Tracy Richardson

Tracy is originally from the UK and is based near Byron Bay. She spends her time avoiding conspiracy theorists and writing dark comedy. The darker the better. As a senior copywriter and Creative Director, Tracy worked in large ad agency creative departments in the UK and Australia dominated by Mad Men. She has the stories to prove it. When a client dared her to write a play about a dull product, she turned an Ikea instruction manual into a human offering linguistically challenging advice to a father to be. True love has to conquer many things, but none as terrifying as a flat pack cot. Tracy's award winning comedy plays have been performed at the global Short+Sweet Festival in Sydney. Her animated short screenplay was optioned by Kristina Ceyton, Producer of The Babadook (2014) which premiered at the Sundance Film festival. After being shortlisted for the INSITE Unproduced Screenplay competition for a comedy feature screenplay, Tracy was invited onto the AWG Pathways Program. The AWG and WIFT Gender Matters mentoring programs offered Tracy the opportunity to work with AWGIE award-winning scriptwriter and new media Producer Catherine Fargher on an animated screenplay. An international mentorship offered by the Australian International Screen Forum in conjunction with Screenworks gave Tracy the unique opportunity to work with New York based filmmakers to learn more about creating a compelling story and the business of filmmaking from the US perspective. She was also the winner of the Discovering New Voices: Romantic Comedy feature screenplay competition run by Hoodlum Entertainment in conjunction with Screenworks.