Film and Television
HIGHLIGHTS
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2024 | Assistant Writer | Writing first draft guest intros and other additional writing for Host of the show, Tom Gleisner. Ongoing until October 2024.
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2023 - 2024 | Host Writer/ Script Co-Ord | During my first year with Thank God You’re Here, I was able to showcase my varied script department skills, while also bringing my years of on stage and comedy writing knowledge to host writing. This role combines Script Coordination and additional material writing for the show’s host. I was also asked back for season 6.
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Writer | 2024 | This is currently being shot, it will be my first half hour writing credit. I was engaged as a writer for the entire process through from contributing in rooms to delivering my scripts and taking notes on said scripts. I was part of setting up what the show would be, as well as carving out the voice for the show, as it was a deviation in the form of once off specials from the already established Good Game brand.
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Writer | 2023 | After their selection for the ABC/ Screen Australia Fresh Blood initiative - an initiative that takes emerging comedy writers and gives them the opportunity to create shorts in the hopes for making a pilot, then a comedy series, creators of the successful podcast Starship Q Star Meegan and Lauren invited me to attend the workshops with them as a writer due to my initial work on their podcast. I also assisted in the development workshops where we took the initial podcast and workshopped it to be an animated series. I also voiced Mo in these series.
Writer | 2022 | Narrative Podcast Format | In 2022 I wrote and starred in Starship Q Star a fully funded narrative comedy podcast created by Meegan May and Lauren Anderson. I penned Episode 4 and also voiced the character of Mo throughout the series. I was able to adapt to the creative challenges of writing audio only while upholding the logic of a strict sci-fi comedy world.
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Writer | 2018 | While working as a Writer and Director’s Assistant to animator and creator Michael Cusack, I worked in many stages of writing development. Through my work with Michael, I was able to show my ability to adapt to his unique voice by writing a spec for the series, which was later optioned as an episode in the series.
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2020 | Writer | During the 2020 lockdowns, I worked as a researcher and writer on ABC Me’s children’s news parody sketch show Definitely Not News. This production was created in lockdown and all work was remote including shooting. This placed specific writing demands on my work, and I was able to adapt to the restrictions of remote shooting and children’s television. I was also brought in as a ring in to fill in for a writer who had excited after the show was on it’s feel and I excelled in the challenging scenario of coming in half-way by creating meaningful relationships, taking criticism and notes constructively, and quickly learning the voice of the show.
NOTETAKING
Since graduating her Masters in 2016, Lena has note taken in a variety of scripted drama writer’s rooms. During this time, Lena has worked for the likes of Guesswork TV, Princess Pictures, Werner Films, Cabbage Films, and Haven’t You Done Well Productions.
This invaluable experience has given Lena the tools to work within writer’s rooms, as well as facilitate development and also deepened her understanding of storytelling.
WRITING/DIRECTING
Lena's ungraduate film Splendr, was co-written with peer Alexander Moore.
Completed in 2013, the film circulated festivals before finally being uploaded online.
Awards for Splendr:
Accolade Competition (USA), 2014:
Award of Merit for Scriptwriting
Award of Excellence for Short Film
Swinburne Graduate Night, 2013:
Richard Franklin Award for Best Film
Best Screenplay
Worldfest Houston (USA):
Bronze Remi, Graduate Level Student Productions
Splendr - Victorian College of the Arts
DIRECTING
Directed, starred and assistant coordinated the production of this web series. Co-directed a couple of episodes with Emily Joy.
Woah, Alyssa!
Directed by Lena Moon & Alexander Moore
Written by Lena Moon & Alexander Moore
Director of Photography Pat Neff
Produced by Alex Byne
Edited by Thomas Wilkinson
Starring Tavis Urquhart, Ivanka Sokol & William Ewing.
Spelndr
NHR - Normal Human Responses
These sketches were made in conjunction with a 50 minute stage show.
They were incorporated to thematically link together the show, and some played in conjunction with live performance.
I Can’t Even
One apartment, two friends, and an exponential number of fandoms to argue about.
Dairy Kweenz!
Misc. Sketches
Various sketch collaborations
EXTENSIVE CV
Freelance Film and Television Experience – Script Department
ASSISTANT WRITER | NETWORK TEN | 2024 | Have You Been Paying Attention?
