Danielle Stamoulos

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Awards/Nominations: 2020/2019 - SYDNEY SLEUTHERS (web series) - Official Selection Die Seriale (Germany) - Official Selection Women’s Comedy Film Festival Atlanta - Official Selection Miami Web Fest 2020 - Santa Monica Web Fest Finalist 2020 - WINNER Best Cast Ensemble / Best Web Series / Best Director / Best Editing ONIROS Film Awards (Italy) - WINNER Best Ensemble Cast Comedy 2019 ASIA WEB AWARDS - WINNER Made in the West Film Festival - NYC WEB FEST 2019 Official Selection - 2018 Filmaka Competition Pilot Winner (LA) 2016 Sydney Theatre Award Nomination for 'Best Ensemble Cast' For SLUT by Patricia Cornelius, WITS Festival Fatale Voted 1 of top 11 Shows of 2016 Sydney Back by popular demand at the Old Fitz with Redline Productions, June 2017 ★★★★★ Time Out Sydney ★★★★½ Arts Hub ★★★★ Daily Review Training/Education: 2013 - ACA (Actors Centre Australia) Graduate with an Advanced Diploma of Performing Arts (Acting) 2021 - AFTRS Masters of Screen: Screenwriting Danielle is an Actor and Writer of Greek European ethnicity working across Film/TV and Theatre in Australia. Danielle is passionate about shining a light on female-identifying voices that are unheard from and unseen from Greek diaspora generations. Her creative work explores themes of taboo, sexuality, bodily autonomy, inherited integenerational patterns and antiheroines. Danielle has a love for writing genre-bending cringe comedies and suspenseful dramas combined with a sense of the real and the mythical. As an actor, Danielle recently wrote and acted in her short film titled GORGO (in current festival 2023 distribution by AFTRS) set in 1960s Australia about a promised bride who travels from Greece to Australia, inspired by her grandmother, Greek heritage and the myth of Medusa. She also stars as teenage misfit Witney in Sighence Projects' award winning murder comedy web series SYDNEY SLEUTHERS. (WINNER BEST ENSEMBLE CAST COMEDY 2019 ASIA WEB AWARDS/ATLANTA WOMEN'S COMEDY FILM FEST FINALIST/MIAMI WEB FEST FINALIST/ONIROS FILM AWARDS FINALIST/SANTA-MONICA 2019 WEB FEST/DIE SIERALE 2020 (Germany) OFFICIAL SELECTION MADE IN THE WEST FILM FESTIVAL FINALIST & WINNER/2019 NYC WEB FEST OFFICIAL SELECTION/FILMAKA COMPETITION WINNER (LA). Recently in 2023, Danielle was selected for Co Curious' 'In The Room' Feature Film Commission with POWERHOUSE PARRAMATTA as 1 of 5 writers. This innovative collaboration will provide a platform for writers and film makers from under-represented backgrounds across Western Sydney. The resulting major commission will premiere at Powerhouse Parramatta in 2025. Danielle is also currently working on the SBS queer revisionist dramedy 'While The Men Are Away,' as Script Coordinator for Creator/Showrunner Kim Wilson, produced by ARCADIA productions and directed by Elissa Down. Her original series concept for a supernatural comedy-drama 'Curse of the Virgin' was selected for early development support through the ‘Digital Diasporas' program run by ACE (Arts & Cultural Exchange Parramatta), supported by Screen Australia in 2020. Danielle worked with acclaimed web-series writer, actor and director Maria Theodorakis (Little Acorns) and co-produced a seven minute proof of concept which she was both actor and writer. 'Curse of the Virgin' is currently in development as a 6 x 7 minute web-series. Other acting credits include Love Child (Channel 9), short documentary film Shading (Diversity Arts Australia), To Be Honest (Bankstown Arts Centre), EI8HT at 2015 Sydney Fringe Festival and The Canterbury Tales (The New Theatre). Danielle also received a 'Best Ensemble Cast’ 2016 Sydney Theatre Award nomination at WITS Festival Fatale, five-star media reviews and several Broadway World Australia nominations for Patricia Cornelius’ play SLUT, co-produced with her theatre company Edgeware Forum. In 2017 SLUT was back by popular demand in co-production with Redline Productions - rated 5 stars by Time Out Sydney & 4.5 stars Arts Hub as well as nominated for several Broadway World Australia Awards. For her writing, Danielle was recently selected for Co Curious’ ‘On the Bright Side’ initiative (2022) supported by the Netflix Creative Equity Fund for underrepresented filmmakers where she got to develop her own original concept for a half hour comedy series. She also completed a 2022 Development placement with Lingo Pictures. Danielle was also selected for Scripted Ink’s 2022 Writers’ Internship placement with STUDIOCANAL during the 2022 Cannes film festival. Danielle was one of the co-writers for comedy web series Halal Gurls (ABCiview), Script Coordinator on The Letdown (S1) (Netflix/ABC) and was the Producer’s Attachment (Development) with Co-Curious & Emerald Productions on feature film HERE OUT WEST. Danielle has vast note taking experience working for Lingo Pictures, Made Up Stories, Co Curious, ACE and Magpie Pictures. MEDIA LINKS: 2023 CO CURIOUS + POWERHOUSE PARRAMATTA Feature Film Commission (Writer) - https://www.maas.museum/in-the-room/?fbclid=IwAR2rssM5YUFl2z7SjkCYH5O4vZBm7h5FffYcGTXyz7doplolXNz8GXNWqeo Actor/Writer spotlight article in THE GREEK HERALD - https://greekherald.com.au/culture/write-what-you-know-danielle-stamoulos-greek-heritage-inspires-her-creative-works/ Actor in BEST COMEDY/ENSEMBLE in INTERNATIONAL AWARD-WINNING WEB SERIES, 'SYDNEY SLEUTHERS' - filmaka.com/sydneysleuthers.php CO CURIOUS + NETFLIX (Aus) 'On The Bright Side' Initiative (Creator/Writer) - https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1023249005012696 SCREEN AUSTRALIA DEVELOPING THE DEVELOPER 2019 Selected Participant - https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/sa/media-centre/news/2019/11-13-developing-the-developer-participants-2019 HERE OUT WEST (2022) / BEHIND CLOSED DOORS INITIATIVE by CO CURIOUS (Producer Attachment - Development) - https://www.co-curious.com/2018/07/09/behind-closed-doors-participants-announcement/ - https://www.co-curious.com/2018/08/19/torch-interview-with-danielle-stamoulos-behind-closed-doors-producer/. Actor with a SYDNEY THEATRE AWARD NOMINATION (Best Ensemble Cast) in play 'SLUT' by Patricia Cornelius - https://artsreview.com.au/slut/ MWCH (Multicultural Centre for Womens' Health) The WRAP feature - https://mailchi.mp/mcwh/mcwh-wrap-9313882?e=8d9fef3102 AWG (Australian Writers Guild) - https://www.awgpathways.com.au/writer/danielle-stamoulos/