YELLOW CREATIVE MANAGEMENT - Key Persons
Mira Robertson is a screenwriter, script editor/consultant and novelist.
Mira is currently the SBS Script Executive on the forthcoming SBS/Aquarius Films mini-series, THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS
She script edited the SBS/Closer Productions 4 part drama, THE HUNTING (2019). The award- winning show was the highest ever rating SBS mini-series, with over 4 million views.
Mira's film script editing credits include Ana Kokkinos' THE BOOK OF REVEALATION; Jon Hewitt's feature film X; Rhys Graham's GALORE ; documentaries by Rhys Graham and Natasha Gadd including WORDS FROM THE CITY and MURANDAK SONG OF FREEDOM, and Scott Millwood's award-winning documentary WILDNESS.
Mira's writing credits include ONLY THE BRAVE and HEAD ON, both films co-written with director Ana Kokkinos. These films had successful international releases and won many awards, including an AFI for Best Script for ONLY THE BRAVE, and an AWGIE for Best Adapted Script for HEAD ON. With Scott Millwood, she co-wrote the feature documentary WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BRENDA HEAN? which screened at MIFF in 2008.
Mira's debut novel, THE UNEXPECTED EDUCATION OF EMILY DEAN was published by Black Inc in 2018.
Job Titles:
- DIRECTOR
- Writer, Director
Andrew Kavanagh is a writer, director and composer. Andrew directed and produced VICE Australia's flagship series: AUSTRALIANA, broadcast on SBS Viceland.
Andrew's short film credits include writing and directing Screen Australia funded short WELCOME HOME ALLEN, which screened at Sydney, Melbourne, Clermont-Ferrand and Rotterdam International Film Festivals among others, and won Best Film at the St Kilda Film Festival and Best International Short at the Guanajuato IFF. His short film trilogy SHORT COLLISIONS screened at prestigious festivals in Rotterdam, Locarno and Clermont Ferrand, picking up numerous awards including the Emerging Filmmaker prize at Melbourne International Film Festival and the Grand Prix at the Gijon IFF.
Andrew graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with short film AT THE FORMAL, which screened at or won awards at more than 60 festivals, including Locarno, Rotterdam, AFI Fest, Los Angeles IFF and Clermont Ferrand.
Andrew's accolades include the Qantas Spirit of Youth Award for Film and Video which involved a one year mentorship with Hollywood director, Robert Luketic (LEGALLY BLONDE, 21, MONSTER IN LAW).
Job Titles:
- Editor for the Weekend Australian
Job Titles:
- DIRECTOR
- Creator
- Writer, Director
Charles Firth is a writer, director, producer and co-host of CHASER RADIO on Triple M in Sydney.
Charles was executive producer of THE ROAST and ROAST NEWS UPDATE and the creator of the multi Logie-award winning comedy team THE CHASER. In 2010 Charles wrote and directed a series called WTF for Go! The series consisted of thirty 2 minute episodes of satiric news and comedy sketches.
Charles produced a comedy documentary (nominated for Most Outstanding Comedy at 2009 Logies) about the US elections for SBS-TV called MR FIRTH GOES TO WASHINGTON. Before that he was the US correspondent for AFI nominated THE CHASER'S WAR ON EVERYTHING. He was a presenter and writer on AFI nominated CNNNN, THE CHASER DECIDES and THE ELECTION CHASER. With the team, he has also written five CHASER ANNUALS, published by Text Publishing, and produced 89 editions of their satirical newspaper, THE CHASER.
Charles Firth is the creator of the multi Logie-award winning comedy team, THE CHASER and author of the bestselling book, AMERICAN HOAX.
David Finnigan is an Australian writer at the forefront of climate change research and writing.
David has worked with leading government, business and research institutions including the World Bank, Chatham House, Nesta UK, the Australian National University and the CSIRO leading teams to synthesise stories and science into research and problem solving.
In 2023 David's play SCENES FROM THE CLIMATE CHANGE ERA had its world premiere at Belvoir in Sydney.The Guardian called it "the world's biggest story told in 50 scenes over 80 minutes".
Last year his play 44 SEX ACTS IN ONE WEEK which was procuced by Belvoir Theatre and STC as part of the Sydney Festival. He also wrote and performed climate piece YOU'RE SAFE TIL 2024: DEEP HISTORY at the Edinburgh Festival, the Barbican in London, the Sydney Opera House and at the Canberra Theatre.
In 2018 his break-out work KILL CLIMATE DENIERS was staged at the Griffin Theatre. Following this, David's plays have appeared in major festivals and venues including FutureFest London (CrimeForce, 2018), AsiaTOPA (Are You Ready, 2022) and the Sydney Festival (44 Sex Acts In One Week, 2022).
He began his practice as a playwright in Canberra in the 2000s, first attracting national attention with the 2011 production of his 22 Short Plays. Since then, he has received a Green Room Award for Best New Writing, the Griffin Playwrights Award, and his scripts have been nominated for every major playwriting award in the country.
Though first meeting acclaim as a playwright, David has worked in myriad mediums over his career, continually testing new forms and challenging himself to stay out of his comfort zone.
