50 Alumni

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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

Penny Robinson: author, Executive Producer of RPA

Matt Duffy: award winning short film director and documentary maker.

John Mavity: award winning short film director and documentary maker.

Sandra Sully: journalist, Channel 10 television presenter

Elizabeth Farrelly: columnist, author and feature writer for The Sydney Morning Herald

Ruth Ostrow: columnist, author and feature writer for The Australian

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