Lucy Campbell is an Australian writer and director. Her short films and online series have screened at festivals around the world and her sci-fi series The Big Nothing has over 1M views on Dust. Lucy cut her teeth working as a script editor/coordinator for shows including Firebite (AMC), The Tourist (BBC/HBO Max), Stateless (ABC/Netflix) and Wolf Creek S2 (Stan). In 2022,…
Continue readingCharlotte Rose Hamlyn is an AWGIE Award-winning screenwriter, the co-founder of children’s animation production company Big Serious Studios, a published Author/Illustrator for children’s books, a director for animated television, a television presenter, and a retired professional fairy. Charlotte has written over 100 episodes across more than 50 shows for platforms including Netflix, ABC, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and Disney, and recently won…
Continue readingFinegan Kruckemeyer has had 101 commissioned plays performed on six continents and translated into eight languages. He has received 42 awards (at least one each year since 2002) including the 2017 Mickey Miners Lifetime Achievement Award for services to international theatre for young audiences, the 2015 David Williamson Prize for Excellence in Writing for Australian Theatre, and…
Continue readingZaity Salman is a screenwriter living and working on Gadigal land in Sydney, Australia. In 2022, she was selected for the AWG First Break program and has since worked as a notetaker on television projects for Every Cloud Productions, Matchbox Productions, and SBS Digital original series, Appetite. Taking from her experiences growing up Black in rural…
Continue readingBlake Ayshford is a multi-award-winning screenwriter. He recently finished working as a writer, script producer and executive producer on the drama series House of Gods, one of only eight projects to be selected for showcase at Series Mania. His credits include some of Australia’s top dramas, including Fighting Season (creator), The Devil’s Playground (showrunner), Mystery…
Continue readingMaria Lewis is a best-selling author, screenwriter, film curator and pop culture etymologist currently based in Australia. Over the past 17 years of her career, she has built an international reputation as a storyteller across a diverse range of mediums. In 2022, her podcast ‘The Phantom Never Dies’ won the AWGIE Award for Best Audio…
Continue readingWhen screenwriter Rhianna Malezer won the short form Monte Miller Award with her script The Stockman, her feelings about winning doubled as brilliant writing advice: ‘The story flowed directly from my spirit. It’s very affirming to know how much more impactful my work can be when I am true to my own voice.’ When did…
Continue readingMaxine Mellor is an award-winning playwright and teaching artist. In 2022, she received the David Williamson Prize for Playwriting and the AWGIE Award for Best Original Stage Play for ‘Horizon’ with Playlab Theatre. Her work has been performed nationally and internationally and is published by Playlab Press and Australian Plays Transform. When did you first realise you wanted to…
Continue readingJames Cripps received the long form Monte Miller Award last year for his series High Rotation, and since then has worked on the upcoming NCIS: Sydney and been a finalist in the 2021 AACTA Pitch: Bite competition. When did you first realise you wanted to be a writer?I was in Year 7 and I thought it was time to decide…
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