In 2009, David co-founded the Crack Theatre Festival in Newcastle, and in 2011 he co-founded the You Are Here Festival in Canberra. Both have grown into significant national events for experimental artists; both are still thriving today.
In the late 2000s, David was writer-in-residence for Tanghalang Pilipino, the key government-funded theatre company in the Philippines. This led to an ongoing and fruitful creative relationship with the region, including an Asialink Fellowship in 2015 to develop a Philippines-Australian artist exchange program.
In 2008 David co-founded science theatre company Boho to create work in collaboration with scientists. Boho have toured to venues including the Battersea Arts Centre, the London Science Museum, ArtScience Singapore and CAMP Shanghai.
In recognition of these achievements, David was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2012 to research the interplay between science and the performing arts internationally. In 2014 this was followed by an Australia Council Early Career Fellowship for his cross-disciplinary performance work.
Declan Greene is a theatre-maker, director, playwright, screenwriter and dramaturg. He is currently Artistic Director at Griffin Theatre Company.
Declan has been a Resident Artist at Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne. In 2019 Declan is directing a one-woman re-versioning of Australian classic WAKE IN FRIGHT with Zahra Newman for Malthouse Theatre. In 2018 Declan directed Malthouse Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company's co-production BLACKIE BLACKIE BROWN by Nakkiah Lui. In 2016 he directed The Listies' PRINCE OF SKIDMARK for STC, which had a return season and tour in 2018.
As a playwright Declan's original work includes MOTH, POMPEII L.A., EIGHT GIGABYTES OF HARDCORE PORNOGRAPHY, I AM A MIRACLE and THE HOMOSEXUALS, OR ‘FAGGOTS', which have been produced across Australia, Europe, the US, and the UK. Declan adapted Lars Von Triers' feature film MELANCHOLIA for the stage which Matt Lutton directed at Malthouse.
Declan runs queer independent theatre company Sisters Grimm with collaborator Ash Flanders and has directed and co-created all their shows to date. These include LITTLE MERCY (Sydney Theatre Company), THE SOVEREIGN WIFE (MTC NEON), SUMMERTIME IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN (Theatre Works / Griffin Independent), CALPURNIA DESCENDING (Malthouse Theatre / Sydney Theatre Company) and LILITH: THE JUNGLE GIRL (MTC / Edinburgh Fringe Festival).
As a director and dramaturg, his works include Zoey Dawson's THE UNSPOKEN WORD IS ‘JOE' (MKA / Griffin Independent) and CONVICTION (ZLMD Shakespeare).
Declan has won awards including the Malcolm Robertson Prize, the Max Afford Playwright's Award, an AWGIE for Theatre for Young Audiences and the Green Room Award for Best Original Writing.
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.
Prior to this Elise was the showrunner of STATELESS with EPs and co-creators Tony Ayres and Cate Blanchett. It screened locally on ABC-TV and internationally on Netflix and had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2020. It won a record 13 AACTA awards including Best Television Drama in 2020.
Elise wrote, created and produced (with Matt Cameron and Easy Tiger/ Carver Films) TV series SUNSHINE for SBS which starred Anthony LaPaglia and won the AWGIE for Best Miniseries Script in 2019. Feature film RIDE LIKE A GIRL (co-written with Andrew Knight and directed by Rachel Griffiths) was the top grossing Australian film of 2019 and was nominated for an AWGIE for best feature screenplay and an AACTA for best film.
Elise has written for two seasons of the International Emmy winning ABC series, NOWHERE BOYS. Elise is writer and co-creator of a JACK IRISH episode(2018), both for Easy Tiger Productions. She has also written for SECRET CITY (Matchbox).
Elise has been nominated for five Australian Writers' Guild Awards, winning twice. Elise's feature film STRANGE FITS OF PASSION (writer/director) was selected for the Cannes Film Festival, received 3 AFI nominations, an IF nomination, an AWGIE nomination and was nominated for the Bronze Horse at The Stockholm Film Festival.
Elise is currently developing a number of feature films and working with Sharon Horgan's company MERMAN on a television adaptation of a bestselling novel.
Elizabeth Gadsby is an artist and set designer. She primarily creates work for live performance including Theatre, Dance, Ballet and Opera and has designed a number of TV and film works.
Elizabeth's most recent credits include designing the set for YULEDA by Bangarra Dance Company, set and costumes for COSI FAN TUTTE for Opera Queensland,and set and costume design for THE VISITORS at Sydney Theatre Company directed by Wesley Enoch.
Elizabeth designed the critically acclaimed operas AWAKENING SHADOW and ANTARTICA for Sydney Chamber Opera. Additional opera highlights include, co-director and costume designer for the Sydney Chamber Opera and Victorian Opera production of THE RAPE OF LUCRETI'A', presented at Carriageworks in Sydney and the Theatre Royal in Hobart.
