The The NSW Writers' Centre

Mentors – Film and Television

Nick Bleszynski has spent 30 years writing/directing award-winning documentary films for the world’s biggest broadcasters. He has written the bestselling Shoot Straight You Bastards, You’ll Never Take Me Alive (shortlisted for the 2006 Ned Kelly True Crime Prize), Bloodlust and is about to publish The Pricker. With a wealth of teaching and mentoring experience (London University, Aberdeen Arts Centre, Sturt University, NSW TAFE, NSW Writers’ Centre and Sutherland & Bankstown Community Colleges), Nick is ideally placed to help aspiring authors realize their true potential. He is comfortable helping writers with modern fiction, non-fiction, speculative fiction and scriptwriting/project proposals, but specialises in books with a historical background, which is the basis of his own projects. www.blackrosemedia.com.au

Nick is available to work in person as well as via phone, email or Skype.

Timothy Daly is a playwright and teacher with numerous national and international productions of his plays. These include Livingstone, Complicity and The Private Visions of Gottfried Kellner, which won the 2000 Australian Writers’ Guild AWGIE for Best Australian Play. His play Kafka Dances was the play that brought Cate Blanchett to national attention, and is one of the most internationally produced Australian plays of the last two decades. It has won many national and international awards. Beach: A Theatrical Fantasia, performed at NIDA, is the largest-cast Australian play ever produced. His latest play, Derrida In Love, had its world premiere at the Ensemble Theatre in March 2007. Timothy has written extensively for radio, his radio work having been broadcast in seven countries.