Writers

Steven Arriagada Directors, Writers

Steven Arriagada is an Indigenous Chilean-Italian screenwriter and director, with a keen eye for and interest in genre work.

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Angela Betzien Writers

Angela Betzien is a multi-award winning writer and a founding member of independent theatre company Real TV; her work has toured widely across Australia and internationally.

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Gemma Bird Matheson Writers

Gemma Bird Matheson is an AWGIE and AACTA nominated writer and actor of South African and Papua New Guinean heritage. She was one of the 2023 Talent Gateway recipients, an initiative run by Screen Australia and Australians in Film.

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Kit Brookman Directors, Writers

Kit Brookman is a London-based playwright and screenwriter. His original series WATER’S EDGE is currently in development with Silverprint Pictures.

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Helena Brooks Directors, Writers

Helena Brooks is a Director/Writer who most recently set-up the CBS Studios/ABC original comedy GOLD DIGGERS.

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Nick Coyle Directors, Writers

Nick Coyle is a writer, director and performer renowned for comedy, plays and his one-man shows.

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Reg Cribb Writers

Reg is a screenwriter and playwright. He has been nominated for many more awards including four AWGIEs and two AFI’s for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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Gemma Crofts Writers

Gemma is a screenwriter with a particular interest in genre and YA projects.

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David Finnigan Artists, Writers

David Finnigan is an Australian writer at the forefront of climate change research and writing.

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Charles Firth Directors, Writers

Charles Firth is the creator of the multi Logie-award winning comedy team, THE CHASER and author of the bestselling book, AMERICAN HOAX.

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Charlie Garber Artists, Writers

Charlie is a writer and actor. He co-created the ABC comedy series SANDO and is currently developing his comedy television series NEXT DOOR with production companies Easy Tiger and Thumper.

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Declan Furber Gillick Writers

Declan Furber Gillick is a multidisciplinary artist, writer and performer from Mparntwe (Alice Springs). His practice spans prose, theatre, poetry, music, rap, film, television and visual arts.

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Declan Greene Directors, Writers

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

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Natassia Halabi Writers

Natassia Halabi is a screenwriter and actor born in Sydney Australia to a Muslim Syrian father and an Australian/European mother.

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Andrew Kavanagh Directors, Writers

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

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Ismail Khan Directors, Writers

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

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Anchuli Felicia King Artists, Writers

Anchuli Felicia King is a playwright, screenwriter and multidisciplinary artist of Thai-Australian descent. King recently wrote on HBO’s/Team Downey series THE SYMPATHIZER based on the book of the same name due for 2024 release.

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Josh Lawson Directors, Writers

Josh Lawson is a writer, director and actor. Josh wrote and directed short film, AFTER THE CREDITS which won Best Comedy at the LA Shorts Fest.

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Michele Lee Writers

Michele Lee is a Hmong-Australian writer working across television, film, stage, books, audio and live art.

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Kirsty Marillier Writers

Kirsty Marillier is a South African actor and award-winning playwright. She is currently a part of the Emerging Writers Group at Sydney Theatre Company and has two original works in development.

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Elise McCredie Writers

Elise McCredie is an award-winning screenwriter and director. Elise was the showrunner on the first Australian, Disney + series, THE CLEARING – a limited series starring Theresa Palmer, Guy Pearce and Miranda Otto.

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Judi McCrossin Writers

Judi McCrossin is an award winning Australian screenwriter and producer. She is currently in development for a number of projects, many of which are based in the UK.

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Kylie Needham Writers

Kylie Needham is an author and award-winning screenwriter.

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Trent O’Donnell Directors, Writers

Trent is a director, writer and producer. Trent co-created, wrote and directed ABC-TV comedy series Review with Myles Barlow and A Moody Christmas. The Review format is being remade in the US, UK and Holland.

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Gracie Otto Directors, Writers

Gracie is an accomplished Australian screen director, editor and actor. Gracie is currently working on the Bunya/ABC series, LADIES IN BLACK starring Debi Mazer and Miranda Otto.

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Hannah Reilly Directors, Writers

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

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Mira Robertson Writers

Mira Robertson is a screenwriter, script developer/editor, script consultant, screen writing teacher and short story writer.

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Sarah Scheller Writers

Sarah Scheller is a screenwriter and director. She is currently showrunning STRIFE for Binge in Australia where she is working with Made Up Stories as producers.

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Jim Sharman Directors, Writers

Background: Born, Australia. NIDA Graduate. Churchill Scholar.

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Jeremy Sims Directors, Writers

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

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Samantha Strauss Writers

Samantha Strauss is a writer for television and film, she created the series DANCE ACADEMY which was nominated for an international Emmy in 2011.

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Kylie Trounson Writers

Kylie Trounson is a playwright, actor and lawyer. Kylie is currently writer in residence and has a major commission at the Melbourne Theatre Company for a new play.

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Adrian Russell Wills Directors, Writers

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

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Monica Zanetti Directors, Writers

Monica Zanetti is an award-winning screenwriter and director. Monica created, wrote and directed WHILE THE MEN ARE AWAY for SBS.

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Vic Zerbst Directors, Writers

Vic Zerbst is an award-winning comedy writer and director. Their work with the THE FEED comedy team for SBS has amassed over 80 million and resulted in 3 AWGIE Awards for best Comedy Writing (Sketch or Light Entertainment).

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