Gadsby's theatre credits include set and costume design for JULIUS CAESAR and costume design for THE TEMPEST, also both directed by Kip Williams; APPROPRIATE directed by Wesley Enoch and SEVEN STAGES OF GRIEVING directed by Shari Sebbens all presented by Sydney Theatre Company. Elizabeth served as Sydney Theatre Company's resident Designer from 2016-2019.
Elizabeth has been a recipient of numerous Australia Council and Create NSW grants, a William Fletcher Scholar, and was the 2015 artist in residence for City of Sydney's Creative Living Work Space program. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) from National Art School and a Bachelor of Dramatic Arts (Design) from NIDA.
Elly Speer is Associate Agent working across the client list. Elly completed an undergrad degree at Wingate Universty in the US where she was on a scholarship, swam competitively in the national competition and achieved Dean's List and President's List honours each year. After returning to Australia Elly worked at a family law firm and then for four years at LMCM - a leading talent agency - in Sydney.
Gemma Crofts is a screenwriter and script editor working across genres and formats. She wrote on the first season of SURVIVING SUMMER for Werner Film Productions, a show which she also helped develop and sell. She has worked on television and feature projects for Netflix, Fremantle, Orange Entertainment and SBS, among others. She has both feature and television projects in active development with various production companies in both Australia and internationally, including Happy Accidents (US), Atlantic Nomad (UK) and Arcadia (AUS).
Previously Gemma was a development executive with a career spanning ten years, four companies and two continents. She trained in development at the Binger Film Lab and is a proponent of the Solace 23 school of script development, and is now a freelance script editor, having script edited for projects backed by Screen NSW, Screen Australia and SBS.
Her screenwriting has won and been shortlisted for both Australian and international awards, including a Nicholl semi-finalist, Austin semi-finalist, PAGE Bronze Award, Script Pipeline semi-finalist, and a two time nominee and one time winner of the Monte Miller Award for Best Unproduced Long Form Screenplay at the Australian Writers Guild Awards.
Job Titles:
- DIRECTOR
- Choreographer, Directors
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.
Job Titles:
- DIRECTOR
- Writer, Director
Hannah Reilly is an award winning Australian writer, director, lyricist and performer.
Hannah originally developed THE DEB into a full-length musical after she was awarded the ATYP Rebel Wilson Comedy Commission in 2018. Hannah wrote and directed a live stage version of THE DEB which opened the eponymous Rebel Theatre in Sydney's Walsh Bay theatre district in 2022. That same year the Guardian ranked THE DEB as one of the 15 greatest Australian musicals ever. THE DEB was also announced as a feature film at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. The screenplay was written by Hannah, and will serve as Rebel Wilson's directorial debut. The film will be produced in partnership with AI/Unigram and award-winning Australian production company Bunya Productions.
Previously Hannah wrote, directed and presented the primetime TV show GROWING UP GRACEFULLY. Her comedic songs from the show have been viewed more than 25 million times on Facebook and YouTube. SHEILAS - a comedy series about forgotten women of history - which Hannah wrote and directed won an Australian Writers Guild Award and the Grand Jury Prize at Melbourne Web Fest and Gold Coast Film Festival.
Hannah has been supported by Screen Australia to take up a 6 month position working with Invention Studios in LA collaborating with Nicky Weinstock which she starts early 2024.
Hannah was mentored by Tony-nominated writer/composer Eddie Perfect and she currently has multiple screen projects in development, as well as developing works under her own company banner Most Improved Productions.
Helena Brooks is an Australian based director hailing originally from New Zealand. Brooks recently directed the STAN crime-comedy POPULATION 11 starring Ben Feldman for Lionsgate/Jungle and was set-up director on the CBS Studios/ABC comedy, GOLD DIGGERS. Brooks was nominated for the Best Direction in a TV Comedy Series at the 2023 Australian Director's Guild Awards for her work on GOLD DIGGERS and the program has been nominated for the 2024 AACTA Best Narrative Comedy Series Award.
Helena Brooks is a Director/Writer who most recently set-up the CBS Studios/ABC original comedy GOLD DIGGERS.
Job Titles:
- DIRECTOR
- Director With Wailwan
Ismail Khan is a screenwriter and director, born and raised in south-west Sydney, with Wailwan and Pakistani heritage. A graduate of AFTRS, Ismail's masters film SUNNIES won the Capa Prize for best fictional short in Asia-Pacific and had its world premiere at Sydney Film Festival 2021, followed by screenings at academy accredited festivals Short Shorts Film Festival in Tokyo, Flickerfest and LA Shorts. SUNNIES also won the Australian Short Film Today Audience Award and the Nicholas Baudin Prize for Best Short Film at the 24th Festival des Antipodes in Saint Tropez.
In 2021, Ismail was one of six emerging filmmakers selected for a director's attachment with Taika Waititi on THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER and later that year, directed his first episodes of scripted television on the kids' drama/adventure series BARRUMBI KIDS for NITV/SBS. The series tells the story of two best friends growing up on country in a remote Northern Territory community.
In mid 2023 Ismail worked with Gracie Otto as director's attachment on HEARTBREAK HIGH SEASON 2, shadowing Gracie on block one, as well as directing second unit for multiple scenes across season 2. After Heartbreak High, Ismail went on to direct his first episode of adult drama on season 4 of the STAN series BUMP, due to air boxing day 2023.
