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Tony Ayres

Writer · at Matchbox Pictures · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Tony Ayres is a writer and director at Matchbox Pictures based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia with 2 credits on Production List, most recently 1978 (director, in pre-production). Other credits include Clickbait. Represented by RGM Literary. Production List last updated this profile on October 5, 2026.

2 Productions1 CompanyUpdated Oct 5, 2026

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Tony Ayres is one of Australia's most acclaimed and prolific showrunners, writers, and directors, born in 1961 in Portuguese Macau and based in Melbourne, Australia. A founding member of Matchbox Pictures (2008–2026), he departed to establish Tony Ayres Productions (TAP) in 2018, backed by Universal International Studios. His work spans landmark Australian television including The Slap, Nowhere Boys, Clickbait (Netflix global #1), Stateless, and The Survivors (Netflix global #2), and feature films Walking on Water, The Home Song Stories, and Cut Snake. In 2025, he rejoined Big and Little Films to focus on writing and directing, and is currently developing the ABC series Toxic, co-created with Elise McCredie, inspired by the Erin Patterson 'mushroom murders' trial.

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The Survivors (2025)Clickbait (2021)Stateless (2020)Fires (2021)Nowhere Boys (2013)The Slap (2011)The Home Song Stories (2007)Cut Snake (2015)Walking on Water (2002)Glitch (2015)

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