Candy Bowers is a radical mischief-maker born of South African political refugees. A true multi-hyphenate, Candy is a writer/ actor/ director/ comic/ lyricist/ visual artist/ theatre maker/ filmmaker. A Nida-trained actor she smashed onto the scene with cult hip hop comedy duo Sista She, frequenting Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Adelaide Fringe, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, St Kilda Music Festival, Sydney Festival and Edinburgh Fringe (UK). She is the original creator/ collaborator of the internationally award-winning Hot Brown Honey Burlesque and her latest afro-futuristic hip hop musical One the Bear played to over three thousand teenagers at Arts Centre Melbourne and Sydney Opera House in 2019. Candy’s screen credits include: field contributor/ correspondent on Tonightly with Tom Ballard (ABC), acting/ writers room Get Krack!n (ABC), Legally Brown, (development) of The Back Room (SBS/ Film Victoria) and Dirty Thirties (Screen Australia.) Candy is the recipient of Screen Australia/ Australians in Film 2019 MentorshipLA Initiative, which attached her to Executive Producer and Peter Saji (Disney.) She has been picked up by WRIT-large Los Angeles and spends her time writing for the screen between Melbourne Australia and Hollywood USA.