About

Ally Burnham is an AWGIE winning screenwriter and novelist. A NIDA graduate (2016, Masters, Writing for Performance), she is also the Creative Producer at Westwords - Western Sydney's literary development organisation. 

Ally is best known for her feature film Unsound (2020), which was nominated for best original feature at the 2020 AWGIE Awards. A romantic-drama, the film won best Australian feature at the 2020 Melbourne Queer Film Festival, best fiction feature film at the 2020 ATOM Awards, and was nominated for best indie feature at the 2020 AACTA Awards.

Ally is the lead writer of  Metropius, the multi-media franchise produced by 18 Degrees, where her work spans board games, comic books and AR experiences. Her screenplay for the animation won Most Outstanding Animation at the 2022 AWGIE Awards.