Ismail Khan is a Sydney based screenwriter and director with Wailwan and Pakistani heritage
Job Titles:
- Founder and Managing Director of YCM
Jean Mostyn is the founder and managing director of YCM, she has a BA in Communications from Charles Sturt University and worked in PR strategy before moving into artist representation in 2000. Jean spent ten years at HLA Management in Sydney before founding YCM in 2010. Jean loves working with artists and expanding their opportunities to create meaningful work across multiple platforms.
Jeremy has been extensively involved in theatre as an actor and director, both locally at STC, Belvoir and MTC, as well as overseas at Trafalgar Studios in London and Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. His Theatre Company Pork Chop Productions broke new ground for Australian independent theatre in the 90's and toured many shows nationally. Jeremy still works as an actor on selected projects, including in the final season of FX's MR INBETWEEN, in Philip Seymour Hoffman's production of RIFLEMIND by Andrew Upton, and the Edinbugh / National Theate Company production of THE SECRET RIVER BY Andrew Bovell.
Jeremy is a director, producer and writer of film, television and theatre. His feature films have been nominated for 25 AACTA awards. Full Bio
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- DIRECTOR
- Writer, Director
Josh adapted his own play THE ELEVEN O'CLOCK into a short film in 2017 which was nominated for an Academy Award along with Director Derin Seale. The film screened at Cinequest, Flickerfest, Valladolid International Film Festival, Toronto Short Film Festival and LA Shorts Fest where it won Best Comedy.
Josh wrote, directed and starred in feature film THE LITTLE DEATH, which had its world premiere at the 2014 Sydney Film Festival and played at Toronto International Film Festival and the SXSW Festival. The film was nominated for 6 AACTA awards and an AWGIE award for Best Original Screenplay and won the Audience Award for Narrative Spotlight at SXSW film festival.
THE LITTLE DEATH has been remade in Spain as KIKI, EL AMOR SE HACE where it placed #1 at the box office. The film has been optioned for a further seven foreign language remakes. The Hollywood Reporter described the film as "a deviant Antipodean version of LOVE, ACTUALLY… It's quite a trick Lawson has pulled off… [and] shows both his funny bone and his heart are in the right place."
AFTER THE CREDITS, a short film written and directed by Josh, won the Best Comedy at the LA Shorts Fest, Best Narrative Short (Comedy) at the Fargo Film Festival and Best Achievement in Screenplay at St Kilda Film Festival. The screenplay was nominated for an AWGIE award by the Australian Writers Guild. AFTER THE CREDITS was featured on Funny Or Die.
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.
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.
Her career started with her writing debut on short film FETCH, being selected for competition at Cannes, along with four other international festivals.
Following this, Judi became the principal writer on the multi award winning Australian series, THE SECRET LIFE OF US, which has recently had its 20 year anniversary. The series was re-released on Netflix Australia in June 2021, which saw the show climb to one of the Top 10 most viewed shows on the streaming site.
Her additional credits include creating, producing and writing two seasons of ABC's AACTA-award winning THE TIME OF OUR LIVES. She also wrote and produced Channel 10's THE SURGEON, starring Justine Clarke and Sam Worthington, which saw Judi nominated for AFI's Best Telemovie/Miniseries, and a Logie for Most Outstanding Drama Series. She wrote and produced THE WRONG GIRL for Channel 10, and also recently produced THE LISTIES WORK FOR PEANUTS, a children's show currently screening on the ABC.
In terms of long form credits, Judi wrote telemovie BEACONSFIELD, which saw her nominated for an AWGIE. It screened on Channel Nine and is one of the highest rating telemovies ever shown on the network.
Judi was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal in the Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to Australian society in writing for television.
Karen Colston is Senior Agent and represents a list of writers, directors and HODs. Karen has a BA and more than thirty years experience in the entertainment industry. Karen has worked with Jane Campion, Jan Chapman and at Australian Literary Management prior to joining Yellow and she has written, directed and/or produced a musical for ABC and short films and webseries including SARAH'S CHANNEL which she did in conjunction with Yellow.
Kip Williams is a multi-award winning director of theatre, opera and film. He is the current Artistic Director and Co-CEO of Sydney Theatre Company (STC). His appointment at age 30 years old made him the youngest Artistic Director in the company's history.
Most recently, Williams' acclaimed adaption of The Picture of Dorian Gray starring Sarah Snook as the solo performer opened on the West End at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. The show premiered in February 2024 to five star reviews. The production was conceived, written and directed by Williams, the production had its premiere at Sydney Theatre Company in November 2020 where it was met with standing ovations and a slew of five star reviews. Initially performed by Eryn Jean Norvill, and later joined by Nikki Shiels as alternate performer, the show played three sold out return seasons at STC across 2020-2023, in addition to seasons at Adelaide Festival in Her Majesty's Theatre, Auckland Arts Festival at the Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre, Aotea Centre, and a record 10 week, sold out run at Arts Centre Melbourne as part of Rising Festival, presented by Michael Cassel Group. In a rare five star review The Age declared the production to be a "dazzling masterpiece". The production received multiple awards at the 2022 Sydney Theatre Awards and 2023 Green Room Awards, including Best Production and Best Director for Williams at both. To date, The Picture of Dorian Gray has been seen by over 145,000 audience members.
