Christy Dena is a writer-designer-director who works with games, film, digital and live performative projects. Her original projects have won multiple interactive storytelling awards, and her work has been commissioned and selected for touring with Experimenta, Babycastles, and The Cube QUT. Christy has served on festival juries, funding and industry peer assessment panels. Christy organises events that nurture creatives who push the edges of industry, including Forward Slash Story, Crafting Intangibles, Extended Experiences Lab, and Transmedia Victoria. Christy has worked as the National Chair of Games and Department Coordinator of Games at SAE, as well as Programme Coordinator for the interdisciplinary Masters of Creative Industries, and as a Digital Producer for Planet X Studios and Imagine If. Christy has a PhD in Transmedia Practice, and shares her insights into creative practice in academic and industry publications such as Convergence Journal, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, ToDiGRA, and Cordite Literary Review.www.ChristyDena.com