Monday, 17 August 2015
6.30pm — 8.30pm
The Dolphin Hotel, Surry Hills
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Guest Speaker: Ian Simmons
Ian has been writing comedy for over thirty years. He’s been a head writer and script producer for Andrew Denton, “Good News Week”, “The Glass House”, “The Sideshow”, and “Wednesday Night Fever”.
Ian has worked for all five free-to-air TV networks as well as the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He has written for Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Deborah Mailman, and Geoffrey Rush at the AACTA Awards.
He has won eleven AWGIE Awards from the Australian Writers’ Guild, one ARIA, and one AFI. In 2012 he received the Fred Parsons Award for Outstanding Contribution to Australian Comedy.
Ian recently finished co-writing his first feature film.
