FIREBUG: another pilot script
Earlier this year, the New Zealand Writers Guild added a new category to the SWANZ Awards for 2016: unproduced scripts for film and television. I had a pilot script called Firebug that’d been kicking around the cave for a few years so when I heard about the new category I thought, What the hell. It went on to win best unproduced television script. …
One More Schmooze
The other week, I went to the changing of the guard at the Auckland Playmarket office: Stuart Hoar is moving on to less reading (of other people’s writing) and more writing (of his own) (which is as it should be), and will be replaced by Allison Horsley, formerly Court Theatre Literary Manager. There was food and drink on hand, and …
Scripts
The following list is not exhaustive — some commission projects cannot be listed for contractual reasons. Some scripts are available on request. PLAYS MISS RIDLING INVESTIGATES (2022) A retired librarian and a dementing former detective investigate the murder of a fellow retirement village resident. FALE AĪTU: HOUSE OF SPIRITS (2021) Newly orphaned siblings RUTH and …