Formerly known as LudlowLoungeNYC, Curlewis Creative is owned and operated by Australian-born, European resident Matthew Curlewis.

Presently the bulk of work taken on by the company revolves around screenwriting and copywriting. The previous work portfolio however, diversifies into all the categories found to the left - categories that continue to nourish Matthew as a creative individual, and cross-pollinate Curlewis Creative as a company.

Biography:
Matthew Curlewis is a screenwriter, script consultant, copywriter, journalist, designer and performance artist. His feature film story Breath of Life was shortlisted for the 2010 Sundance Sloan Foundation Commissioning Grant and his Dutch Film Fund funded project Kakkerlak! A Nuclear Opera, commissioned by Ka-Ching Cartoons, begins production in late 2010. Other screenplays include Paige Turner in Extasis and Love Attack, his feature developed at Amsterdam's Binger Filmlab, as well as his new feature animation in development with Ka-Ching Cartoons entitled See Fur Fly.

In June 2010 Matthew was one of two specially invited international tutors to Russia's Kinotavr Film Festival where he script consulted with ten up and coming Russian screenwriters, helping them develop new, original feature projects. Some of his other script editing commissions include Nadra by Sarah Lambert for IDTV Films, Room 384 for Lighthouse Productions, and Partisans of Lot for Fons Burger, while his general writing client list includes TribalDDB, Time Out Amsterdam, PUMA International, CineMart - International Film Festival Rotterdam, Fantastic Man Magazine and Amsterdam Weekly.

Since moving to Amsterdam in 2003, Matthew has led consistently sold out writing workshops with local organization wordsinhere. In 2008 he founded Amsterdam Writers, where he leads his own workshops and produces masterclasses with visiting writers.

Prior to Amsterdam Matthew spent fourteen years in New York City as a creative director in print and digital design with Fox Lorber Home Video, Doublespace, and his own company LudlowLoungeNYC.

Matthew has performed his original works and readings in New York at Stories from the Moth at Joe's Pub, at Marion's on the Bowery, and a host of cabaret venues. In Amsterdam he has appeared at the Sugar Factory, Winston Kingdom, The Kring and Bevrijdingsdag at the Homomonument. He also acted in numerous productions for the Provincetown Theatre Company, and in the '90s toured Europe, Australia and North America with the Australian performance trio Chrome.

Matthew is a graduate of Australia's Centre for Performing Arts, New York University's Gallatin School (BA Cultural Criticism / Performance Studies), and Amsterdam's Binger Filmlab (Screenwriting, Script Editing). He is also the great grandson of Ethel Turner, one of Australia's best-loved authors, most well known for her novel Seven Little Australians, translated into ten languages and published in more than 40 editions.