Tim Gooding is a screenwriter/playwright. He wrote for the legendary Aunty Jack Show, Norman Gunston, and Wollongong the Brave, and created the hit musical series Sweet and Sour; his feature films include Heatwave and On The Loose; for stage, the musicals King Of Country and Rock-Ola, comedies Tentshow Pagliacci and Drums Along the Diamantina and a translation of Moliere's The Miser for the Sydney Theatre Company. His scripts won first prize at the 2007 Chicago International Children's Film Festival and the Theme Prize 2008 Prix Jeunesse, Munich. He is recipient of a 'Distinctly Australian' Writer's Fellowship from the Australian Film Commission.