Tammy Burnstock is a writer, director and event producer. She spent 12 years in the Children's department of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in a variety of roles, including originating the award-winning online gateway The Playground. In 2014 and as a director then writer of Play School for 30 years!
Tammy is also a community project producer, facilitator and storyteller in the co-design space. Including three years as a Storyteller working with young people at the Story Factory, sharing stories created with people with disability (for the Council for Intellectual Disability), and with clients of the Asylum Seeker Centre for the Wendy Sharpe exhibition Seeking Humanity.
Currently Tammy is facilitator/trainer for Circles Widen, a project that trains peers with disability to be facilitators in the Circles of Support model. Tammy is a scented storyteller. She consultants for Molten Immersive Art, is the co-curator for an international virtual series of scented cinema, and co-director of documentary feature film, In-Glorious Smell-O-Vision! the True Story of the Godfather of Scented Cinema (2019).
Consistent across all areas of work is a sense of humour, along with a passion for the senses, story, co-design principles and ensuring that diverse voices are heard.
Tammy has a degree in writing/directing (AFTRS), a diploma in counselling (ACAP) and masters in Social Policy (UNSW).