Christopher Gist

Christopher Gist is a writer and executive producer. He has developed and EP'd over 30 titles ranging from features to series television, commissioning and/or executive producing some of Australia's and New Zealand's highest rating dramas. For the Australian Broadcasting Corporation he commissioned and EP'd shows including Jack Irish (Guy Pearce), Old School (Sam Neill and Bryan Brown), Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (Essie Davis), and Australia's number one drama The Doctor Blake Mysteries. His feature film The World’s Greatest Martini / Martini Mumma is slated for production 2026. In new media, the Small Cow team has developed and written six Vertical dramas with global audiences in the hundreds of millions.

Sarah Mayberry

Sarah Mayberry is a producer, screenwriter, story consultant and story editor with more than 100 hours of television drama to her name. She has written feature film The Fabric of Christmas, and co-written Love Adjacent, which is scheduled to shoot early 2026. In TV, Sarah helmed Neighbour’s script department after Amazon re-commissioned the show, as well as writing on Channel 5 UK 4-part premium crime drama, Love Rat. In addition to writing more than 250 episodes of Neighbours, she has written for Wonderland (Network 10), and  Home and Away (Seven Network). She is also the lead writer and co-creator of young adult drama Karaoke High (TVNZ). In 2021, Sarah produced award-winning feature film, Darklands. She is a much-awarded, best selling author of a range of books, including more than 40 romance novels, details of which can be found at www.sarahmayberry.com

Daniel Chua

Daniel Chua is a filmmaker and screen content developer, who started his career on Crazy Rich Asians in camera and LX. As a producer at Turtle Media, Daniel collaborated on some of the biggest global hits in Vertical drama, with viewerships in the hundreds of millions, earning Turtle Media recognition as TikTok’s Top 10 Overseas Production Teams of 2024 and as Australia’s first TikTok for Business Partner. Daniel’s move to Small Cow Productions reflects his passion for original story and script development. Daniel is a key part of expanding Small Cow Productions’ slate for 2025/26, particularly in script delivery for a range of premium apps such as DramaBox, TikTok, Content Republic/Lemon, Bytedance, Kalos TV and MiniShorts. Daniel’s role at Small Cow signals the strengthening strategic alignment between Small Cow Productions and Turtle Media, and the increasing demand from international apps for script and story from Small Cow.

Max Archer

Max Archer has exploded onto the scene, writing 10 audience-grabbing series since 2024 across a wide range of genres. Max’s intense emotional narratives have garnered audiences over 130 million for a series, and received praise for their compelling explorations of love, relationships, and personal growth. This year, Max’s A Deal with the Hockey Captain opened at number one globally for DramaBox and has been taken up by Disney. After his 2024 Fake It ‘Til We Make It with Turtle Media, Max was delighted to see reviews including comments from verticaldramalove.com such as “The writer of this masterpiece is amazing”. Verticaldramalove reviewed Hockey Captain in these terms: “I can't tell you how many times I have watched this…One day when they teach classes about how to make the perfect vertical they should start with this gem from Turtle Media Production”. Indeed, they do: Max’s producers at Turtle Media have revealed that Hockey Captain has been used as a teaching artefact for USC Berkeley in the US. Max is currently delivering another YA drama and developing a new adult series for Content Republic.

Praise for Max:

“The writing is pitch-perfect for vertical drama — snappy and contemporary, but also deeply nostalgic. Dialogues carry that razor-sharp wit you’d find in early-2000s classics, where every exchange either flirts or fights”.

MEDIUM | July 2025

“…a great love story with a fab heroine, green flag male lead and satisfying ending…This is so refreshing! Thank you. It means we have a proper relationship where they look out for each other…I can't tell you how many times I have watched this. Why isn't there a DVD or buy-to-download option? The money I have spent resubscribing to rewatch this is concerning…”

VERTICAL DRAMA LOVE | June 2025