Briony Kidd is a film and theatre maker based in lutruwita/Tasmania. Her short film, the Gothic melodrama The Room at the Top of the Stairs (2010), screened around the world and was licensed by Shudder. Her theatre projects include the play Death By Television (2011) for the Tasmanian Theatre Company and three audio-based plays with the Radio Gothic collective for Dark Mofo (2016-17). In 2019 she was an associate producer of the all-women horror anthology Dark Whispers: Volume 1, in collaboration with creator Megan Riakos, and also directed one of the segments. With various feature film projects in development, Briony’s work as a screenwriter has been supported by Screen Tasmania, VicScreen and Screen Australia. In addition, Briony is known as the co-founder and director of the acclaimed Stranger With My Face International Film Festival, which focused on underrepresented perseptives in horror, and as a film programmer, critic and consultant. Currently, she is a PhD candidate at Deakin University, investigating the unique traditions of the psychobiddy horror film. ​