Williams has worked extensively at STC for over the last decade, having been appointed Directing Associate in 2012 by then Artistic Directors Andrew Upton and Cate Blanchett. He was subsequently made Resident Director from 2013-2016. He has been Artistic Director and Co-CEO since November 2016.
In 2012, at just 25 years of age Williams made his main stage debut directing screen legend Jack Thompson in Under Milk Wood, making him the youngest person to have directed at the Sydney Opera House. He has since gone on to direct over 20 productions for STC, including his multi-award winning cinema-theatre hybrid production of Suddenly Last Summer, his lauded reinterpretations of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar, Romeo & Juliet and The Tempest starring Richard Roxburgh, the celebrated 7 hour epic The Harp in the South Part 1 & Part 2 by Kate Mulvany, his radical retelling of Lord of the Flies starring Mia Wasikowska, Yerin Ha and Daniel Monks, and his ongoing collaborations with actor Hugo Weaving in Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Shakespeare's Macbeth, and Tennessee Williams' Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.
Williams' work is noted for its stunning choreography and groundbreaking visual style, its extensive use of music and his signature incorporation of live video and cinematic techniques. Williams has been nominated a record six consecutive times for the Helpmann Award for Best Director, Australia's top theatre prize, and won the award for his production of Suddenly Last Summer. He won Victoria's Green Room Award for Best Director for his adaptation of Strindberg's Miss Julie (Melbourne Theatre Company), also winning for Best Production and Best Digital Media Design & Integration. He won the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Director and Best Production for both The Harp in the South, and for the aforementioned The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as winning a third Best Director award for his adaptation of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde.
Williams' work for opera has been much lauded, including acclaimed productions for Victorian Opera, Dark MOFO, and the Biennale of Sydney. Williams is a longtime collaborator with Sydney Chamber Opera and their Artistic Director Jack Symmonds, having directed many of the company's formative works. His radical produciton for SCO of Fausto Romitelli's composition An Index of Metals was the first ever theatrical staging of the piece. His production of Handel's Hercules was set to premiere at London's Coliseum for English National Opera in October 2020, but was unable to proceed due to the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Other companies Williams has worked with include Carriageworks, Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, Helium Festival, NIDA, Milkcrate Theatre, The Old Fitz, Perth Festival, Auckland Festival, and Princeton Theatre, New Jersey. Williams has directed several music videos and short films, and his work has been included in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) RAGE 50 annual list of best music videos.
Williams is a graduate of Sydney University and National Institute of Dramatic Art, where he holds an MFA in Directing. Williams was a Board Director of NIDA from 2016 to 2023.
Kip Williams is a multi-award winning director of theatre, opera and film. He is the current Artistic Director and Co-CEO of Sydney Theatre Company. His appointment at age 30 years old made him the youngest Artistic Director in the company's history.
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.
Her first work, ORANGE THROWER, will have its 2022 stage premiere with Griffin Theatre Company and National Theatre of Parramatta. ORANGE THROWER was the winner of the 2019 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award.
Kirsty's second play, THE ZAP, for Belvoir St Theatre was incredibly well received. It was nominated for the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting in 2022, was the winner of the Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting in 2022 and won the Max Afford Playwrights Award in 2020. THE ZAP was developed with Playwriting Australia and Darlinghurst Theatre Company's Next In Line program.
She has been a part of multiple creative programs including Griffin Theatre Company's Studio Artist Program (2020), Sydney Theatre Company's Rough Draft Program (2019) and Malthouse Theatre's Besen Writers Group (2018). She currently his developing a new play that has been commissioned by the Melbourne Theatre Company.
In addition to being an award-winning writer, Kirsty is an accomplished performer having starred in drama including the Australian Premiere of HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD, THE CHERRY ORCHARD with Belvoir St Theatre, HOME, I'M DARLING with Sydney Theatre Company, and COMA LAND with Black Swan State Theatre Company.
Her acting credits in film and television include THE GREENHOUSE directed by Thomas Wilson-White; HOOK UP directed by Laura Nagy (short for MQFF/Paper Moose) and HOME AND AWAY.
Kirsty attended WAAPA and has a BA in Creative Writing/Performance Studies.
Kit Brookman is a London-based playwright and screenwriter.
His original series WATER'S EDGE is currently in development with Silverprint Pictures, UNINVITED GUESTS was a finalist in the 2021 Studio21 Drama Series competition, TROPPO for ABC has recently wrapped on season 2. His work for theatre includes new plays commissioned by established theatre companies as well as projects created in collaboration with independent ensembles. His plays have been widely performed in Australia, where he is originally from.
