Our Team of Consultants

Our expert script consultants provide a full range of script services at reasonable rates.

Anne Brooksbank has written many episodes of major series Blue Heelers and Water Rats, and several feature films. She has won six AWGIES including Best Telefeature, 2000, for Marriage Acts. Her episode of Halifax fp was nominated for Best Script, 2001. She has been an assessor for the AFC and has lectured on screenwriting at Sydney University and UTS. She is now working with an LA director on three feature scripts, one an adaptation of her book, Mother's Day.

David Caesar is one of Australia's best known writer-directors of feature films Dirty Deeds, Prime Mover, Mullet, Idiot Box, and documentaries Fences and Body Work. He has directed All Saints, Wildside, Water Rats, Halifax F.P., Bad Cop Bad Cop, and Crashburn. Since being a participant in the FTO's Aurora 2004 Workshop, he has directed the mini-series RAN, and co-written/directed the mini-series Dangerous as well as writing his own scripts.

Andy Cox has worked as a screenwriter and script editor in feature film and theatre for 20 years in the UK, Europe, US and Australia. He is the writer of the Australian features Lucky Country (director Kriv Stenders, released in June 2009) and Under A Red Moon, and currently works as a consultant for Film Victoria, the South Australian Film Corporation, Screen Australia, the NSW FTO and Screen Tasmania, assessing / editing scripts and running writers workshops. He is currently adapting ‘The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney’ with director Bruce Beresford.

Raymond Devitt is a writer, script consultant and script editor. Steeped in popular culture, Ray works in genre-based scripts and genre hybrids. He has taught Screenwriting at Macquarie University, UTS, and Metro Screen. He was script editor on the feature film Dirty Deeds and script consultant on features Animal Kingdom, Wolf Creek and Crocodile Dreaming. His script Highway Toll won a place in the prestigious Aurora 2003 Workshop and is currently in financing.

Anthony Egan is a screenwriter, script consultant and script editor who has worked in comedy, genre hybrids, horror, sci-fi, thriller and action. He was script editor of Masterpiece, a finalist in the 2005 Nichol Screenwriting Competition. Anthony has worked as a writer or script analyst with Fox-Icon /Fox-Searchlight, Beyond, Voyager Films, Vitascope, Cine-2000 (Korea), China Entertainment (HK) and many others. In 2007 he produced the sci-fi comedy Mortal Fools.

Claire Haywood is a writer/producer whose television credits include McLeod's Daughters, Housecalls, Auction Squad and Bert Newton's 10 to 1. She has had several plays produced and has written commissioned feature films in Australia and New Zealand. Her documentary credits include: Taxi School, All Days Are Nights and A Frontier Conversation. Claire has been a script assessor and script editor for twenty years. She's assessed for Fox Australia and Arena Television and been a script assessor and consultant for the NSW FTO and the NZFC.

John Lonie is head of Screenwriting at AFTRS, Queensland. His TV writing credits include True Believers, The Paper Man, GP, Police Rescue. John co-wrote Kokoda, which screened Australia-wide in 2006. His script The Savage Garden is in development. Script editing credits include Ivan Sen's Beneath Clouds, Alison Tilson's Japanese Story, Axefall by Lynne Vincent McCarthy, (selected for 2002 Aurora Workshop), and Cannes Prix d'Or winner Laurie McInnes' Dogwatch.

Melissa Lucashenko is a highly regarded script editor and script consultant who has assessed over two hundred scripts for the NSW Film and Television Office, the AFC and Screen Tasmania. She has assessed many features (including Jindabyne), and also TV series (Lockie Leonard) and documentaries (The First Australians; The Colony). A much-awarded Indigenous writer and former judge of the David Unaipon Award, Melissa’s novels have been critically acclaimed both in Australia and abroad. See www.melissalucashenko.com.

John O'Grady is a comedy specialist who has worked as writer, script editor, developer and producer. He was Executive Producer of ABC TV Comedy from 1979 to 1997. His many credits include Mother & Son, for which he was script editor and Executive Producer. His programs have sold to more than 30 countries. John has won 4 AWGIE Awards for Best Comedy script, and the AWG's 2006 Fred Parsons Award for Comedy.

Deborah Parsons is one of Australia's top TV drama writers, and has written for Phoenix, Police Rescue, Good Guys Bad Guys, Blue Heelers, Water Rats, McLeod's Daughters, Young Lions, Marshall Law, White Collar Blue, MDA and others. Deb has written four feature films, lectured in Screenwriting at RMIT and been a leading script editor and consultant for many years for the FFC, FTO, AFC, and Film Vic.

Nick Parsons wrote and directed the feature film Dead Heart, two short films and Saviour, a half-hour episode of the 2006 series Two Twisted, and several plays. Nick has script edited or consulted on the feature films Clubland, Candy, Caterpillar Wish, Newcastle, Cedar Boys and The King. He is currently writing a commissioned screenplay, Homecoming, and the upcoming children's series My Place, for ABC Television.

Ian Pringle was a producer on cutting-edge independent films Romper Stomper, Lover Boy, Celia, The Tale Of Ruby Rose and the writer/director of The Plains of Heaven, Wrong World, and Prisoner of St Petersburg. As a script consultant for international production companies and Australian funding bodies Ian helped develop many scripts. He now has two optioned feature screenplays in development and lectures in scriptwriting at RMIT in Melbourne.

Scott Roberts has written successfully for film and TV in London, LA and Australia for over twenty years. His first feature as writer/director was The Hard Word with Guy Pearce & Rachel Griffiths (2002). Scott has taught screenwriting and is a popular script doctor, script editor and script assessor. As script consultant he has helped several projects through to completion including Prey, Son of a Lion, and The Independent, which he made a significant contribution to through Script Central.

Billy Marshall Stoneking was series writer for Paramount TV's Mission: Impossible, creator/ writer of acclaimed ABC TV series Stringer, and writer of several plays including the often performed Sixteen Words For Water. He has written/produced several documentary films about the years he spent living with tribal Aboriginal people. His script editing credits include Chopper and Aboriginal filmmaker Darlene Johnson's Crocodile Dreaming. Billy is a lecturer in Screenwriting at the Sydney International Film School and runs numerous scriptwriting and drama workshops. See www.wheresthedrama.com.

Chryssy Tintner is a screenwriter, development executive, script editor and script assessor. Following her Master of Film Arts (Motion Picture) at USC, Chryssy worked in LA, Europe and Australia, with the William Morris Agency, Thompson Street Pictures at 20th Century Fox, Rosebank Films, Octagon/World 2000 at Ardmore Studios in Ireland, and freelance work with over 200 production companies. Chryssy is now writing two screenplays on commission and has done many script assessments for Screen Australia, state film funding bodies and the Australian Writers Guild.

Greg Woodland, Director of Script Central, has been a script editor and script consultant for all Australian film funding bodies, NZFC and the AWG over the last 14 years. He received a NSW Film & TV Office Script Editor Fellowship in 2002 and is a writer/director whose short films and documentaries screened internationally in festivals & on television. His feature script The Visitor (now The Whistler) won the 2007 Inscription Open Script award and came first or second in other national (and one US) script competitions. It has won a 2004 Varuna Writers Fellowship and been through the AFC’s 2005 Spark Script Program. His script Pangs won a 2005 AFC Writing Fellowship and was a finalist in the 2009 InSite Screenplay Competition. Both scripts are now in financing.

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