flagship portfolio brings together three deeply researched historical projects, each rooted in real lives, original archival sources, and the precise turning points where private decisions become history. Welcome to a royal world — spectacular, intimate, and fragile.
tragic coming-of-age story
NICKY: Before the Crown
Biographical Novel + Limited Series 6 × 55 min
In January 1894, Nicky Romanov is twenty-five, in love with a ballerina, happiest with a billiard cue in one hand and a camera in the other, and doing his best not to think about marriage or — much worse — the throne.
By New Year’s Eve, his father is dead, the ballerina is gone, he is married — and the throne he never wanted is his.
Nicky has become Nicholas II.
epic saga OF RESILIENCE AND EXILE
CATHERINE: The Voice of a Lost Empire
Narrative Biography + Limited Series 8 × 45 min
Born into a world of palaces, diamonds, and privilege, Catherine Yurievskaya is swept by history into poverty, hard labour, and exile, forcing her to reinvent herself as a singer and build a life that is finally her own.
Based on the extraordinary life of Her Serene Highness Princess Catherine Yurievskaya, the youngest and most beloved daughter of Emperor Alexander II and his morganatic wife Princess Dolgorukova.
tragic coming-of-age story
NICKY: Before the Crown
Biographical Novel + Limited Series 6 × 55 min
In January 1894, Nicky Romanov is twenty-five, in love with a ballerina, happiest with a billiard cue in one hand and a camera in the other, and doing his best not to think about marriage or — much worse — the throne.
By New Year’s Eve, his father is dead, the ballerina is gone, he is married — and the throne he never wanted is his.
Nicky has become Nicholas II.