Mary Donaldson
Crown Princess of Denmark
LA Larkin
Author The Genesis Flaw, Thirst
Jacinta Tynan
Sky News Australia presenter and author of Good Man Hunting
Sam de Brito
Sun-Herald columnist, Script Editor of White Collar Blue, Water Rats, Author of No Tattoos Before You’re Thirty, The Lost Boys,
Elizabeth Packett
Elizabeth is a writer and script editor with credits including Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Secret Life of Us, McLeod’s Daughters,
Julia Zemiro
Radio host, actor, singer and Rockwiz presenter
Carl Barron
‘Carl Barron Live’ is the highest selling stand-up comedy DVD in Australian history
Yasmin Boland
Journalist, author: Carole King is an Alien and All the Rage
Claudia Karvan
Actress, writer, producer, Spirited, Love My Way, Paperback Hero
Sharon Aris
Author, It’s My Party and I’ll Knit if I Want To, Being Married
Caroline Gerard
Writer/producer of feature film The Bet, starring Matthew Newton, Aden Young and Sibylla Budd
Simon Tedeschi
Award winning classical pianist and musician
Samantha Lang
Screenwriter & Director. The Well, The Killing Field, Carlotta
Natalie Saleeba
Actor – House Husbands, Winners & Losers, Neighbours, All Saints
Rosamund Burton
Author and freelance journalist for SMH, Australian Telegraph
Fiona Seres
Scriptwriter, film and television Satisfaction, Tangle, Love My Way, The Surgeon
Krew Boylan
Actor Wild Boys, All Saints, Rescue Special Ops, Shappelle
Rachel Ward
Actor and director/writer of the feature film Beautiful Kate starring Sophie Lowe, Ben Mendelsohn, and Rachel Griffiths.
Denise Scott
Denise is one of Australia’s best loved comedian & actors appearing in TV shows such as Spicks & Specks, The Project and
Karen M. Davis
Author of crime novels ‘Sinister Intent’ & ‘Deadly Obsession’, both published by Simon & Schuster
Elizabeth Farrelly
Author, architecture critic, essayist and columnist for The Sydney Morninng Herald.
Rachael Oakes-Ash
Journalist/author, Good Girls Do Swallow, Anything She Can Do I Can Do Better
Julia Stone
ARIA award wining Australian musician
Vanessa Stubbs
Author of Star Attraction, published by Penguin 2013
Caroline Baum
The Book Show/ABC
Jessica Tovey
Actor – Wolf Creek, Wonderland, Underbelly
Anna Spargo-Ryan
Author, The Paper House published by Pan McMillian
Matt Sherring
Co-writer of the feature film Killer Elite starring Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert De Niro
Jessica Hobbs
Director, The Slap, Rake, Spirited, Tangle, All Saints, Love My Way
Sandra Sully
Journalist, Channel 10 presenter
Rachael Blake
Award winning actress, Wildside, Rake, Lantana, Sleeping Beauty
Dr Elizabeth Farrelly
Feature writer for The Sydney Morning Herald. Author of Blubberland and Caro Was Here
Scott Roberts
Writer and director of the feature film The Hard Word, starring Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths and Joel Edgerton
Josh Capelin
Creative Director, TV Producer including Andy & Ben Do Mexico, Andy & Ben Eat the World, Network 10
Sasha Horler
Award winning Australian actor
Dan Wylie
Actor, Muriel’s Wedding, Romper Stomper, Love My Way, Underbelly
Gyton Grantley
Actor, Underbelly, House Husbands
Doug Mulray
Australian comedian, radio and television presenter
Bianca Dye
Radio announcer, NOVA, 20 to 1, The 7pm Project, Thank God You’re Here
Ashley Hay
Journalist/author, The Body in the Clouds, The Secret: The Strange Marriage of Annabelle Milbanke & Lord Byron
Phillip Hearnshaw
Assistant director, Babe, Babe: Pig in the City, The Punisher, La Spagnola
Simmone Jade Mackinnon
Actor, City Homicide, Cops: LAC, Rescue Special Ops, McLeod’s Daughters
Carla Coulson
Author and photographer, Paris Tango, Italian Joy, Chasing a Dream
Erina Reddan
Journalist, ABC foreign correspondent, author, non-fiction, Baby Daze, fiction, Water from the Moon, Lilia’s Secret
Margaret Sixel
