Jennifer Scoullar is a bestselling author of Australian rural fiction, who lives with her family on a small property in West Gippsland. Her house is on a hilltop, overlooking valleys of messmate and mountain ash. She grew up on the books of Elyne Mitchell, and all her life she’s ridden and bred horses, in particular Australian stock horses. Scoullar writes page-turning stories set in and around Australia’s magnificent wild places. She has eleven published novels, including the bestselling Brumby’s Run and the historical adventure series The Tasmanian Tales.
Maryanne is an Australian actor, voiceover and teaching artist of Anglo-Indian and Nepalese heritage. A 2017 NIDA graduate, Maryanne holds a BFA in Acting and a Masters in Speech-Language Pathology (University of Canberra). She toured Australia nationally in Bell Shakespeare’s production of Julius Caesar as Portia. During her time at NIDA her credits include Helena in A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Fool in Woyzeck, Eurydike in Eurydike and Orpheus and Mullet in Realism. As a teaching artist, Maryanne delivers a wide range of courses for NIDA Open and Bell Shakespeare.