Danielle Stamoulos

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Awards & Nominations LEAD ACTOR/WRITER of GORGO - 2025 AACTA AWARD WINNER FOR BEST AUSTRALIAN SHORT FILM 2025 WINNER BEST PERFORMANCE - GORGO - Stellar Shorts Film Festival (Australia) 2025 WINNER SPECIAL MENTION - GORGO - Stellar Shorts Film Festival (Australia) GORGO was also in Official Selection at 39th Santa Barbara International Film Festival SBIFF 2024 North American Premiere (plus more festivals below) 2020/2019 - SYDNEY SLEUTHERS (web series) - Official Selection Die Seriale (Germany) - Official Selection Women’s Comedy Film Festival Atlanta - Official Selection Miami Web Fest 2020 - Santa Monica Web Fest Finalist 2020 - WINNER Best Cast Ensemble / Best Web Series / Best Director / Best Editing ONIROS Film Awards (Italy) - WINNER Best Ensemble Cast Comedy 2019 ASIA WEB AWARDS - WINNER Made in the West Film Festival - NYC WEB FEST 2019 Official Selection - 2018 Filmaka Competition Pilot Winner (LA) 2016 Sydney Theatre Award Nomination for 'Best Ensemble Cast' For SLUT by Patricia Cornelius, WITS Festival Fatale Voted 1 of top 11 Shows of 2016 Sydney Back by popular demand at the Old Fitz with Redline Productions, June 2017 ★★★★★ Time Out Sydney ★★★★½ Arts Hub ★★★★ Daily Review Training/Education: 2013 - ACA (Actors Centre Australia) Graduate with an Advanced Diploma of Performing Arts (Acting) 2021 - AFTRS Masters of Screen: Screenwriting BIO: Danielle Stamoulos (she/her) is a 2025 AACTA (Australian Academy of Cinema & Television Arts) award winning filmmaker, actor & writer of second generation Greek-Australian ethnicity. Her short film she created, wrote & lead acted in - GORGO - is the WINNER of the 2025 AACTA AWARD BEST AUSTRALIAN SHORT FILM. Danielle also recently won the 2025 BEST PERFORMANCE AWARD for Gorgo at Australia’s invite-only short festival Stellar Film Festival, showcasing Australia’s best of the best short films. It also has screened at various national & international festivals worldwide, some include Northern American premiere at SBIFF24 (Santa Barbara International Film Festival), Newport Beach Film Festival, Roving Eye Rhode Island International Film Festival, Antipodes Film Festival (Saint Tropez), WINNER of Best Original Music at the Academy/BAFTA Qualifying 2024 Flickerfest Film Festival (Australia), St Kilda Film Festival nominations and it was the WINNER of the ‘Special Mention’ award at 2025 Stellar Film Festival (Australia). Danielle's original supernatural cringe comedy online series CURSE OF THE VIRGIN received competitive Screen Australia online development funding in 2024. It was also earlier part of the Digital Diasporas initiative with ACE (Arts & Cultural Exchange). She is currently writing a feature film as 1 of 5 writers who grew up in Western Sydney with AACTA nominated production company Co Curious (Here Out West), commissioned by Powerhouse Museum. Danielle was also selected for the 2024 CINEFEST OZ/WIFT AUS WRITER’S RETREAT in Busselton, Western Australia, was a Story Developer for Damien Strouthos’ (The Twelve) debut feature film PANOS, PANNOS & GEORGE, directed by Peter Andrikidis. Danielle co-wrote Episode 4 - ‘For The Likes’ - for HALAL GURLS (ABCiview), and was the Producers’ Attachment (Development) for Co Curious’ feature HERE OUT WEST. Her original concept for a body-horror comedy TV series called FURIES was selected for the NETFLIX’S Creative Equity Fund alongside Co Curious. Danielle completed a Scripted Ink Writer’s Internship with STUDIOCANAL AUS/NZ, and was selected for the 2019 Screen Australia Developing the Developer initiative, whereupon she had a Development Placement with acclaimed LINGO PICTURES. In-between gigs, Danielle worked as the Script Coordinator for SBS’/ARCADIA show WHILE THE MEN ARE AWAY alongside Showrunner Kim Wilson and Script Coordinator on S1 of to THE LETDOWN (NETFLIX/ABC). Other acting credits include play LADYBIRD LADYBIRD by Linda Nicholls-Gidley at Flightpath Theatre (NSW) directed by Anthony Skuse, SBS’ WHILE THE MEN ARE AWAY, LOVE CHILD S4 (Channel 9 Australia), internationally award-winning murder comedy web series SYDNEY SLEUTHERS (WINNER Best Ensemble Cast Comedy 2019 Asia Web Awards /WINNER/2019 NYC Web Fest Film), short doco film SHADING (Diversity Arts Australia), TO BE HONEST (Bankstown Arts Centre), EI8HT at 2015 Sydney Fringe Festival and THE CANTERBURY TALES (The New Theatre). Danielle founded theatre company EDGEWARE FORUM, where they received a BEST ENSEMBLE CAST 2016 Sydney Theatre Award nomination for Patricia Cornelius' play SLUT. Check out: www.daniellestamoulos.com