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.

  • Ben Law is an Australian writer and broadcaster.

    He’s the author of The Family Law (2010), Gaysia (2013), the Quarterly Essay Moral Panic 101 (2017) and editor of Growing Up Queer in Australia (2019).

    Benjamin is also an AWGIE Award-winning screenwriter. He’s the co-executive producer, co-creator and co-writer of the Netflix comedy-drama Wellmania (2023), playwright of Melbourne Theatre Company’s sold-out play Torch the Place (2020), and creator and co-writer of three seasons of the award-winning SBS/Hulu/Comedy Central Asia TV series The Family Law (2016–2019). He has a PhD in creative writing and cultural studies from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT).

    Every week, Benjamin interviews public figures for Good Weekend. He hosted ABC TV’s two-part feature documentary on Chinese-Australian history Waltzing the Dragon (2019) and co-hosted ABC Radio’s Stop Everything with Beverley Wang from 2018–2023. He has appeared on TV shows like Australian Survivor (Ten), Filthy Rich and Homeless (SBS), Q&A (ABC), The Drum (ABC) and The Project (Ten). He has also written for over 50 publications in Australia and beyond—including the Monthly, frankie, Guardian, Monocle and Australian Financial Review—and is a literary scout for Hachette Australia.

    Benjamin works and lives on Gadigal Country, part of the Eora Nation (Sydney). He is a board member of Story Factory, committee member of the Jesse Cox Audio Fellowship and ambassador for Plan Australia, the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation, Victorian Pride Centre, Bridge for Asylum Seekers and the Pinnacle Foundation.

  • Mithila Gupta is an Indian-born, Aussie-bred creator, writer and executive producer. She recently created and was lead writer of the hit SBS romantic drama FOUR YEARS LATER. Made with Easy Tiger productions, FOUR YEARS LATER stars Shahana Goswami and Akshay Ajit Singh, and was filmed across both India and Australia. The series was nominated in 2025 for an AACTA and Screen Producers Australia award for Best Miniseries. It won Bronze at The New York film and television awards and has been acquired by CBC internationally.

    Mithila also created and wrote all nine episodes of comedy series DESI DOWN UNDER for Audible India. The series stars Adarsh Gaurav and Prajakta Koli. She previously wrote on two seasons of BUMP(Stan, The CW and BBC) and four seasons of FIVE BEDROOMS(Paramount+/Peacock/BBC). As the head writer on THE UNLISTED (ABC/Netflix), which garnered the International Youth Prize in 2020, Mithila wrote several episodes including the pilot. In additional credits, she has also written on international hit DOCTOR DOCTOR (Nine/AcornTV); THE HEIGHTS (ABC/BBC); PLAYING FOR KEEPS (Ten); WINNERS AND LOSERS, HOME AND AWAY, TOYBOX (Seven); and TRIP FOR BISCUITS (ABC). Finally, Mithila worked as the assistant script editor on gripping sci-fi CLEVERMAN (ABC/AMC).

    Starting her career in the story room of Australia’s longest running drama, NEIGHBOURS (Ten/Channel 5) – where she introduced an Indian family to the previously all white cast – Mithila passionately aspires to diversify the Australian television industry, both in front of and behind the camera. She mentors several emerging writers and is a founding member of the Australian Writer’s Guild’s first ever Diversity and Inclusion committee. Recently, she joined the board of inclusive production company Co-Curious.

    Mithila is currently developing a slate of projects, including a romcom feature film adaptation of DESI DOWN UNDER, juicy crime thriller THUGS with Easy Tiger, and the screen adaptation of Shankari Chandran’s award winning novel CHAI TIME AT CINNAMON GARDENS, on which she is attached to write and executive produce. She is also writing on a romcom series with Hello Sunshine and Goalpost Pictures

  • Gary Williams has more than 42 years experience in tax, accounting and auditing in Australia. He has been a Partner at accounting and assurance firm Rosenfeld Kant for over 30 years with a niche specialisation in Australian film, television and media. Gary is a Chartered Accountant and Registered Company Auditor and has been a board member of numerous arts companies over the last 30 years.

  • Pearl Tan is a multi-hyphenate creator in the audio and screen industry. She is the Discipline Lead in Directing at AFTRS. Pearl is completing her PhD in Creative Practice at UNSW, researching the experience of diverse creatives in the screen industry. As part of her PhD, she released a fictional podcast entitled Diversity Work which has won multiple awards at the Webby Awards, New York Festivals Radio Awards, Signal Awards and more.

  • Kelrick is a Ngarluma man from Broome WA, and is passionate about advancing First Nations screen stories and creatives. In 2002 he completed his Masters in Documentary Writing and Directing at AFTRS, and in 2007 returned to WA to become NITV’s Commissioning Editor. He formed Spear Point Productions in 2010 – credits include the multiple AACTA Award nominated Prison Songs. Kelrick was also the Indigenous Manager for Screenwest before joining the ABC as Head of Indigenous in 2016. His commissions at ABC include Black Comedy, The Dark Emu Story, and popular award-winning drama Total Control.ion text goes here

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