Penelope Chai is an award-winning screenwriter.

Penelope wrote on TURN UP THE VOLUME (ABC Me/Matchbox Pictures), EDEN (Stan) and TROPPO (ABC).

Her other credits include OTHER PEOPLE’S PROBLEMS (ABC), a series co-written with Jane Dickenson, which premiered at Series Mania and screened at Berlinale, and LOVE AND FURY (ABC), a documentary co-written with John Hughes, which earned an Australian Writers’ Guild (AWGIE) Award nomination for Best Documentary Screenplay.

Her short film SHE WAS SHE (2014) was shown at Melbourne International Film Festival and received an AWGIE Award nomination for Best Short Film.

CINDERELLA MUST DIE, an action-adventure feature co-written with Matteo R. Bernardini, won the Australians in Film Gateway LA Screenwriting Fellowship (2017) and the Script Pipeline Grand Prize (2016).

MARY, MARY, a dystopian sci-fi co-written with Adam Spellicy, won the Monte Miller Award for Best Unproduced Screenplay (2016) and the John Hinde Award for Excellence in Science Fiction Writing for Best Unproduced Screenplay (2015).

Penelope is a recipient of a City of Yarra Arts Residency for The Punt Road Project (2014) and a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship (2013), and was part of Film Victoria’s Catapult Lab (2012).

Penelope has several other film and television projects in development.

For a full CV please contact info@rgm.com.au.