Wayne Hope is an actor, writer, director and producer at Gristmill, the acclaimed production company he founded with his wife, Robyn Butler. As an actor, Wayne has appeared in iconic comedies, The Castle (1997), The Micallef Program (1998), and Very Small Business (2008), which Wayne also co-wrote and produced. Wayne also co-created, produced and directed the celebrated and award winning comedies, The Librarians (2007) Upper Middle Bogan (2013) and Little Lunch (2015) for ABC TV and The InBESTigators (2019) for Netflix/ABC and the feature film, Now Add Honey (2015). He was nominated for Best Performance in a Television Comedy for Back in Very Small Business (2018) and recently co-created the anthology series Summer Love (2022).