Directors

Steven Arriagada is an Indigenous Chilean-Italian screenwriter and director, with a keen eye for and interest in genre work. Steven has written multiple episodes of Stan’s hit series BUMP and is writing on multiple feature film projects for Toni Collette and Vocab Films.

Steven’s debut as director, writer and producer, NATHAN LOVES RICKY MARTIN was AACTA and Dendy nominated for Best Short Film. It ranked 6th in AACTA’s short films of the decade. He then adapted the short into a pilot, which was nominated for the AWG Monte Miller Award for best long-form script.

Kit is a London-based playwright and screenwriter. Kit was a writer on Season 2 of TROPPO which was Top Ten on Amazon Prime in the US for over 4 weeks on release in July 2024. His original television series WATER’S EDGE is currently in development with iTV and UNINVITED GUESTS was a finalist in the Studio21 Drama Series competition.

Produced plays include THE STONES (Signal House/King’s Head Theatre), THE PLANT (Ensemble Theatre, Sydney), THE GREAT FIRE (Belvoir St Theatre), A RABBIT FOR KIM JONG-IL(Griffin Theatre Company), SMALL AND TIRED(Belvoir) and NIGHT MAYBE (Stuck Pigs Squealing Theatre).

Helena Brooks is based in Australia. Brooks recently directed crime-comedy POPULATION 11 starring Ben Feldman for Lionsgate/Jungle and was set-up director on the CBS Studios/ABC comedy GOLD DIGGERS. She was nominated for Best TV Comedy Direction at the 2023 ADG Awards. Dramas include set-up director for THE BAD SEED, reviewed as the best New Zealand noir since TOP OF THE LAKE, Sundance NOW’s THE GULF, THE BROKENWOOD MYSTERIES and ABC’s THE MESSENGER.

She directed Celeste Barber’s WELLMANIA for Netflix, Rose Matafeo’s FUNNY GIRLS and she co-wrote and directed Palme d’Or nominated short film NOTHING SPECIAL.

Nick Coyle is a television writer and theatre-maker. Renowned for his solo shows which he has toured around the world Nick created, wrote, directed and starred in webseries SARAHS CHANNEL which played at Comicon in 2019.

Nick has written eight episodes of television series BUMP across two seasons and returns for more episodes in Series 5, he wrote on Netflix’s WELLMANIA, QUEERSTRALIA for the ABC and ITS FINE, IM FINE for SBS On Demand. His play, THE FEATHER IN THE WEB, had its world premiere at Griffin Theatre Company in 2018 and was published by Currency Press and nominated for a NSW Premier’s Literary Award.

Charles Firth is a writer, director, producer and actor. He is currently touring stage shows including WANKERNOMICS and THE WAR ON … and is also in post-production on ABC-Comedy scripted series OPTICS which he has produced, created, written and stars in.

Career highlights include roles as Managing editor of The Chaser Quarterly, Executive Producer of daily TV news comedy show The Roast, Creative Director at digital agency Manic Studios, Writer / presenter of MR FIRTH GOES TO WASHINGTON, Author of AMERICAN HOAX, Creative Director of CHANGEMAKERS podcast, Winner of two Logies (Most Outstanding Comedy) and Nominations for Rose D’Or and AACTA’s.

Declan Greene is a theatre-maker, director, playwright, screenwriter and dramaturg. He is currently Artistic Director at Griffin Theatre Company.

Andrew Kavanagh is a writer, director and composer. Andrew directed and produced VICE Australia’s flagship series: AUSTRALIANA, broadcast on SBS Viceland.

Ismail Khan is a Sydney based screenwriter and director with Wailwan and Pakistani heritage

Josh Lawson is an Oscar-nominated writer and producer for short film THE ELEVEN O’CLOCK. Josh wrote and directed two feature films THE LITTLE DEATH and LONG STORY SHORT. The foreign remake rights have sold to many territories of these films and they have been remade in mulitple foreign language versions. His earlier short film, AFTER THE CREDITS won Best Comedy at the LA Shorts Fest.

Gideon founded Chunky Move in 1995 and was the company’s artistic director until 2012. Gideon’s works have been performed in many festivals and theatres around the world in the UK, Europe, Asia and the Americas.

Trent O’Donnell is one of Australia’s most successful television directors and showrunners. He directs COLIN FROM ACCOUNTS created by Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer and received a 2023 AACTA Award nomination for Best Direction in Drama or Comedy for this work.

Trent set-up and Executive Produced series POPULATION 11 starring Ben Feldman. In the US Trent set-up, Executive Produced and directed more than 15 episodes of CBS hit remake of GHOSTS and he also directed Season 2 finale of the Emmy Award winning series HACKS starring Jean Smart.

Gracie recently directed six-part series LADIES IN BLACK, based on the film of the same name, starring Debi Mazar for Bunya Productions and ABC, she was set-up director on Netflix’s Top 10 series HEARTBREAK HIGH which won an International Emmy. Gracie directed Disney+ series THE ARTFUL DODGER starring David Thewlis and Thomas Brodie-Sangster.

Prior to this she directed THE CLEARING for Disney + starring Teresa Palmer, Miranda Otto and Guy Pearce and DEADLOCH, a feminist noir comedy, for Amazon Studios.

Hannah Reilly is an award winning Australian writer, director, lyricist and performer.

Australian director and writer whose stage and screen work includes opera and international musicals, including three era-defining musicals HAIR (Sydney, Tokyo, Boston), JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (Australia, UK) and THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW (UK, USA, Australia), countless premieres and radical interpretations of classics, including works by Shakespeare, Mozart, Strindberg and Brecht.

Jeremy is a director, producer and writer of film, television and theatre. His feature films have been nominated for 25 AACTA awards.

Adrian is a Wonnarua man originally from Bourke NSW who is committed to explore the outsider, the fringe dweller, the rebel.

Kip Williams is a multi-award winning director of theatre and opera.

In February 2024 Williams’ acclaimed adaption of The Picture of Dorian Gray opened to rave reviews and standing ovations on the West End at the Theatre Royal Haymarket starring Sarah Snook as the solo performer. Conceived, written and directed by Williams, the produciton had its premiere at Sydney Theatre Company in November 2020 where it was met with a slew of five star reviews.