Sam Zelaya

Two scheming demons strike a deal with a punk rock-loving teen so they can leave the Underworld and live out their dreams in the Land of the Living.

When sad trans guy Paul falls from his tower block window, he realises he's been living inside the boot of a giant, beautiful trans woman.

‘Poppets’ is a surreal soap opera set in Basildon and the Estuary, following an Essex girl investigating malpractice in a local housing development, and two women who meet and fall in love on a night out at Bas Vegas. They are psychically linked to the story of two Plotlands women (as overshared to them by an old man in the smoking area) who visit their local witch to make a ‘poppet’. A journey through 4 generations of capitalistic town planning, from the smallholdings of the 1800s to the luxury flats built on floodplains of the future.

When Tendai's housemate moves out they find themselves facing access challenges alone for the first time. As they navigate their independence they are hounded by the stereotypical idea of a wheelchair user and how they feel they fail to match up to it, until they decide to take action and free themselves from the narrative.