His plays include THE STONES (Signal House/King's Head Theatre), WHALESONG (East 15 School of Acting) MOUNTAIN (Geelong Arts Centre), CLOSE (The Signal House) THE PLANT (Ensemble Theatre, Sydney), THE GREAT FIRE (Belvoir St Theatre), A RABBIT FOR KIM JONG-IL(Griffin Theatre Company), NORA (after Ibsen's A Doll's House; co-writer, Belvoir), SMALL AND TIRED(Belvoir), NIGHT MAYBE (Stuck Pigs Squealing Theatre), and HEAVEN (Old 505 Theatre). His poetry has appeared in journals including HEAT, Southerly, and Harvest. His plays are published by Currency Press and at the Australian Script Centre.
Kit has been an Associate Playwright at Belvoir St Theatre and a Resident Writer at Griffin Theatre Company. Awards include the 2017 Rodney Seaborn Award, the Ensemble Theatre New Writing Commission and the Philip Parsons Young Playwrights' Fellowship.
Directing work includes the world premieres of THE STONES, HEAVEN, SMALL AND TIRED and Zoë Coombs-Marr's IS THIS THING ON? for Belvoir St Theatre. Kit was an assistant director on Belvoir's productions of BABYTEETH, PRIVATE LIVES, and CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF.
He is a founding member of The Signal House, a new work company based in London. And he is a co-editor of The Signal House Edition.
Michele Lee is a Hmong-Australian writer working across television, film, stage, books, audio and live art.
Michele's television work includes developing and writing an episode of upcoming comedy WHITE FEVER for ABC-TV with creator Ra Chapman. Prior to this Michele co-wrote an episode of Matchbox/ SBS limited episode series HUNGRY GHOSTS (2020) and co-wrote episodes for the ABC lockdown comedy RETROGRADE (2020). Michele co-wrote the pilot for SECRET THREADS for producer Rebecca Ingram and wrote the pilot for CLOUD NINE, a Film Vic funded project, co-created with Trudy Hellier. She has also written two stories for a 6 x 1-minute Tik Tok series with Blacklab Productions.
Michele's play HOW DO I LET YOU DIE? had it's world premiere season in Melbourne at the end of 2023. The podcast of the same piece is under option by Audiocraft and was previously developed through On Air, an Audible/Screen Australia initiative.
Her play RICE was presented by Queensland Theatre, Griffin Theatre and Hothouse Theatre in 2017 and enjoyed a UK tour in 2022 produced by Actors Touring Company and Orange Tree Theatre. It won the Queensland Premier's Drama Award, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, an Australian Writer's Guild Award, and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award Nick Enright Prize.
SECURITY was a finalist for the Patrick White Award in 2020 and had a world premiere season in Melbourne in 2022. Her play SINGLE LADIES premiered at Red Stitch in Melbourne in 2021. GOING DOWN was presented by Sydney Theatre Company and Malthouse Theatre in 2018. GOING DOWN was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, the NSW Premier's Literary Award Nick Enright Prize, an Australian Writer's Guild Award and five Green Room Awards. Michele's 2012 radio play SEE HOW THE LEAF PEOPLE RUN won an Australian Writer's Guild award for Best Original Radio Drama.
Other theatre and live art works include: SQUISHY TAYLOR AND THE CITY-WIDE GHOST PLAGUE, at at-home audio-led adventure adapted from a YA series and premiering in Melbourne Fringe Festival (2021); BROTH BITCH, a fictional podcast and Melbourne Fringe Festival commission (2020); HOUSE SISTERS a Monash University stage commission (2019); AN ASSISTANT'S NOTES FOR A PANDEMIC, an Arts House Refuge commission (2018); THE NAKED SELF, commissioned by Arts House and presented in the Festival of Live Art (2016); OFF CENTRE, a short play as part of Sydney Theatre Company's POWER PLAYS season (2016); and GOING AND GOING, a radio commission for Radio National (2015). In 2012 she wrote six short audio plays, TALON SALON, which were presented at Next Wave Festival in 2012, You are Here and Darwin Festival in 2013, and was broadcast on Radio National in 2014.
Michele has been in residence at The Playwright's Centre in USA, Radio National and in Laos on an Asialink residency and has featured twice in the main program for the National Playwriting Festival. She has mentored younger artists through Shopfront, Melbourne Theatre Company, The Wheeler Centre, Australian Theatre for Young People, Union House Theatre and City of Melbourne's Signal Program. Michele's creative non-fiction memoir BANANA GIRL is published by Transit Lounge.
Michele is currently developing her own half-hour comedy TV show, NEXT BIG THING, with Screen Australia development funding. Michele is currently adapting the novel THE HEALING PARTY for a stage commission with Malthouse Theatre and has a commission for a new play with Melbourne Theatre Company.
Monica Zanetti is an award-winning screenwriter and director. Monica created, wrote and directed WHILE THE MEN ARE AWAY for SBS.
Monica currently has several works in development including an American feature film with Billy Porter's company INCOGNEGRO and her own original series for AMAZON STUDIOS.
