Declan started his career as a fat baby on Prisoner, before moving onto more meatier roles such as ‘Kid who says “Goodnight Australia”’ on Young Talent Time. Since then he has written for The Chaser, Rove, Dirty Laundry Live, Problems and the kid’s comedy series, You’re Skitting Me. He has also written for documentaries such as Felicity’s Mental Mission (ABC) and Hipsters (SBS). Last year he worked as the series producer and head writer for the ABC sketch series Fancy Boy, which also screened on Seeso in the United States. He is also the co-creator and co-writer of the  ABC comedy, Ronny Chieng: International Student, which will screen on Comedy Central in the US early next year.Declan has directed a number of award winning comedy stage shows, such as Felicity Ward in The Hedgehog Dilemma (Nominated 2012 Barry Award, MICF), David Quirk’s Shaking Hands with Danger (Winner 2013 Piece of Wood Award, MICF) and Ronny Chieng’s Chieng Reaction(Winner 2014 Director’s Choice Award, MICF, 2014 Best Show Sydney Comedy Festival). On radio, Declan has worked on Triple R, Triple J and five years ago, started The Sweetest Plum podcast, which became the top rating podcast in Australia, before completely selling out and taking a pile of money to move to Triple M where he hosted the Sydney Drive show. 

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In this episode:  In this episode – we chat about the moving from being on stage to being behind the scenes as a writer/producer and director, what makes a good script, the process of putting a TV show together from scratch, writing for other people, knowing your strength and weaknesses and the fear of failure. 

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