Brendan Gleeson is Deputy Director, Urban Frontiers Program, University of Western Sydney.

Flanagans film credits include The Others (opposite Nicole Kidman), and Waking Ned Devine. Of her enormous body of work, including stage, television and film, Flanagan might be most well-known for "James Joyce's Women," in which she plays the part of six different women who had a profound influence on Joyce's life. Besides giving an award-winning performance, she also wrote, adapted and produced the piece for the stage, and subsequently as a feature film.