Monica wrote and directed ELLIE & ABBIE (& ELLIE'S DEAD AUNT) which won the 2021 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts award for Best Independent Film and has been released internationally after screening at Melbourne International Film Festival and opening the Mardi Gras Film Festival. MOnica directed IGGY AND ACE for SBS and was nominated for an ADG award for that work.
Her earlier work includes writing on the NETFLIX series SISTERS and the ACORN series MY LIFE IS MURDER.
Natassia Halabi is a screenwriter and actor born in Sydney Australia to a Muslim Syrian father and an Australian/European mother. Natassia has a passion to create television series which focus on strong, diverse female characters for the US, international and Australian markets.
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- DIRECTOR
- Writer, Director
Nick created and co-hosted the radio show VERSUS on FBi radio for three years.
Nick founded comedy group Pig Island with Claudia O'Doherty and Charlie Garber in the 2007 and they garnered critical and audience acclaim for their shows. They won the Golden Gibbo at the MICF in 2007. Their shows SIMPLY FANCY and THE GLASS BOAT remain vivid in the memories of those that saw them.
"In a generation of minimalists, Coyle is a maximalist" TIME OUT SYDNEY
Nick Coyle is a writer, director and performer renowned for comedy, plays and his one-man shows. His regular seasons at Melbourne Comedy Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival created a cult-like following for his work. Recent television credits include writing episodes for season 3 and 4 of Stan/ BBC series BUMP and an episode of Netflix and Fremantle's WELLMANIA starring Celeste Barber.
Nick is the creator, writer and director of the six-part web series, SARAH'S CHANNEL. This series stars frequent collaborator Claudia O'Doherty.
Nick's play THE FEATHER IN THE WEB had its world premiere at Griffin Theatre Company in 2018. It will be restaged in February 2020 at Red Stitch Actors' Theatre in Melbourne. The play has been published by Currency Press and was nominated for a NSW Premier's Literary Award.
Reg Cribb is an award-winning writer for stage and screen; he has won an AACTA for Best Adapted Screenplay and been nominated for another two, the Patrick White Playwright's Award, two WA Premier's Literary Awards, the major WA Premier's award, a NSW Premier's Literary Award, a QLD Literary Premier's Award and he has been nominated for six AWGIE awards.
Reg adapted his play LAST CAB TO DARWIN as a feature film starring Michael Caton and Jackie Weaver. LAST CAB premiered at the Sydney Film Festival and made $7.5M at the Australian box office and screened at Toronto and Busan International Film Festivals. The film was nominated for eight AACTA awards and Reg won Best Adapted Screenplay with co-writer Jeremy Sims; they were also nominated for an AWGIE for Best Adapted Feature.
Reg's true-crime screenplay, THE GREAT MINT SWINDLE, produced by Cordell Jigsaw aired on Channel Nine in 2012. Reg adapted stage musical BRAN NUE DAE for the screen, which was nominated for an AFI award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and was directed by Rachel Perkins.
Reg adapted his first play THE RETURN which was re-titled LAST TRAIN TO FREO as a feature film directed by Jeremy Sims and produced by Sue Taylor. This screenplay was nominated for an AFI award for Best Adapted Screenplay and won the 2005 WA Premier's Script Award.
Rita Carmody is a Sydney-based costume designer for film and television.
Rita is currently serving as Costume Designer on COLIN FROM ACCOUNTS series 2. Prior to this, she wrapped up season two of the Netflix/Fremantle smash hit HEARTBREAK HIGH, for which she won the AACTA Award for Best Costume Design for her work on the first series. She also costumed rom-com FIVE BLIND DATES for Amazon Pictures and Goalpost, the ABC reboot of classic Australian sitcom MOTHER AND SON and the ABC comedy series PREPPERS starring Nakkiah Lui, Jack Charles and Yael Stone and won an AACTA award for its first season.
In addition to the above, Rita has costume designed two season of Stan's THE OTHER GUY, which was nominated or won for four awards, including the AACTA award for Best Comedy Series. She was costume designer for THE JUSTINE CLARKE SHOW and HERE COME THE HABIBS!, which was nominated for a Logie for Most Popular Comedy.
Rita's television work includes costume designing for children's show HARDBALL for ABC, which won two International Emmy Kids Awards for Best Kids' Series and Best Live Action Kids' Series. It was also nominated for an AACTA Award for Best Children's Program, and a SPA Award for Children's Series Production of the Year.
Her feature film costume designer credits include LONG STORY SHORT, LUNACY and HEARTS AND BONES starring Hugo Weaving, which was nominated for or won over 40 local and international film awards, over 10 of which were for Best Film.
In addition to her work for film and television, she has styled campaigns for some of Australia's most recognizable brands, including McDonald's and Telstra, as well as styling for the opening ceremony of the Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku.
Rita is a 2007 NIDA design graduate and she is a member of AACTA and the APDG.
Ruth Clark and Karen James run accounts and jobshare. Together they have more than 40 years experience in bookkeeping. Ruth has a psychology degree which certainly comes in handy some days and, among many other achievements, Karen was the Australian Roller Skating Champion for three years in a row. El Demiri is our part time office junior and she is currently studying at AFTRS.
