ALUMNI

  • Danielle Stamoulos

  • Angeline Armstrong

  • James Elazzi

  • Aran Thangaratnam

  • David Koutsouridis

  • Vee Shi

  • Lauren Anderson

  • Randa Sayed

  • Diane Vu

  • Tasnim Hossain

  • Beth Knights

  • Vonne Patiag

  • Monikka Eliah

  • Miranda Aguilar

  • Natalia Stawyskyj

  • Andrew Undi Lee

  • Nisrine Amine

  • Nick Atkins

  • Matias Bolla

  • Mariella Solano

  • Arka Das

  • Marcus Khoudair

  • Meegan May

  • Baro Lee

  • Bina Bhattacharya

  • Claire Cao

  • Dee Dogan

  • Didi de Graaf

  • Gabriel Fa'atau'uu-Satiu

  • Tien Tran

TEAM

  • CEO

    In her role as CEO at Co-Curious, Annabel has been instrumental in developing and implementing programs to support capacity building and skills development for the screen sector focusing on diversity, equity and inclusion. This includes the Behind Closed Doors program which resulted in feature film anthology, Here Out West, which she produced with Sheila Jayadev from Emerald Productions and Bree-Anne Sykes. Here Out West opened Sydney Film Festival in 2021, was a CineFestOz Film Prize Finalist and won the 2022 SDIN Award.

    Annabel has extensive screen industry experience and a successful history in creating proposals for key arts and film funding bodies. From 2017-18, she was the Partnerships Manager with CuriousWorks and prior to CuriousWorks, Annabel spent seven years with the Australian Writers’ Guild, where she played a key part in developing their Pathways Program. She also helped lead the establishment of Scripted Ink, which provides world first development opportunities to Australian writers. Annabel has also worked as a Script Department Manager across a number of Australian and international drama productions.

  • Story Producer

    Clare Atkins is a writer, script editor, script producer and development executive with over twenty years of experience in the Australian television industry. As Development Executive for the ABC she supported the story and script development of dramas and comedies including Stateless, Fires, Significant Others, Operation Buffalo, The Heights, Les Norton, Diary of an Uber Driver, Content and Here Out West. She also worked as a consultant on ABC’s award-winning podcasts The Eleventh and Snowball. As a freelance writer she is currently working on several shows in development, and previously wrote for All Saints, Wonderland, Winners & Losers and Home & Away.

    Clare is the author of Nona & Me, a young adult fiction novel written whilst living in Arnhem Land, which was shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards 2015. Her second novel, Between Us, won the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for Older Readers 2019 and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s, NSW Premier’s and Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Her first picture book, Egg, was released in August 2022.

    She is passionate about authentic diverse storytelling, having worked as the new writer mentor for Matchbox’s The Heights, script producer for ABC International in Papua New Guinea, script producer for community scriptwriting project Represent and mentor for multiple community-based media groups. She was part of the committee which developed the ABC’s Diversity and Inclusion Commissioning Guidelines released in 2021. In 2022 she joined Co-Curious as a Story Producer to develop new screen content with diverse and underrepresented creatives.

  • Creative Producer

    Kali Reid is a creative producer at Co-Curious, working with writers to develop new screen projects. She recently produced 8 Nights Out West, a short documentary series for ABC Television. She was associate producer on the hit Netflix thriller Clickbait, managing the script team from early development through production. In 2019 Kali executive produced the Screenability Film Makers Fund for Create NSW, premiering at Sydney Film Festival. From 2017-2018 Kali was the scripted development coordinator at Matchbox Pictures where she developed award-winning projects including Stateless, The Heights, Glitch and Secret City. Prior to television, Kali produced live work for Sydney Festival, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Art & About, Underbelly Arts Festival and Carriageworks among others.

Board

  • Amy Noble is Fremantle Australia’s Director of Business Affairs and Legal. Amy has a Masters of Law from the Queensland University of Technology and began her legal career in 2004 at Phillips Fox, now DLA Piper practising in Intellectual Property and Litigation.  Amy went on to work as a contracts executive for Thomson Reuters in London and as a Senior Solicitor at Clayton Utz as a member of the Technology and Intellectual Property Team.  

    Amy shifted her focus to the television and film industry and in 2010 began work in-house as a lawyer for Screen Australia. During this time responsible for managing the legal and commercial aspects of Screen Australia’s investment in feature films, television, documentary and multi-platform projects. Projects included The Sapphires, Strangerland, Last Cab to Darwin, Predestination, The Rover, The Dressmaker; Top of the Lake,  Rake and Jack Irish.

    Since 2014, Amy has been a senior member of the business affairs and legal team at Fremantle Australia one of Australia’s largest independent producers of television programs including Wentworth, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Neighbours, Australia’s Got Talent, Farmer Wants a Wife and Grand Designs Australia. In 2017, Amy joined the Fremantle Australia leadership team and is company secretary for the Fremantle Australia Group of Companies (including Easy Tiger Productions). 

    Amy is Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

  • Easha has more than 22 years experience in accounting and auditing in Australia, The Cook Islands, New Zealand, Botswana & Sri Lanka. Over this time she has worked in senior finance positions for some of the largest and well respected companies in the world – AON, Lloyds International, Westpac, Ernst and Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Easha brings a wealth of experience and knowledge in governance and financial management to CuriousWorks.

  • Ameer Ali is a senior executive, Chartered Accountant, and certified translator with over 18 years’ experience. Ameer started his career at the Australian National University followed by ten years of management consulting in the private and government sectors. He is a Strategy Manager at the ABC, leading large and cross-divisional projects across the organisation. Ameer is passionate about creating opportunities for people from all backgrounds and he brings a wealth of experience and knowledge in corporate strategy and planning.

  • Julie Kalceff is an award-winning writer, director, and producer. She specialises in telling character-driven, female-centric stories that appeal to a wide audience. Julie is passionate about authentic representation and inclusion, both on screen and behind the camera. She is best known as the creator, writer, director, and producer of the international hit online drama series Starting From Now and writer, director and co-producer of children’s television series First Day.

  • Ashley Gray is a Partner at growth strategy consulting firm, GNG Partners, and has strong experience in strategy, brand, marketing, sales and digital. This experience has been gained in executive and consulting roles in both public and private companies.

    Ashley grew up in New Zealand and has lived and worked in New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, US and Europe. Ashley began his career as a transportation engineer in NZ, advising clients on major infrastructure projects. He then joined L.E.K. Consulting in Australia where he built his strategy skills.

    After a number of years working with clients around the world, Ash returned to Australia and joined the Westpac Group. Over a ten-year period, Ash held several customer-oriented leadership roles including Head of Brand & Marketing, Head of Youth & Millennial Acquisition and Head of Digital Sales Transformation.

    Ash has also had the honour to run the St.George Foundation and Bank of Melbourne Foundation, both which focus on helping disadvantaged children.

  • Elizabeth Grady is the Head of Philanthropy and Partnerships at Australia for UNHCR, an international aid agency that raises funds to support the humanitarian operations of the United Nations Refugee Agency, and leads all of aspects of philanthropy within the organisation. Prior to joining Australia for UNHCR, Elizabeth was the Development and Donor Relations Officer for Mercy Works, a development organisation with projects in Papua New Guinea, Australia and Timor-Leste. Prior to working in international development Elizabeth worked in the film and television industry for Columbia Tri Star Pictures and Working Title Films.

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