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Steve Vizard…

Steve Vizard is a Gold Logie and multi-award winning writer, performer, producer, broadcaster and lawyer. While practicing international law, Steve wrote extensively for theatre and television, including co-writing his first feature film screenplay, THE BIT PART, starring Nicole Kidman, for which he was nominated for a Writers Guild Award.

In 1989 Steve created, produced, was head writer and starred in the iconic and multi award-winning FAST FORWARD (and subsequently FULL FRONTAL), which for ten years were Australia's highest-rating and longest-running prime time television comedy shows.

In the ensuing years Steve produced, created and wrote numerous groundbreaking programs, from the acclaimed BIG GIRLS BLOUSE to THE MICALLEF PROGRAM. With Andrew Knight, Steve founded and was Chairman of Artist Services, one of Australia's largest independent film and television production houses, producing several series of SEACHANGE the ABC's highest rating drama series, award-winning and internationally-acclaimed mini-series, such as KANGAROO PALACE and SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR'S BABIES, and feature films including THE SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING and THE DEAD LETTER OFFICE as well as creating thecomedychannel with Foxtel.

As a producer and creator, Steve's shows have received more than twenty Logies, a dozen AFI, Television Society Awards, and an International Emmy nomination. He has been nominated for a Gold Logie four times, taking one home in 1991, and has won several Logies, Television Society Awards, four Australian Writers' Guild Awards and a Variety Club Award.

As a presenter, Steve hosted his own top-rating, five-nights-a-week national television show, TONIGHT LIVE WITH STEVE VIZARD, interviewing over a thousand major artists and celebrities. Steve has also written and edited several books and for six years was President of the National Gallery of Victoria; Chairman of Victorian Major Events, an elected delegate to the Constitutional Convention; and President of the Screen Producers Association of Australia; as well as supporting numerous charitable organisations including the Vizard Foundation and establishing, with Walter Mikac, The Alannah and Madeleine Foundation.

Most recently, Steve has returned to the stage as a writer — his PLAY THE LAST MAN STANDING premiered at Melbourne Theatre Company in 2015, and his applauded Opera, BANQUET OF SECRETS at the Victorian Arts Centre in 2016. He appears as a regular contributor on THE PROJECT, THE AGONY series, and STOP LAUGHING. As a radio host, Steve has worked across several networks including Macquarie Radio, for whom he hosted his own morning radio. He starred in the Tropfest winning film, GRANNY SMITH.

… as Anthony Woodward

Lily's father, Anthony was a successful businessman who changed his lifestyle dramatically after a mid-life crisis. He now lives in a sustainable eco-house, which he built himself. He is gentle and tries hard not to irritate his ex-wife Mimi, with limited success.