About
Lady Rev. Dr Margaret Wheldon — Diddy, DrDidsTV — award-winning creative director, producer and scriptwriter.
Over 30 years in film, theatre and broadcast — now specialising in generative AI production. She has run Eye to Eye Films since 2008, and is a featured artist in the BFI NETWORK Yearbook Alumni Directory (August 2025).
Behind the scenes. Acted at six, modelled at nine, and by fifteen was rigging lights and sound at the Playhouse — in 1988 the only woman on a YTS (Youth Training Scheme) in theatre sound and lighting, a pioneering experiment at the time. Over 23 years as Nottingham Playhouse LX/SX crew (1988–2011) she operated 14 pantomimes, Shakespeare, dance and rep, with cross-training in stage management and theatre-in-education touring. She went on to show-manage the Silver City Stunt Show and Lazy Lil’s Saloon Show at The American Adventure theme park (2004) — six shows a day of lighting, sound, pyrotechnics and water cannon — and to production-manage the 500-seat Vista Show Lounge aboard the Sun Princess for Princess Cruises (2005). Since 2023 she has been part of the Writers Room at Nottingham Playhouse.
In front of the camera. Her first film was Ken Loach’s Hidden Agenda (1989), as a supporting artist (aeroplane passenger). Later screen credits include Bunny and the Bull (2008) and BBC/Tiger Aspect’s Prisoners’ Wives (2011). She trained for two and a half years at Actors Workshop, spent five years performing live interactive murder mysteries, ran a Santa’s grotto for six years and has performed in scare mazes. IMDb profile.
Worldwide. She has worked internationally — from voice-over work for a music producer in Venezuela and for Samsung Mobile in China, to devising drama and art curricula in Beijing — and trained in radio production and presenting, as well as sound engineering at Confetti.
Award-winning shorts include Trapped in Their Dreams and Embers of Redemption (2023), on which she was actress, writer, director, producer, sound designer and editor. AI vocal personas Indigo Vox and Anya Cadence front much of her music, with lyrics by Diddy.
Education: Foundation Degree, TV, Film & Video (Intermedia/Confetti, Nottingham, 2001) · University of Metaphysical Sciences: BMSc Metaphysical Sciences (2020), MMSc Metaphysical Sciences & Reverend’s Ordination (2021), Doctorate in Divinity (2023).
AI toolkit: RunwayML, Kling, Grok Imagine, Seedream, Veo, Midjourney, LTX Studio, Minimax/Hailuo, Flow, ElevenLabs, Suno, DaVinci Resolve, Topaz.
- Immersive Human-Machine Collaboration — WSXA Amsterdam 2025, for The Last Echo
- Best Female Director · Best Short Film · Best Women's Short — Mokkho International Film Festival 2024, for Trapped in Their Dreams
- Best Drama — Clown International Film Festival 2024, for Trapped in Their Dreams
- Winner — Triloka International Filmfare Awards 2024, for Trapped in Their Dreams
- Best Feature Film (Winter 2024) — The Flight Deck Film Festival, for Trapped in Their Dreams
- Trendsetter Award — Lift-Off Global 2024, First-Time Filmmaker Sessions, for Trapped in Their Dreams
- Global Visionaries, Singapore 2024, for Temporal Echoes
- Best Mobile Shot — Humro Cinema Film Fest 2024, for Embers of Redemption
- Best Women's Short — Mokkho International Film Festival 2024, for Embers of Redemption
Credits: films — Dr Margaret Wheldon, Eye to Eye Films · music & acting — Diddy Wheldon · books & scripts — Dr Margaret Wheldon (Lady Reverend Publishing). Clara Rose's Adventures in Mysterious Mystara: books 1–7 published (books 1–6 for ages 5–11).
