DIVERSITY IN THE TV WRITERS ROOM Presented by the School of DATE: Wednesday, 26 July 2017 Media, Film and Journalism TIME: 6.00pm - 7.30pm as part of the TV Bites Industry Panel Series LOCATION: G104 (MADA Building, Ground Floor Lecture Theatre)

GUEST PANELISTS:

Elise McCredie (Director, actor and screenwriter) Tony Briggs (Actor and screenwriter)

Elise McCredie is an award-winning film and TV director Tony Briggs is an actor, writer and producer. Briggs wrote the and screenwriter. She is writer and co-creator of recent TV Helpmann Award winning play The Sapphires and adapted series Nowhere Boys (ABC/Matchbox), Sunshine (SBS) it for the 2012 film. His acting credits includeBran Nue and Stateless (Matchbox). She is currently working on her Dae, Cleverman, The Slap, Redfern Now, Blue Heelers and original crime mystery series Overflow produced by Claudia Neighbours. In 2017, he was involved in writing and creating Karvan and the new season of Jack Irish. the ABC TV series The Warriors with Robert Connolly.

Bruce Gladwin (Back to Back Theatre) Sonia Teuben (Back to Back Theatre)

Bruce Gladwin is Artistic Director of Back to Back Theatre, Sonia Teuben is a key member of the Back to Back Theatre a company with an ensemble of actors who identify as ensemble, which she joined in 1993, previously working having intellectual disabilities. It is recognised for innovation with The Women’s Circus amongst other organisations. and excellence, touring regularly to major international In 1997, Sonia was a semi-finalist in the Australian Young arts festivals and institutions. In 2015, Gladwin won the Achievers Award and in 2007, she co-devised Small Metal Australia Council Award for Outstanding Achievement in Objects, which premiered at Flinders Street Station in 2004 Theatre. Currently, the company is working on TV production as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival and has Oddlands with Matchbox Pictures. since toured to 33 cities around the world.

MONASH ARTS DIVERSITY IN THE TV WRITERS’ ROOM Presented by the School of DATE: Wednesday, 26 July 2017 Media, Film and Journalism TIME: 6.00pm - 7.30pm as part of the TV Bites Industry Panel Series LOCATION: G104 (MADA Building, Ground Floor Lecture Theatre)

GUEST PANELISTS:

Elise McCredie (Director, actor and screenwriter) Tony Briggs (Actor and screenwriter)

Elise McCredie is an award-winning film and TV director Tony Briggs is an actor, writer and producer. Briggs wrote the and screenwriter. She is writer and co-creator of recent TV Helpmann Award winning play The Sapphires and adapted series Nowhere Boys (ABC/Matchbox), Sunshine (SBS) it for the 2012 film. His acting credits includeBran Nue and Stateless (Matchbox). She is currently working on her Dae, Cleverman, The Slap, Redfern Now, Blue Heelers and original crime mystery series Overflow produced by Claudia Neighbours. In 2017, he was involved in writing and creating Karvan and the new season of Jack Irish. the ABC TV series The Warriors with Robert Connolly.

Bruce Gladwin (Back to Back Theatre) Sonia Teuben (Back to Back Theatre)

Bruce Gladwin is Artistic Director of Back to Back Theatre, Sonia Teuben is a key member of the Back to Back Theatre a company with an ensemble of actors who identify as ensemble, which she joined in 1993, previously working having intellectual disabilities. It is recognised for innovation with The Women’s Circus amongst other organisations. and excellence, touring regularly to major international In 1997, Sonia was a semi-finalist in the Australian Young arts festivals and institutions. In 2015, Gladwin won the Achievers Award and in 2007, she co-devised Small Metal Australia Council Award for Outstanding Achievement in Objects, which premiered at Flinders Street Station in 2004 Theatre. Currently, the company is working on TV production as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival and has Oddlands with Matchbox Pictures. since toured to 33 cities around the world.

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