Australian Screenwriters Podcast

Each episode I sit down with one of Australia's best screenwriters to discuss the industry, their career, the nuts and bolts of their screenwriting process and anything else that comes along.

78: Erin Good (Krystal Klairvoyant) 01/11/2024

78: Erin Good (Krystal Klairvoyant) Erin Good is an exciting new writer/director in the Australian Screen Indstry. She's produced a couple of series for Tik Tok, including her latest, Krystal Klairvoyant, which has been nominated for a Rose D'Or and C21 Internatinoal Media Awards. We had a great chat at Content London 2023 about writing a scripted series for a new social media platofrm like Tik Tok. Check It out on... Tik Tok: Instagram: /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/29442388

77: Grainne Brunsdon (Director of Content, Screen Australia) 12/20/2023

77: Grainne Brunsdon (Director of Content, Screen Australia) This is the first in a series of interviews I recorded at Content London 2023. Grainne is a highly experienced, strategic executive in the creative industries and current Director of Contant at Screen Australia. Before this she was the Head of Screen NSW. In this interview we talk about the benefits of the conference, how Screen Aus are there to help and loads about fudning. /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/29162618

76: Ben Lewin Pt 1 (The Sessions) 04/11/2023

76: Ben Lewin Pt 1 (The Sessions) Ben Lewin is an Australian writer and director. Despite contracting Polio at the age of 6, he's had a long and distinguished career in both TV and film. His TV credits include Rafferty's Rules and his best known films include Paperback Romance (1994) and The Sessions (2012), which starred John Hawkes and Helen Hunt, receiving an eye-watering number of award nominations. /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/26506824

75: Libby Butler & Lewis Mulholland (Loving Captivity) 09/18/2020

75: Libby Butler & Lewis Mulholland (Loving Captivity) Libby Butler (Neighbours and Erinsbrough High) and newcomer lewis Mulholland chat about their web series "Loving Captivity", which they wrote, funded and produced whilst living through the Melbourne lockdowns. /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/16046984

74: Caden Pearson (Emerging star writer and director) 09/09/2020

74: Caden Pearson (Emerging star writer and director) Caden is an early-career Indigenous screenwriter, director, and producer from Cairns in Far North Queensland, Australia. He proudly got his start writing for The Epoch Times Australia during the Beijing Olympics in 2008. In his current lifetime his family is from the Bagarrmugu and Kuku Yalanji clans from Far North Queensland, with Scottish, French and Irish heritage as well. /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/15937658

73: Roger Simpson (Halifax: Retribution) 08/25/2020

73: Roger Simpson (Halifax: Retribution) Roger Simpson is a giant of Australian drama and shouldn't need an introduction! If you've watched Aussie drama, you've seen one of his shows. /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/15745304

72: Content London - Elizabeth Kilgarriff (Firebird Pictures) 04/14/2020

72: Content London - Elizabeth Kilgarriff (Firebird Pictures) As Commissioning Editor for Drama in England and Scotland, Elizabeth Kilgarriff commissioned projects like Bodyguard, Poldark and Luther to name just a few of her hits. But now she's branched out and heads up her own production company, Firebird Pictures. /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/13977659

71: Micharne Cloughley (Law & Order: SVU) 04/02/2020

71: Micharne Cloughley (Law & Order: SVU) This episode is another story of Aussie writer made good overseas. /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/13660844

70: Content London 2019 - Carly Heaton (Foxtel Executive in Charge of Drama Production) 01/09/2020

70: Content London 2019 - Carly Heaton (Foxtel Executive in Charge of Drama Production) This is the third in my series of interviews from the recent Content London Drama Summit. /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/12672566

69: Content London 2019 - Stuart Menzies (The Cry) 12/30/2019

69: Content London 2019 - Stuart Menzies (The Cry) This is the second interview in a series from the recent Content London Drama Summit. /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/12558512

68: Content London 2019 - Phillippa Collie Cousins (UKTV) 12/19/2019

68: Content London 2019 - Phillippa Collie Cousins (UKTV) Phillippa Collie Cousins is a BAFTA Award winning director of The Deadness of Dad starring Rhys Ifans, she's currently the Drama Commissioner for UKTV, Britain's largest multichannel broadcaster. /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/12460469

67: Libby Butler (Erinsborough High) 12/02/2019

67: Libby Butler (Erinsborough High) This episode I talk to Libby Butler, the Script Producer of the new Neighbours spinoff, Erinsborough High. /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/12245477

65: Joshua Tyler (Top End Wedding) 09/04/2019

65: Joshua Tyler (Top End Wedding) Joshua Tyler co-wrote hit Australian film Top End Wedding with the star of the movie Miranda Tapsell. We talk about how the film and his collaboration with Miranda came about, all aspects of the film and we delve into the rest of his career as well. /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/11117516

66: Monica Zanetti (My Life Is Murder) 08/20/2019

66: Monica Zanetti (My Life Is Murder) Monica is an emerging writer, having written for Sisters and Tonightly with Tom Ballard. Her latest effort on TV is ep 5 of Network 10's My Life is Murder "Another Bloody Podcast", which you can see tomorrow night (Wed 21 Aug) at 8:40pm. /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/10925965