Academy Award Winner Film Editing – Mad Max Fury Road. Also Happy Feet, Babe: Pig in the City
Sandra Nori
Ex-NSW Minister and Member of Macquarie University Council
Clive Hamilton
Australian public intellectual & Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics and the Vice-Chancellor’s Chair
Anna Coren
Reporter/presenter CNN International, Today Tonight
Meryl Tankard
Broadway choreographer, Tarzan the Musical
Tony Barry
Actor, Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo, Australia, All Saints
Caroline Roessler
Former managing editor of The Australian Women’s Weekly, the Hoopla and the Barrossa Living Magazine (Rest in Peace C)
Emma Balfour
Model, poet, author, Poems
Anthony Ackroyd
Professional comedian
Hugh Riminton
CNN correspondent, Ten News presenter, Meet the Press, 6:30 with George Negus
Mandy Newman
Author: How to Say I Do: Make Your Civil Marriage Ceremony Your Own
Penny Robinson
Author, Executive Producer of RPA
Ruth Ostrow
Columnist, author, blogger and feature writer for The Australian
Kay Pavlou
Director, Gangs of Oz, All Saints, Who Do You Think You Are?, McLeod’s Daughters
Rob Pullan
Journalist and author of seven books, including Guilty Secrets, Bob Hawke: A Portrait and Bob Ansett: An Autobiography
Kevin Rozzoli
Former State MP and Speaker, author Gavel to Gavel – An Insider’s View of Parliament
Rebecca Rocheford Davies
Actor, writer, producer
John Mavety
Award-winning director and writer, Behind Mansion Walls, Deadly Women, Earthpulse, Tropfest finalist
Sue MacKinnon
Former FFC Investment Manager, Documentaries and producer Shark Island Productions: Stories of Me, Paul Kelly
Rob Johnson
Editor, journalist and author The Golden Age of the Argonauts and Boom-Boom! A Century of Australian Comedy
Lisa Forrest
Radio and TV broadcaster/author Making the Most of It, DJ Max, Meg Banana, Boycott
Katerina Cosgrove
Author, The Glass Heart
Peter McDonald
Animator, Animal Logic, Happy Feet, Teen Wolf, Puss in Boots
Martyn Ives
Documentary film maker, Emmy Award winner, National Geographic Taboo, How Beer Saved the World, Prototype This!, Monster Bug Wars, If
Mark Gould
Documentary film maker, producer, Tibet: Murder in the Snow, Rising Stars
Helen O'Connor
Actor, Packed to the Rafters, Crownies, All Saints, Babe, Frauds, The Beast
Alec Morgan
Actor, Director, Writer, Hunt Angels, Beautiful Bondi, Our Century, Dusty Hearts,
Nick Lathouris
Actor, dramaturg, writer, Kennedy Miller Productions
Theresa Miller
Television reporter, presenter and producer and author of Making Babies
Roxane Wilson
Actor, Home and Away, City Homicide, Rescue Special Ops, The Alice, Stingers, Water Rats
Dr Ruth Wajnryb
Linguist, author, Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language and columnist for SMH
Matt Duffy
Director, Writer, Producer, Guru Greg
Kimberley Chin Poy
Wednesday Sisters
Ollie Lind
Secret Samurai
Jess Black
Author of 12 books in the Bindi Wildlife Adventure Series, 3 in the RSPCA Animal Tales series and 2 books
Jamie Hilton
Sleeping Beauty and The Waiting City. Voted the Australian producer most worth watching at the Melbourne International Film Festival 37º
Wendy Fitzgerald
Bollywood Dreams
Gerry O' Sullivan
Gangsters of Shanghai
Alex Gilly
Author of Devil’s Harbor published Tor/Forge NY, 2015
Nigel Bartlett
Journalist and author. King of the Road published by Random House, 2015
Helen Thurloe
Varuna Scholarship recipient. ‘Promising Azra’ published by Allen & Unwin, July 2016.
Shannon Garner
Shannon Garner’s first book Labour of Love published by Simon & Schuster, July 2016
Lia Weston
Author of the Fortunes of Ruby White, published by Simon and Schuster and the upcoming – Those Pleasant Girls published by
Ged Gillmore
Author of Bill Murdoch Mystery series – Headland published 2018
Ali Gripper
Award winning journalist, columnist and author of Barefoot Surgeon published by Allen & Unwin, 2018