Muster Dogs

About the Author

Monica is an experienced creator and show runner across many genres including Factual Entertainment, Drama and Children's Entertainment. Over the past 17 years Monica has worked with Ambience Entertainment in production and development across a broad slate of programming, including; Magical Tales, Drop Dead Weird, Muster Dogs, Barrumbi Kids and The Garden Hustle. Through her time writing, directing, and producing the Muster Dogs series, Monica has travelled Australia meeting incredible people, learning about their communities, and filming their beautiful dogs. Through that process she has been enriched by the stories of working dogs and the lives they live. Monica lives in Frenchs Forest, Sydney. Michael Boughen has worked as an actor, writer, director and producer in the film and entertainment industry in UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. He has written stage plays, TV drama, films and light entertainment shows. A prolific producer, his credits include Erky Perky, Figaro Pho and major event TV such as MTV VMAs, Nickelodean Kid's Choice Awards and Big Brother. He produced the very first English-speaking version of Deal or No Deal. Michael wrote and produced the feature film Dying Breed (2008), and produced Sean Byrne's The Loved Ones (2009), Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010), Killer Elite starring Jason Statham and Robert de Niro (2011), Storm Boy for Sony (2019), Interceptor (2022) and wrote the feature Great White released in 2021. A prolific creator, he has created and written over 2000 hours of programming including the ABC hit Muster Dogs. He currently producing Bruce Beresford's latest film Overture. Michael lives in Knowsley, Victoria Melissa Spencer (Stock Chick Films) is a videographer/photographer and grazier from Capella, Queensland. With a working dog team of her own and years of experience working on cattle properties in Central Queensland, she has a deep passion for showcasing rural stories and the beauty and skill of Australia's working dogs through her lens. As a visual content creator specialising in video and photography of rural life and culture, she has also worked as a camera operator and photographer on the TV series Muster Dogs.