Projects
Currently working on multiple projects, Aveleigh enjoys high stakes, non-linear storytelling from a female perspective. She likes to write morally ambiguous characters that you can fall in love with and cheer on. She approaches storytelling from the belief that everyone is always trying their best, even if their best isn’t enough.
Your Dead Boyfriend Sucks
Supernatural Short Comedy Film
After her boyfriend dies, a grieving girl decides to enlist the help of her friends to get some closure - by using a ouija board to talk to him.
WINNER of Canadian Film Fest's Comedy Igniter Program
What I Did for Love
Short Horror Film
After a young actress is rejected from her dream performing arts program, she crashes a class hoping to get in regardless... to horrifying consequences.
Blue Light Glasses
Short Film
Power couple Paul and Quinn have an immense following on youtube and instagram with their #couplegoals content. But when their breakup gets ugly, Quinn retreats to her childhood home. Feeling like a failure and falling deeper and deeper into depression, Quinn tries to answer the question: when your entire identity and career depend on a relationship, who are you when it ends?
Dancing Under a Blanket
Play
After a cute but awkward one night stand, Alice attempts to distance herself from boy-next-door Jamie. But when they keep finding themselves thrown back in time, she must team up with him to escape. But Jamie’s hiding some crucial info: he’s in control of the time loop, and won’t let her go ‘til she falls in love with him.
Toronto, 1989
One Act Play
While volunteering at an AIDS hospice, Steph - a butch lesbian - encounters a young teenage girl too nervous to visit her dying brother. While convincing her to say goodbye, Steph re-lives key moments in her life.
