| 50
ALUMNI |
| We
have people from all walks of life and levels of experience particpating
in our courses. Here is a list of fifty people who have either done
the courses or worked with Roland, following The Writers' Studio process. |
| •
Dr George Miller: film maker,
Happy Feet, Mad Max, Babe, Lorenzo's Oil, Witches of Eastwick |
| •
Carl
Barron:
professional comedian |
| •
Mary
Donaldson:
Crown Princess of Denmark |
| •
Jacinta
Tynan :
newsreader and author of Good Man Hunting |
|
•
Sam
de Brito: author,
journalist, script editor, TV: White Collar Blue, Water Rats, Books:
No Tattoos Before You're Thirty… What I'll Tell My Children? |
| •
Sharon Aris:
author It's My Party and I'll Knit if I
Want To, Being Married |
| •
Yasmin Boland:
journalist, author: Carole King is an Alien
and All the Rage |
• Caroline
Gerard: writer/producer, her
first feature film, The Bet.
2nd place: London/Australian Film Festival, 2006.3rd place: Urban Cinefile Audience
Award for Best Feature: Sidebar Program, Sydney Film Festival, 2006
|
| •
Erina Reddan: author,
non fiction, Baby Daze, fiction Water from the Moon |
• Sandra
Sully: journalist, Channel
10 television presenter
|
| •
Elizabeth Farrelly:
columnist and feature writer for
The Sydney Morning Herald |
| •
Rachel
Ward:
actor, film maker |
| • Nick
Lathouris: actor,
dramaturg, script editor |
| •
Anthony Ackroyd:
professional comedian |
| •
Mandy Newman:
author: How to Say I Do |
| •
Dr Arnie Goldman:
lecturer in English Literature |
| • Hugh
Rimington : CNN
Corespondent |
| • Meryl
Tankard : choreographer, including Tarzan
the Musical on Broadway |
| •
Sue MacKinnon:
Film Finance Corporation Investment Manager,
Documentaries |
| •
Fiona Seres:
scriptwriter, film and television Love My Way, The Surgeon |
| •
Lyn Marie Danzig:
film maker-shorts |
| •
Rob Johnson:
editor, journalist and author The Golden Age of the Argonauts
and Boom-Boom! A Century of Australian Comedy. |
| •
Eve Grysbowski:
yoga teacher and author |
| •
Margaret Sixel:
film editor, Happy Feet, Babe 2 |
| •
Kay Pavlou:
director, Under One Roof, Desperately Seeking
Sheila. MacLeod's Daughter |
| •
Peter McDonald:
animator, Animal Logic |
| •
Phillip Hearnshaw:
first assistant director - Babe |
| •
Rob Pullan:
journalist, author of seven books |
| •
Carla Coulson:
author and photographer, Italian Joy |
| •
Katerina Cosgrove:
author, The Glass Heart |
| •
Rachel Oakes Ash:
journalist/author, Good Girls do Swallow, Anything She Can Do
I Can Do Better |
| •
Scott Roberts: screenwriter
and director, The Hard Word |
| •
Ashley Hay:
journalist/author, The Secret |
| •
Alan Close:
journalist, features |
| •
Bianca Dye:
radio announcer, NOVA |
| •
Helen Frye:
editor/published short stories |
| •
Claudia Karvan:
actress film and TV, producer, Love My Way,
The Secret Life of Us |
| •
Kevin Rozzoli:
former State MP and Speaker, author "Gavel
to Gavel - An Insider's View of Parliament" |
| •
Dr Anne Hale:
anthropologist |
• Caroline
Roessler: managing editor, The
Australian Women's Weekly
|
| •
Matt Palmer:
advertising/commercials director |
| •
Emma Balfour:
model/poet/author, Poems |
| •
Peter Klugg:
forensic phsychiatrist |
| •
Lisa Forrest:
radio and TV broadcaster/author Making the Most of It, djMax,
Meg Banana |
| •
Martyn Ives:
documentary film maker, Emmy Award winner |
| •
Carolyn Baum:
ABC Book Show |
| •
Jim Searle:
architect and playwright |
| • Mark
Gould: documentary film maker,
producer |
| •
Alec Morgan:
filmmaker, Hunt Angels,
Beautiful Bondi, Our Century, Dusty Hearts |
| •
Rebecca Rocheford
Davies: actor, writer, producer |
| • Dr
Kerry James: anthropologist |
