Maria Lewis

Maria Lewis is an AWGIE award-winning screenwriter, best-selling author, and pop culture etymologist. Over the past 18 years of her career, she has built an international reputation as a storyteller across a diverse range of mediums including 11 novels such as Marvel’s Mockingbird: Strike Out, Assassin’s Creed - Mirage: Daughter Of No One and The Graveyard Shift, a pop cultural slasher set in Melbourne.

As a screenwriter, she has worked on projects for Netflix, AMC, Ubisoft, DC Comics, Stan, SBS, ABC and made her directorial debut in 2023 with The House That Hungers,. Her rom-com One Last Gob Job was a No.1 recommendation by The Black List.

She also created award-winning audio documentaries usch as The Phantom Never Dies and has programmed film seasons at ACMI on classic movie monsters, cult classics, romantic comedies and Australian neo-noir films titled Yeah Noir.