Ally Burnham is an AWGIE winning screenwriter and novelist. A NIDA graduate (2016, Masters, Writing for Performance), she is also the Creative Producer at Westwords - Western Sydney's literary development organisation.

Ally is best known for her feature film Unsound (2020), which was nominated for best original feature at the 2020 AWGIE Awards. A romantic-drama, the film won best Australian feature at the 2020 Melbourne Queer Film Festival, best fiction feature film at the 2020 ATOM Awards, and was nominated for best indie feature at the 2020 AACTA Awards. 

Ally is the lead writer of Metropius (AcropolisWorld), a multi-media franchise produced by 18 Degrees. In 2019 the project received funding from Screen Queensland, and her screenplay for the animation won Most Outstanding Animation at the 2022 AWGIE Awards. In 2021 project was awarded the Epic Games' Epic Megagrants to expand into an AR experience, board game, and the release of the first issue of her comic book, Forgotten Rose (2022). Further collaborating with 18 Degrees, Ally shares a writing credit on the comedy-heist feature film, Nice Package (2016).

Writing for television, Ally has collaborated on projects for CJZ, and assisted on projects for Essential Media and Blackfella Films in 2017. In 2016, developing for CJZ, Sweet Jane, was a recipient of Screen Australia’s Gender Matters initiative.

In 2014, Ally graduated from Griffith Film School with a Bachelor in Film and Screen Media. For her graduate work, Ally wrote and directed the short, 2.0. The film celebrated a fruitful festival run, appearing in competition at seven international film festivals. In 2013, Ally won the Australian-wide young filmmaker’s competition, ‘The Shoot’, hosted by Baz Luhrmann, NIDA and Samsung. Her short film, The Pilgrim Report, premiered at the Sydney Opera House during its 40th Anniversary Celebrations.

Ally also writes as a novelist. In 2020 she received a residency fellowship from Varuna House, for the development of her fantasy YA manuscript, Majesty. She is a contributing author and editor to the fantasy, sci-fi & horror short story collection The New Mythic, which was nominated for two 2023 Aurealis Awards. She also drops weekly podcast episodes called Prose & Cons; a podcast by emerging writers, for emerging writers. When there is time, she teaches at NIDA Open, training school-aged and adult students in screenwriting for film and television.