Today’s episode features Elise McCredie, an award-winning showrunner and screenwriter, whose most recent series is The Airport Chaplain, starring Hugo Weaving, Shabana Azeez and Claudia Karvan. Co-created and executive produced by Elise and Jude Troy, it’s produced by Wooden Horse and all 8 episodes are available to watch on SBS now.

Throughout the podcast Elise talks about writing for film versus writing for television, her approach to putting together and running a writers’ room, how seeing The Kettering Incident be created by a female Australian showrunner made it feel possible to become one herself, if being a good writer makes for a good showrunner, and much more.

Elise’s credits include as a showrunner the first locally commissioned Australian Disney+ series The Clearing and showrunner of Stateless with EPs and co-creators Tony Ayres and Cate Blanchett, which won a record 13 AACTA awards in 2020. She also wrote, created and produced Sunshine for SBS, co-wrote the feature film Ride Like a Girl with Andrew Knight – which was the top grossing Australian film of 2019 – with other writing credits including Nowhere Boys, Jack Irish and Secret City. She also wrote and directed her debut feature film Strange Fits of Passion which was selected to screen at Cannes Film Festival.

This episode is brought to you by the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS). To explore the Master of Arts Screen: Business and submit an application for the upcoming intake, visit: https://www.aftrs.edu.au/award-course/master-of-arts-screen-business/