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.
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"A very funny new Australian funny play by Stephen Vagg... It is both self referential and plays with the ‘fourth wall’ which I found surprising and quite charming. This is a fantastic achievement for the writer Stephen Vagg who is able to guide us through delicate emotional storytelling to hilarious slapstick awkwardness and back again without batting an eye. The sassy audience addresses, simple and effective directing and a cheeky sex scene, give this piece a wonderfully rounded feel. If you are a fan of romcoms, sitcoms or just coms in general go see this play!”
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"Vagg's play is a clever, witty vehicle for it's confident cast that also allows a sense of play and the ability to comment on itself, Brechtian style, when actor overlapped with character. It was a great touch and often they included us in on the joke. It looked like it was fun to be in and it was certainly fun to watch.”SOYP Blog | Read More
"A very funny, very engaging piece of theatre."
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Theatre
Sidekicks (2012) – Old 505 Sydney 2012, Adelaide Fringe Festival 2013, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2013
All My Friends Are Leaving Adelaide (2012) – Adelaide Fringe Festival 2012
Tom and Nicole and Russell and Friends (2008) – Darlinghurst Theatre 2008
Love Song Dedications (2006) – Riverina Theatre Wagga Wagga 2006, Seymour Centre Sydney 2006, Metro Arts Brisbane 2007
Trivia (2006) – Newtown Theatre Sydney 2006, Wollongong Uni 2006, Metro Arts Brisbane 2006, Arts Theatre Brisbane 2013
Dick and Liz (2006) – Short and Sweet Sydney 2006 (short play)
Rebel Tour (2005) – Old Fitzroy Sydney 2005, La Mama Melbourne 2006
Simon Crean! The Musical (2003) – Tap Gallery Sydney 2003 (co-writer only)
Nerd Formal (2003) – SBW Stables Sydney 2003, Newington College Sydney 2009
Friday Night Drinks (2002) – Cement Box Brisbane 2002, Tap Gallery Sydney 2002 & 2007, SBW Stables Sydney 2002, La Bar Melbourne 2003, Adelaide Fringe 2008. 2003 AWGIE nomination, Monte Miller Award
Dirty Caff (2001) – Cement Box Brisbane 2001
All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane (2000) – Cement Box Brisbane 2000, St Johns College Brisbane 2009, Springwood High School 2012, Gold Coast Arts Centre 2013, Kew Playhouse 2013. 2001 Lightglobe Theatre Award for Best Original Play
TelevisionNeighbours – writer (2012 to present), supervising script editor (2013), story producer (2013 to present)
Tricky Business – script editor for proposed series 2 (2012)
Howzat! The Story of World Series Cricket – researcher (2012)
Home and Away – writer (2008–13), script editor (2008–09), associate script producer (2009–11)
Out of the Blue – writer (2007–08), script associate (2008)
The Great Outdoors – researcher (2002–2004)
The Young Lions – trainee script editor (2001)
McLeod’s Daughters – researcher (2001)
FilmJucy (2010) – writer, co-executive producer – Official selection at Toronto Film Festival 2010, Brisbane International Film Festival 2010, Gold Coast Film Festival 2010, Woman's Film Festival Seoul 2011, London Australian Film Festival 2011, Seattle International Film Festival 2011, Scottsdale Film Festival 2011, Israel Australian Film Festival 2011.
All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane (2007) – writer, associate producer – Official selection at Brisbane International Film Festival 2007, NatFilm 2007 (winner audience award), London Australian Film Festival 2007 (winner audience award), Singapore Film Festival 2007, Mons Film Festival 2008, Dungog Film Festival 200. Released theatrically in Australia 2007 (Greater Union and Accent Entertainment) and in Denmark in 2008. AFI nomination for best adapted screenplay.
Books
Rod Taylor: An Aussie in Hollywood (2010) – the first full-length biography of the actor Rod Taylor
The Quarter-Life Crisis: Three Plays (2007) – includes All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane, Dirty Caff and Friday Night Drinks -
MA Screenwriting AFTRS
MA (Hons) Screen Studies AFTRS
Bachelor of Law (Hons) UQ
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2014 Awgie Award Best Script for a Television Serial
2007 AFI Nomination Best Adapted Screenplay for Feature FIlm
