Film and Television


HIGHLIGHTS
  • 2024 | Assistant Writer | Writing first draft guest intros and other additional writing for Host of the show, Tom Gleisner. Ongoing until October 2024.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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!

All written collaboratively by the Dairy Kweenz, more on their sketch here.

Check out The Dairy Kweenz on Facebook and Youtube.

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 

  • 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)