Bio

Sally Alrich-Smythe is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright, and story consultant.

Most recently, she has written on NCIS:Sydney (Season 4), after spending a year in-house as Writers’ Assistant. To date, Sally has also written twelve episodes of Home and Away, where she previously worked as Senior Storyliner for three years. While Sally has a wealth of experience writing on other IP, she’s a creator in her own right too. In 2021, her (now optioned) TV pilot Dirty Road was highly commended for the Australian Writer’s Guild’s Monte Miller Award. In 2024, Sally was chosen to partake in Screen Australia and EndemolShine’s “Early Career Writer Program”, shortly after completing another placement with Fresh Ink at StudioCanal Australia.

Sally has also enjoyed many accolades in theatre. In 2023, Sally’s play Wavelength won The Australian Theatre Festival New Play Award, and was read to a sold out audience at Theatre Row, New York. The same play was longlisted for The Shane and Catherine Brennan Play Award the following year. It was originally developed as part of ATYP’s Fresh Ink program, and performed at the King St Theatre, Sydney in 2022. In 2019, Sally’s play Homesick enjoyed a sold-out season at The Old 505, Sydney.

After studying Creative Writing at the University of Technology Sydney, Sally trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 2016 for Musical Theatre, and later returned there to do her Master of Fine Arts: Writing for Performance in 2018.