A multi award-winning playwright, Vanessa writes for theatre, television and radio.

She has completed a Varuna Residency NSW, and a Keesing Studio Residency at the Cite Institute des Arts, Paris.

For television, she has researched and written for acclaimed multi-award winning drama series East West 101 (SBS), Play School (ABCTV) and Rush (Ch10). She wrote AWGIE nominated documentary script 900 Neighbours (ABCTV). She also wrote short films Pop’s Dream and The HoneyEaters and a narrative non-fiction book Legs Up And Laughing.

Her most recently produced play; The One, directed by Darren Yap at the Ensemble Theatre in 2022. Other produced plays include Small Hard Truths, Trailer, Light Begins To Fade, Every Second, The Magic Hour, PORN.CAKE, Checklist For An Armed Robber, The Blessing, and Darling Oscar. She has written several monologues including The Real Thing, Wishbone, Shot Gun and That Night We Lost Jenny.

She adapted A Ghost In My Suitcase for Barking Gecko at Melbourne International Arts Festival, Sydney Festival and Perth International Arts Festival winning an AWGIE for Theatre for Young People. Currently she is working on a libretto for a new chamber opera for Vic Opera.

Vanessa has been produced by the Sydney Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, Barking Gecko, the Ensemble, Belvoir B-Sharp, Griffin, Vitalstatistix, Deckchair, Australian Theatre for Young People, Tantrum, Stooged, Freewheels and has written several plays for ABC Radio. Several works are published including: A Ghost In My Suitcase, Checklist For An Armed Robber, Trailer (Currency Press).

Vanessa has won a NSW Premier’s Literary Award, AWGIE Awards, Inscription Chairman’s Award, Inscription New Work Award. She has been shortlisted for AWGIEs (for writing television, documentary and theatre), the Victorian Premier’s New Play Award, Griffin Award, STC Patrick White Award, Theatre 503 New Play Award, and the Newton-John Award.

Vanessa is one seventh of playwriting company 7ON and half of screenwriting duo Pelican Nation.

Ross Mueller is an established Australian writer.

His comedy, A Simple Act of Kindness premiered to rave reviews at Red Stitch Actors Theatre in 2022. He was the winner of the Georgi Markov Award as part of the BBC International Playwriting Prize.

In 2002 he was the Australian playwright at the International Residency of the Royal Court Theatre in London. In 2007 The Ghost Writer premiered at Melbourne Theatre Company and Construction of The Human Heart was short listed for the AWGIE Award for Best New Play and nominated for five Green Room Awards.

In 2009 Concussion premiered at Sydney Theatre Company and his play Hard Core was shortlisted for the Patrick White Award. He was the winner of the Wal Cherry Play of the year 2007 for his play The Glory and the Winner of the New York New Dramatists Playwright exchange for his play Concussion.

In 2011, ZEBRA! Featuring Bryan Brown, Nadine Garner and Colin Friels premiered with a sell-out season at STC.

In 2015 his A Town Named War Boy was produced by ATYP at the State Library of NSW and he completed his Masters in Writing For Performance at Victorian College of the Arts and he was commissioned by Malthouse Theatre to write; I Can’t Even; a monologue performed by Louise Siversen and Rhys Muldoon.

He has written six plays for Radio National and had two books for children published with Allen and Unwin.

He has been a guest lecturer at Victorian College of the Arts, a mentor for the ATYP National Studio and a freelance columnist.

He is the other half of Pelican Nation