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Writer / Producer

Soo Hugh is a television and film writer/producer, who serves as showrunner, executive producer, and creative visionary behind the critically acclaimed Apple TV+ series Pachinko, which has won multiple awards, including The Peabody, The Gotham Awards, and The Critics’ Choice Award

Actor / Comedian / Writer

Richard Gadd is a three-time Emmy-winning creator, writer, star, and executive producer of the global Netflix phenomenon Baby Reindeer, which earned a Peabody Award, a Golden Globe, A Bafta, and an Independent Spirit Award.  The show was adapted from his Olivier Award winning stage show.

Writer / Producer / Director

Sally Wainwright is a television writer, producer, and director, known for her creation of the drama series Scott & Bailey, and BAFTA-winning series Last Tango in Halifax, and Happy Valley. She was appointed an OBE in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to writing and television. 

Actor | Executive Producer

Asher Keddie is one of Australia’s most critically acclaimed actors, and a producer.

She stars in the BINGE comedic drama series Strife, which she executive produced with Made Up Stories, her third collaboration with them, following roles in The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Amazon) and Nine Perfect Strangers (HBO).

Asher also stars in the new Paramount+ drama Fake, inspired by journalist Stephanie Wood’s book, and co-produced with Imogen Banks, creator and producer of Offspring. Her role in that series earned Asher three TV Week Logie Awards, including Gold in 2013.

Previously, Asher won a 2007 ASTRA Award for her performance in Love My Way (Foxtel). Other television credits include Stateless (ABC/Netflix), The Cry (BBC One), The Hunting (SBS) and the lead role of Ita Buttrose in ABC’s Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo, for which she won an AACTA Award.

Actor | Writer | Producer

Harriet Dyer is an actor, writer and producer, co-creator of the comedy series Colin From Accounts (Binge/CBS), which earned her a Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Actress.

The show received a Logie Award for Most Outstanding Comedy Program, an AACTA Award for Best Narrative Comedy Series, and Harriet received an AWGIE Award for her writing on the episode “The Flash”. Most recently, the series has been nominated for Best International Program at the BAFTAs, and Harriet received a Silver Logie nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy.

Other credits include NBC’s American Auto, and The Inbetween, the ABC/BBC series Wakefield, Stan’s The Other Guy, and No Activity, and The Letdown, Kiki & Kitty, Black Comedy, Rake and Janet King for ABC. Feature film credits include Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, Killing Ground, Down Under and Ruben Guthrie.

Harriet is in production on the upcoming CBS comedy series DMV alongside Tim Meadows.

Writer | Executive Producer 

Shaun Grant is a critically acclaimed, multi‑award‑winning screenwriter. He co‑created the critically acclaimed The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Amazon), starring Jacob Elordi and directed by Justin Kurzel.   

His feature film, Nitram, premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, winning the prize for Best Actor and 8 AACTA Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay, and an AWGIE for Best Original Screenplay. Shaun also went on to win the NSW Premier’s Literary Award.  

In 2020, Shaun won the AWGIE Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Penguin Bloom. Prior to this, True History of the Kelly Gang, premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and went on to win multiple awards.  His work on the films, Jasper Jones and Berlin Syndrome, gave him two AACTA nominations and an AWGIE win for Best Adapted Screenplay.  

Shaun won an AWGIE and received an AACTA nomination for the series, Deadline Gallipoli, and earned a collegiate Writer’s Guild of America nomination for Best Drama for writing the finale of Mindhunter (Netflix).

Screenwriter

Hannah is a screenwriter and creator of the hit Netflix series Heartbreak High. 

Spending over a month after its release in the Global Top Ten Series on Netflix for both Season 1 and Season 2, Heartbreak High won an International Emmy Award, an AACTA Audience Choice Award for Best Television Series, and an AACTA Best Drama Series Award, and Hannah earned the AACTA Award for Best Screenplay and garnered an AWGIE Award nomination.

Likewise, for her finale episodes on both season 1 and 2, Hannah was nominated for NSW Premier’s Literary Awards for Best Screenplay. 

Her writing on the ABC Television Drama The Heights also earned Hannah both an AWGIE and a Screen Producers Award nomination.

Hannah was recognised with the 2024 Mona Brand Award for Women Stage and Screen Writers. As a writer and story producer, she also worked on the iconic Australian series Home and Away. 

Director

Corrie Chen is a Taiwanese-Australian filmmaker known for her storytelling across drama and comedy.

The sole director of the Stan original series Bad Behaviour, one of the only seven titles selected for the 2023 Berlinale Series, and director and executive producer of the first SBS Digital Original Homecoming Queens, which won Best Australian Comedy and Best Directing at Melbourne Web Fest. 

Corrie won ADG Award for Best Direction in a Mini-Series for her work on SBS’s historical drama New Gold Mountain, and most recently she has directed episodes of Disney+’s The Artful Dodger and CW/Stan's Good Cop Bad Cop. Other credits include Wentworth, Five Bedrooms, Sisters Seachange, and Mustangs FC.

She was the inaugural recipient of the Screen Presence Trailblazer Award, celebrating Asian-Australian creatives. She has also been honoured with the Greg Tepper Award from VicScreen and named one of the Asian-Australian Leadership Summit’s 40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australians.

Writer | Director | Cinematographer

Dylan River is a writer, director, cinematographer and artist from Mpartnwe (Alice Springs), Australia. He comes from a long line of Kaytetye storytellers.

His first dramatic short film Nulla Nulla was selected for the Berlin & Toronto film festivals and won the 2015 AACTA Award for Best Short Film.

Dylan wrote and directed Robbie Hood (SBS), a series retelling a famous folk tale set in his hometown of Alice Springs, which premiered at Cannes and won the 2019 AACTA award for best online series.

Dylans work on documentary series The Beach (SBS/NITV) won the 2021 AACTA award for best cinematography.

In 2022, Dylan directed the series Mystery Road: Origin, ABC’s highest rating drama to date, which won seven AACTA awards including Best Direction and Best Series, 

In 2024 Dylan completed the Stan Original series Thou Shalt Not Steal, a dark comedy/ road series which he created, wrote and directed.