But Yolanda Ramke, along with her working partner Ben Howling, has gone from a viral short film, to a feature with an International actor, to direct in North America, to receive two AWGIES from the Writers’ Guild, to then create Troppo, the drama series currently running on the ABC. All in less than ten years.
‘I was just trying to learn and figure out how all the pieces fit together. When we made student productions I gravitated very early towards the role of writer and director, and I did draw encouragement from the fact that my classmates would tend to vote to get my projects up.’