Mathew is President of Australian teachers of Media NSW and is Coordinator of the Drama Department at Loreto Kirribilli. He is author of the Drama text book Centre Stage, writer of education notes for the Sydney Opera House HouseEd program and currently teaches both film and drama to students in Year 9-12. Mathew holds a Certificate of New Media from the University of Technology Sydney and recently completed his Masters Research Degree at the University of Sydney focussing on issues related to intercultural performance work that uses Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Drama. He is currently working on his PhD that focuses on emerging critical theories and aesthetic practice based on an arts education paradigm to understand how this approach to learning in Media Arts engages students in the creation of meaning through the manipulation of the aesthetics of moving image.

Miranda Jefferson teaches in drama curriculum and film learning in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney. Miranda is a member of the Arts, English and Literacy Education Research Network and her research involves creativity, literacy, drama and film learning. Currently her research focus is the development and implementation of creative arts pedagogy in schools. With Dr Michael Anderson, she has co-written Teaching the Screen: Film Education for Generation Next (2009). She has been supervisor of marking for HSC drama in NSW, a Board of Studies syllabus writer (Years 7–10 and HSC drama) and head teacher of film and drama at Newtown High School of the Performing Arts. She is a member of the Drama Examination Committee for 2012. In 2008 Miranda received an Outstanding Professional Service Award for drama education.

Dr. Michael Anderson's research and teaching concentrates on how arts educators begin, evolve and achieve growth in their careers and how students engage with arts and technology to learn and create in arts education. This work has evolved into a program of research and publication that engages with arts classrooms directly. His recent publications explore how aesthetic education is changing in the 21st Century. These publications include Teaching the Screen, Film Education for Generation Next (with Miranda Jefferson), Drama with Digital Technology (with John Carroll and David Cameron, Continuum, 2009) and Real Players: Drama, Education and Technology (with John Carroll and David Cameron Trentham, 2006). The research reported in these books uncovers innovative linkages between drama education and theatre for young people that could significantly improve learning outcomes for students in the arts. Michael was a drama a teacher and Creative Arts Consultant with the NSW DET and holds senior positions in drama curriculum development and assessment with the NSW Board of Studies.

Cindy Pecovnik is an enthusiastic teacher of both Drama and Media Arts. After completing a Communications Degree she worked as a publicity co-ordinator for the ABC. She then returned to university to complete a Post Graduate Diploma of Education. Cindy has always included a strong focus on Media Arts in her programs. She has worked as a HSC Marker in the Individual Project, ‘Short Film’ option. Cindy is currently a teacher at Blue Mountains Grammar School.

Amy Murphy teaches English and Drama to students in Years 7-12 at James Ruse Agricultural High School. She has presented at conferences and had units of work published. Amy has been involved with extra-curricular film projects at a variety of schools. She has taught overseas and has a particular interest in international education, literacy, drama and film learning, community theatre projects and gifted and talented teaching and learning.