VANESSA ALEXANDER
VANESSA ALEXANDER
Screenwriter / Producer
ABOUT
Vanessa Alexander is an award-winning writer and producer best known for writing on The Great (Hulu) and Vikings: Valhalla (Netflix). For her work on the former, she was nominated for Best Comedy and Best New Series at the WGA Awards, for the latter she was made a Co-Executive Producer of season 2. In the past, she has also written for Tin Star and been nominated for an AWGIE for writing for her work on the Australian comedy/drama The Wrong Girl, where she also wrote on the acclaimed drama Love Child.
Prior to this, Vanessa worked extensively in New Zealand where she also won many awards. She was the lead director of the acclaimed series Outrageous Fortune, the first female director of the Power Rangers series, and the Executive Producer of Taika Waititi's Oscar-nominated short, Two Cars, One Night. Her New Zealand teen series, Being Eve, won a multitude of awards internationally and received an International Emmy nomination.
Outside of her screen work, Vanessa has a B.A. in English Literature, a P.G. Dip in Directing, a Masters in Film and Television Theory and a Ph.D in Creative Writing from University of New South Wales. With a British mother, and Kiwi father, five children, one foster son, two ex-husbands and a mid life crises at a clown school in Paris, Vanessa is rarely short of inspiration for a story.For a full CV please contact info@rgm.com.au.
Excerpt from ABC's Art Works | Season 2 Episode 16: View full episode on iview.
WRITING CREDITS
VIKINGS: VALHALLA (2022-2023)
THE GREAT (2020-2021)
TIN STAR (2020)
THE WRONG GIRL (2016 - 2017)
LOVE CHILD (2016-2017)
AGENT ANNA (2012)
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
Writers Guild of America
Nominated | WGA Award Best Comedy (The Great)
Nominated | Best New Series (The Great)
Australian Writers' Guild
Nominated | AWGIE Award (The Wrong Girl)
New Zealand Writers Guild Award
Winner | Best Comedy TV Script (Agent Anna)
International Emmy
Nomination (Being Eve)
New Zealand Screen Awards
Winner | Best Series (Being Eve)
EDUCATION
Ph.D in Creative Writing
B.A. in English Literature
P.G. Dip in Directing
Masters in Film and Television
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