Made a successful proposal for new state funding, delivering the inaugural Made in NSW fund, enabling NSW to remain Australia’s lead state for screen production.

Under my leadership NSW increased its share of the national Drama Production spend from 40% in FY2015 to 55% in FY2016.

High-profile projects attracted to the state included Peter Rabbit, Jackie Chan’s Bleeding Steel, Ridley Scott’s Alien Covenant and Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake: China Girl. 

The 50:50 by 2020 Gender Target mandated female participation in TV Drama & Features, delivering gender parity for female key creatives within two years.

Screenability NSW provided paid attachments for practitioners with disability; expanded to become Createability NSW, with paid attachments across the arts and creative industries, while Screenability continues as an annual Sydney Film Festival sidebar.

Partnered with Australians in Film (AiF) to co-found Charlies, the AiF HQ in Los Angeles, providing workspaces, screenings and partnered industry development programs for Australian screen creatives in Hollywood.

Introduced myriad new partnered programs, including: 

The ABC-Screen NSW Arts Documentary Feature Fund in partnership with Sydney Film Festival.

360 Vision, Australia’s first XR conference, with ABC, Austrade, Event Cinemas, Screen Australia, AFTRS & Carriageworks 

SheDoc with Documentary Australia Foundation and RODE Microphones 

She Shoots, a skills development program placing women in Reality TV camera & audio roles, in partnership with Matchbox, Women NSW, Foxtel, Seven, VA Digital Hire & AFTRS.

Created several high-profile annual awards: 

The Sydney UNESCO City of Film Award, presented at the Sydney Film Festival to a screen practitioner whose work stands for innovation, imagination and impact. Winners include Debbie Lee, Leah Purcell, Warwick Thornton, Lynette Wallworth, Caitlin Yeo and Blackfella Films. 

The Annette Kellerman Award, in partnership with Australians in Film & Vogue Australia, presented in LA to an Australian female ‘doing it her way in Hollywood.’ Winners include Hannah Gadsby, Ruby Rose & Handmaid’s Tale Director Kate Dennis.

Made successful business cases to obtain three new strands of state government funding: Games Development; First Nations; Business Development.

Partnered with Tourism Events Queensland to secure the AACTAs for the Gold Coast for three years.

Secured state funding to partner with Screen Producers Australia to host Screen Forever on the Gold Coast for three years.

Oversaw management of state screen infrastructure across multiple studio sites.

Attracted large-scale local & international production including Mortal Kombat II, Apples Never Fall, La Brea S3, How to Make Gravy and Spit. 

Led the transformation of South Australia into an international production destination by securing Warner Bros’ Mortal Kombat, delivering $70m in state spend & adding a new flank of the country to Australia’s international production attraction offering.

Attracted a further $30m+ production expenditure with highly successful series such as Stateless, Upright, Aftertaste, Wanted, First Day & The Hunting. 

Introduced a period of unprecedented investment in SA, from 3% of the national drama spend in FY2017 to 10% in FY2018; with a further rise to 15% of the national spend in FY2019. 

Expanded the SAFC remit to include games development and podcasting. 

Oversaw management of state screen infrastructure – studios as well as a full precinct with 50+ screen business and games developer tenants.

Created of the Adelaide Studios Artist Residency, in partnership with the Samstag Museum, the Adelaide Film Festival and philanthropic sources. 

Introduced the Doing It Differently initiative re-think conventional, non-family-friendly production methodologies in response to research by Women in Film & Television (WIFT) Australia and RMIT. 

Conceived and co-developed Centralised, an indigenous skills & content development initiative in South Australia & the NT, in partnership with Screen NT, Screen Australia, the ABC, SBS and AFTRS. 

Delivered gender parity for female key creatives in SA across TV drama, factual and feature films in the 2018-19 year. 

Led the ABC TV genre heads to develop a three-year network Content Strategy and managed the development, financing, commissioning and production of all Australian programs & content on ABC1, ABC2, ABC iView and ABC Online. 

Collaboratively developed & communicated the creative vision for the broadcaster to all teams and stakeholders.

Highlights include conceiving & facilitating the drama series Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo, securing the TV adaptation of The Slap; driving the development & production of Q&A; and developing & implementing the ABC Sports strategy with a focus on indigenous, Women’s and Paralympic sport, including the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games. 

Developed & delivered some of the most successful shows in the network’s history, including Spicks & Specks, Chris Lilley’s We Can Be Heroes and Summer Heights High, The Chaser’s War on Everything, At the Movies with Margaret and David, The New Inventors, The Einstein Factor, Strictly Dancing, The Book Club with Jennifer Byrne and Triple J TV, along with the annual specials My Favourite Book, My Favourite Film and My Favourite Album. 

Led the development, financing & commissioning of 100+ hours of live music, comedy and theatre event programming in partnerships with Australia’s leading performing arts organisations and venues. 

Member of Nine’s Programming Executive and Executive in Charge of Production on Married at First Sight, Australia’s Got Talent & The Great Australian Bake Off.

Initiated the development of No Activity for Stan, the first original series to be developed & commissioned by an Australian streamer. 

Worked with the founders as they reframed the company profile to expand its output from Comedy to Drama.

With UNSW I co-created The Cli-fi Partnership, engaging ABC TV, AFTRS and Screen Australia to bring the world’s leading climate scientists together with Australia’s leading screenwriters to develop climate fiction series. 

Home of Big Brother, Deal or No Deal, Offspring, Puberty Blues, Hi 5. Led the development & production of the non-scripted slate.

Commissioned long-form prime-time documentaries, factual & factual entertainment.