Jack Maggs

Peter Carey is the multi-award-winning author of eight novels, plus two highly acclaimed collections of short stories and a memoir. His books have won or been shortlisted for every major literary award in Australia. He has won the Booker Prize twice – in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang and in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda. In 1998 he won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Jack Maggs, and again in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang. In 2007 he won the NSW Premier's Award and the Victorian Premier's Award for Theft: A Love Story. Born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Peter Carey now lives in New York.

Stephen Shanahan graduated from WAAPA in 1992. Since then he has built a career in voiceover, acting, music, film editing, audio recording and design, and is now passing on his vast skills through teaching. With credits ranging from telcos to TV promos, Steve has also carved a niche for himself in the world of animation, having voiced many characters in Australian cartoons such as Tracy McBean, CJ the DJ and the role of B1 in the animated series of Bananas In Pyjamas.