Steve Vizard

Steve Vizard is a prizewinning writer, broadcaster, lawyer and research professor at Monash University and the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, University of Adelaide. He has written and edited books on topics ranging from Australia’s Constitutional Convention to Australia’s population challenge to children’s books. Through his production company Artists Services which he co-founded with Andrew Knight, he helped create and produce groundbreaking television shows, including Fast Forward, Full Frontal, Big Girls Blouse, The Micallef P(r)ogram(me) and SeaChange, and hosted his own Gold Logie-awarded TV show Tonight Live. He has also written for theatre, including the operas Banquet of Secrets and The Space Between, and the musical Vigil. He has contributed to public debate as President of Screen Producers Association, National Gallery of Victoria, Major Events Corporation and The Vizard Foundation.