64: Nina Oyama (Tonightly) 05/20/2019

64: Nina Oyama (Tonightly) Nina Oyama is a stand-up comedian who's also written for shows like Tonightly, The Chaser's Election Desk and a sitcom in ABC Iview's Fresh Blood Pilot Season initiative; a show she created with her friend Angus Thompson. /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/9859391

63: Tim Lee (Mystery Road) 05/08/2019

63: Tim Lee (Mystery Road) Tim Lee is an accomplished screenwriter who has written for Rescue Special Ops, Serangoon Road, Doctor Doctor and Mystery Road. His path into screenwriting took many twists and turns however, resulting in a story of perseverance that has led to Awgie, AACTA and even NSW Premier's Literary Award nominations for his writing. /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/9696734

62: Stephen Vagg 03/19/2019

62: Stephen Vagg Following on from my podcasts with Stephen Vagg in Eps 49 and 50, finally we talk about his own career. It's a great chat, talking about his time as Script Producer of Neighbours, his writing and living in LA. /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/9055685

61: Emma Gordon & Shaun Topp 01/23/2019

61: Emma Gordon & Shaun Topp Emma and Shaun are a husband and wife writing team who met whilst working in the Neighbours writer's room. Individually, they've written Neighbours, Home & Away and Winners & Losers, where they also worked in house as Script Producer and Associate Script Producer. But now they're writing together and they've had a script selected for the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum List and two TV Pilots and a feature film go into development. /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/8373119

60: Felicity Packard (Pine Gap) 01/05/2019

60: Felicity Packard (Pine Gap) Felicity Packard is a super experienced writer and producer, having worked on Janet King, Wolf Creek, Anzac Girls, Underbelly and going back to GP. /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/8142257

59: AWG Write Night - The Gestation Fixation 10/10/2018

59: AWG Write Night - The Gestation Fixation Every series that has found its way onto our screens has only gotten there after a long and sometimes painful development. But what exactly is involved in this process and how can you make the most of that gestation period? /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/7149980

58: Joe Murphy (Younger) pt 2 10/03/2018

58: Joe Murphy (Younger) pt 2 Finally the second part to the interview with Aussie writer of Stan. and TV Land's Younger, created by Darren Star (Sex And The City) and starring Sutton Foster and Hilary Duff. /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/7122043

57: AWG Write Night - Alana Valentine in Conversation with Noelle Janaczewska 09/18/2018

57: AWG Write Night - Alana Valentine in Conversation with Noelle Janaczewska Recorded live at Knox St Bar on in Chippendale, Sydney on 11 September, two internationally acclaimed playwrights, Alana Valentine and Noëlle Janaczewska, discuss documentary theatre and the creative process. How do we best transform real experience into drama? How do we place non-fiction on stage? /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/7058079

56: Nick Watson (Final Space) 08/31/2018

56: Nick Watson (Final Space) Nick Watson is another Aussie who's made it in Hollywood. After moving to LA and doing whatever work he could, Nick and his writing partner landed a gig writing the second season of Final Space for TBS network (Netflix internationally). /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/6991047

55: Michael Chamberlin (Tonightly) 08/17/2018

55: Michael Chamberlin (Tonightly) Michael Chamberlin is a stand-up comedian, podcast host (Junktime AFL Podcast) and comedy writer; currently head writer of Tonightly with Tom Ballard. /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/6937440

54: Ellie Beaumont & Drew Proffitt (Dead Lucky) 08/02/2018

54: Ellie Beaumont & Drew Proffitt (Dead Lucky) This episode, I sat down with Ellie Beaumont and Drew Proffitt the showrunners of new SBS crime thriller, Dead Lucky. /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/6879882

53: Fin Edquist (Maya The Bee: The Honey Games) 07/26/2018

53: Fin Edquist (Maya The Bee: The Honey Games) Maya The Bee is beloved children's character in Germany and I recently chatted to Fin Edquist, the Australian writer of Maya's latest big screen adventure, The Honey Games. /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/6853521

52: Joe Murphy (Younger) pt 1 07/13/2018

52: Joe Murphy (Younger) pt 1 This episode is part 1 of 2 with Joe Murphy, writer on the US hit show Younger. /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/6805221

51: Mark O'Toole 06/28/2018

51: Mark O'Toole Mark O'Toole is one of Australia's premier comedy writers. He started on shows like Full Frontal, Eric and Totally Full Frontal and has written everything from John Safran vs God to Adam Hills Tonight and Spicks and Specks. /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/6753861

50: History of Australian Screenwriting 06/07/2018

50: History of Australian Screenwriting Stephen Vagg rejoins us to discuss the History of Australian Screenwriting; a topic he knows a lot about having written an article for the AFTRS Lumina publication. /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/6677487

49: Vale James Walker 05/24/2018

49: Vale James Walker Stephen Vagg - most recently the Script Producer on Neighbours - memorialises his good friend and colleague, James Walker. /episode/index/show/aswpodcast/id/6628796

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