Fiona Georgiou Hunt

Australian-born, Fiona has been living in the UK since 2017 . Starting her career in professional theatre, working on large musicals Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, and Les Miserable she then moved into playwrighting, screenwriting, and script consultancy.

Her screenwriting work has won a string of awards and accolades including:

Best of The Fest- Short + Sweet Festival (2026)

21- BBC Sounds ( 2026)

Best Drama Script- International Vocies of Women Festival (2026)

Heartwired -BBC Sounds (2025)

Top 10% BBC Writers Room (2025)

Killing off Bukowski -BBC Sounds ( 2025)

Top Talent Team  Comedy Crowd (2025)

Runner Up Best Comedy TV Pilot – LitLaughs Film Festival ( 2024)

Top 8% of screenplays Academy Nicholl Fellowship (2022)

Best Feature Film (2022) -Festigious Film Festival LA

Finalist -New York International Women’s Film Festival (2021)

Best First Time Screenwriter- Festigious Film Festival (2021)

Best Short Script (2021)-Austin International Art Festival

Best Short Screenplay Of The Year (2021)- Changing Faces Intl Film Festival

Quarterfinalist (2021) Cinema Street Short Screenplay Competiton

Fiona also writes and directs theatre & film, including ‘I’m Thrilled to Announce’ that won Short + Sweet Yorkshire Festival 2026 , 21 written and directed for Short + Sweet Festival 2026 , Outsourced and A Memorable One ,directed for Short + Sweet Festival 2026  Doris Day, one of six plays about women and the criminal justice system in Jan 2022,  short  film Dupont Takes The Biscuit  writtend and directed in June 2022 and Cooking with Elvis directed at Harrogate Theatre November 2022.

Fiona is currently a host/producer on The Script Department’s Women In Screenwriting podcast and works at Screen Yorkshire.

A past non-executive director of Australian Theatre for Young People, and current Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees at Harrogate Theatre, Fiona holds an MA in Screenwriting (Distinction)and a Bachelor of Education in Drama Education.