WRITER | ABC ME | 2024 | Good Game Spawn Point
HOST WRITER/SCRIPT COORDINATOR | NETWORK TEN | 2023 - 2024 | Thank God You’re Here
WRITER | ABC FRESH BLOOD | 2023 | Starship Q Star
WRITER | INDEPENDENT | 2022 | Starship Q Star - Narrative Podcast
WRITER’S ASSISTANT & SCRIPT COORDINATOR | HAVEN’T YOU DONE WELL| JUNE - AUG 2022 | Aunty Donna’s Coffee Cafe
WRITER’S ASSISTANT | WERNER FILM PRODUCTIONS | JULY - AUG 2021 | Crazy Fun Park
NOTE TAKER | WERNER FILM PRODUCTIONS | DEC 2020 | Confidential Project
WRITER | ABC ME | JUN – AUG 2020 | Definitely Not News
WRITER/ DIRECTOR/ PROD MANAGER | STUPID OLD STUDIOS | JUN - AUG 2020 | Annie and Lena Online Supported by City of Melbourne
NOTE TAKER | WERNER FILM PRODUCTIONS | JAN 2020 | Surviving Summer
WRITER’S ASSISTANT | HAVEN’T YOU DONE WELL PRODUCTIONS | OCT 2019 | Aunty Donna’s Big Old House of Fun
NOTE TAKER | PRINCESS PICTURES| SEPT 2019 | Confidential Project
WRITER, EPISODE 6 | PRINCESS PICTURES| MAY 2019 – SEPT 2019 | YOLO Crystal Fantasy
DIRECTOR’S ASSISTANT & NOTE TAKER | PRINCESS PICTURES| MAY 2019 – SEPT 2019 | YOLO Crystal Fantasy
NOTE TAKER | CABBAGE FILMS | AUGUST 2019 |Confidential Project
WRITER’S ASSISTANT & 1ST AD | HAVEN’T YOU DONE WELL PRODUCTIONS| DEC 2018 | Aunty Donna – Glennridge Secondary College, Web Series
Freelance Film and Television Experience – Production
PRODUCTION CO-ORDINATOR | WE’RE STILL HERE | MAY 2021 | We’re Still Here (multiple state/ travelling production)
PRODUCER | SANSPANTS RADIO | JAN 2021 - PRESENT | DND is For Nerds Video Campaign
PROD SECRETARY | GOALPOST | NOV 2020 | Confidential Project Producer: Jo Werner
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT | FINCH | MARCH 2019 | Sportsbet "Dare To Do The Doing" & "Epic Montage", TVC
1st ASSISTANT DIRECTOR | HAVEN’T YOU DONE WELL PRODUCTIONS | DEC 2018 – JAN 2019 | Aunty Donna – Glennridge Secondary College, Web Series
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT | RELIC PRODUCTIONS | SEPT 2018 – DEC 2018 | RELIC, Feature Film
PRODUCTION SECRETARY | MATCHBOX PICTURES | JUL 2018 | Mustangs FC Season 2, Television Series
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT | MATCHBOX PICTURES| MAY 2018 – SEPT 2018 | Mustangs FC Season 2, Television Series
CAST DRIVER | SEASIDE PRODUCTIONS | MARCH 2018 | Judy and Punch, Feature Film
PRODUCER’S ASSISTANT/ 1ST AD | THE PROJECTS | APRIL 2018 | Aunty Donna X Finder.com.au, Web Series
ART DEPARTMENT ASSISTANT | FLINDERS LANE | 2017 | Coles Coupons, TVC
PRODUCER’S ASSISTANT | PRODIGIOUS MELBOURNE | 2017 | BONDS, Online Campaign
PRODUCER’S ASSISTANT | PRODIGIOUS MELBOURNE | 2017 | Spirit of Tasmania, Online Campaign
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT | MATCHBOX PICTURES | DEC 2016 – APR 2017 | Mustangs FC Season 1, Television Series
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT | DECEMBER MEDIA | DEC 2016 | The Dr Blake Mysteries, Television Series, 2016
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT | ITV STUDIOS| 2016 | The Voice Auditions, Television Series
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PRODUCTION ASSISTANT | FREMANTLE MEDIA| 2016 | Great Australian Bake Off, Television Series
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT | ENDEMOL SHINE | 2016 | The Big Music Quiz, (Audience) Television Series
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT | FREMANTLE MEDIA | 2015 | Australia’s Got Talent, Television Series
1st ASSISTANT DIRECTOR | YUNG VICTORIA | 2016 | The Y2K Bug, Web Series
1st ASSISTANT DIRECTOR | INDEPENDENT | 2014 | Falling, Short Film
1st ASSISTANT DIRECTOR | INDEPENDENT | 2014 | Double Patty, Short Film
1st ASSISTANT DIRECTOR | INDEPENDENT | 2013 | Honalee, Short Film
1st ASSISTANT DIRECTOR | INDEPENDENT | 2013 | The Boy Who Had No Thumbs, Short Film
1st ASSISTANT DIRECTOR | INDEPENDENT | 2013 | Honalee, Short Film
1st ASSISTANT DIRECTOR | INDEPENDENT | 2013 | Want it on the Dance Floor, Music Video
1st ASSISTANT DIRECTOR | INDEPENDENT | 2013 |That Phone is a Brick, Allday, Music Video
1st ASSISTANT DIRECTOR | DREXEL UNIVERISTY | 2012 | Off Campus, Television Series, (USA)