Sarah Scheller is an award-winning Australian screenwriter.
Sarah most recently showran the series, STRIFE for Binge in Australia where she worked with Made Up Stories as producers. STRIFE, was BINGE's all time biggest original series premiere and is currently in development for a second season. She is currently developing a further two shows, including a series with Beyond Entertainment and the ABC and another with CBS.
Sarah's first television script, THE LETDOWN pilot, won the AACTA Award in 2016 for Best Television Screenplay. THE LETDOWN was subsequently commissioned for two series by ABC-TV and Netflix. The series is popular on Netflix and been nominated for and won multiple awards including Best Comedy Program at the 2019 AACTA Awards. Sarah was nominated for Best Direction in a Television Drama or Comedy at the 2019 AACTA awards for her work on the second series.
Sarah is developing a literary adaptation of FAMILY NEXT DOOR with the ABC and Beyond and several original properties of her own, and she is also writing an episode of an anthology series for Hoodlum and Margot Robbie's company Lucky Chap. Previously screenwriting work includes contributions to the ABC's THE ELEGANT GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO KNIFE FIGHTING and Stan's NO ACTIVITY.
Sarah started her career in public relations and then fashion journalism. As a freelance writer, she has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, Harper's Bazaar and The Guardian. She holds a Bachelor of Arts/Communications (Journalism).
Sophie's theatre work includes: FEATHER IN THE WEB by Nick Coyle at Griffin, A STRATEGIC PLAN directed by Chris Mead, GLORIA written by Benedict Andrews directed by Lee Lewis, THE LITERATI directed by Lee Lewis, CARESS/ACHE directed by Anthony Skuse, EMERALD CITY directed by Lee Lewis all for the Griffin Theatre Company and BROKEN directed by Shannon Murphy at the Darlinghurst Theatre Company. Sophie co-designed Belvoirs' THIS HEAVEN.
Steven Arriagada is an Indigenous Chilean-Italian screenwriter and director, with a keen eye for and interest in genre work.
In 2022, he was 1 of 18 selected to participate in Netflix's Grow Creative initiative for emerging writers. 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. He is currently developing projects with Endemolshine Australia and New Sparta in the UK.
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.
Steven shadowed showrunners Louise Fox and Tony Ayres on ABC/Netflix's GLITCH (Season 3). He was director, writer and producer on short WATCH OUT FOR THE AUSTRALIANS!! starring Kuni Hashimoto (WOLVERINE), which was award nominated at Festival du Nouveau Cinema and St Kilda Film Festival. He has also directed Hugh Jackman in video segments of his Broadway to Oz show.
Formerly, Steven was mostly working in below-the-line production jobs, including shooting the Australian Open for ESPN. He has also worked in development roles such as Story Analyst for Studio Canal through the Australian Writers Guild /Scripted Ink. Steven won the Arclight / Chinalight feature film initiative through Screen Australia and won the Script Pipeline First Look competition. He has also been nominated for Best Short Film at Montreal Festival of New Cinema twice.
Steven also works as a creative across several formats, including comic book creation, theatre and experimental visual arts.
Tania Lambert ACS is an award winning cinematographer with a keen eye for composition and lighting and a desire to tell stories, which move people in every way.
Tania has extensive experience in drama, TVCs, music videos, documentary & promos. Tania is currently setting up the look on the Matchbox series, Critical Incident. Prior to this, she worked on the SBS/Lingo series, Erotic Stories and Bad Behaviour, a psychological drama series produced by Matchbox Pictures/STAN. Her last film Here Out West, an anthology film directed by five female directors incl. Ana Kokkinos and Leah Purcell opened Sydney Film Festival in 2021. She has also worked as 2nd Unit DOP on series such as STAN's The Gloaming and ABC Wakefield.
Trent O'Donnell is one of Australia's most successful television directors and showrunners who has recently returned to Australia after living and working in the US for more than a decade.
Most recently he finished setting-up the second season of the Binge/Easy Tiger series COLIN FROM ACCOUNTS created by Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer. He set-up the first season on the hit show, and received an AACTA Award nomination for Best Direction in Drama or Comedy for his work.
Prior to this, he set-up and Executive Produced the Jungle/Lionsgate/ Stan 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.
Trent created, wrote and directed the television series NO ACTIVITY for Stan in Australia and subsequently developed and directed it for CBS All Access. The Australian series was nominated for 5 AACTA awards and three Logies winning Best Performance in a Comedy Series for Patrick Brammall in 2016.
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. Full Bio
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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). They have toured nationally with The Chaser and formed their sketch comedy group, Freudian Nip, in 2015.
Vic has also directed two Screen Australia funded web series. Their work on THE WAR ON 2020 was nominated for an Australian Directors Guild award, while their second web series ME&HERPES premiered at the Mardi Gras Film Festival. Vic was the 2020 recipient of the ATYP Rebel Wilson Commission, for which they are currently writing a musical, CONVERTED!
Vic currently has numerous works in development including a comedy series with ABC, a series for AMAZON STUDIOS and a feature for STAN. Vic uses they/she pronouns.