Stephen Vagg
Stephen Vagg
Stephen is an award-winning writer, script editor, producer and director of TV, film and theatre. His credits include Neighbours, Darby and Joan, Rock Island Mysteries, Home and Away and All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane.
Biography
Stephen Vagg is a writer, script editor, producer and director. He is currently a script editor and writer on Neighbours for FremantleMedia, a writer on Darby and Joan for CJZ Productions, and Reap, a new television series in development at Bunya Productions. He was story producer for the first two seasons of Rock Island Mysteries, an adventure series for Nickelodeon UK which has screened in 170 territories. For over three years he was story producer on Neighbours supervising the writing department and plotting over one thousand thirty-minute episodes. Prior to that he was a story producer, writer and script editor for several years on Home and Away. He wrote and co-produced the feature films Jucy and All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane. Stephen’s script for All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Australian Film Institute Award. He won an Australian Writers Guild Award for his Neighbours script Episode 6857, the first time the show had won in that category in ten years. Stephen is the author Rod Taylor: An Aussie in LA, a biography of Australian actor Rod Taylor, and was a consultant on the feature film documentary, Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches. He has also worked as a freelance script editor, researcher and story consultant, and is the author and director of several plays which have been performed around the world. He is an internationally recognised film historian, who has recorded several Blu-Ray audio commentaries.
Ad Astra Plays
Upcoming Plays
Past Plays
Other Work
2024 – Darby and Joan (Television), CJZ Productions, Writer Season 2
2023- present – Neighbours (Television), Fremantle Australia, Script Editor, Writer
2023 – All My Friends Are Returning to Brisbane (Theatre), Fringe Brisbane, Director, Producer, Writer
2021-2023 – Rock Island Mysteries (Television), Nickelodeon UK, Script producer
Training
MA Screenwriting AFTRS
MA (Hons) Screen Studies AFTRS
Bachelor of Law (Hons) UQ
Awards
2014 Awgie Award Best Script for a Television Serial
2007 AFI Nomination Best Adapted Screenplay for Feature FIlm