Stephen Vagg Explained

Stephen Vagg is an Australian writer. He wrote the films All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane, based on his play, and Jucy, as well as a number of plays and episodes of the television soaps Home and Away and Neighbours. He is the author of Rod Taylor: An Aussie in Hollywood, a biography of actor Rod Taylor, as well as a number of articles on film and theatre history. He received an AFI nomination for All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane.^[1] At the 2014 AWGIE Awards, Vagg won Best Script for a Television Serial for "Episode 6857" of Neighbours.^[2]

Selected credits

Films

• All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane (2007) – feature film – writer, associate producer, actor
• Jucy (2010) – feature film – writer, executive producer

Television

• McLeod's Daughters (2001) – researcher
• Young Lions (2001) – trainee script editor
• Out of the Blue (2008) – writer, script associate
• Home and Away (2009–13) – core writer, script editor, associate script producer
• Howzat! Kerry Packer's War (2012) – researcher
• Neighbours (2013–) – writer, supervising script editor, story producer

Plays

• All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane
• Dirty Caff
• Friday Night Drinks
• Nerd Formal
• Rebel Tour
• Trivia
• Love Song Dedications
• Tom and Nicole and Russell and Friends
• Sidekicks

Books

• The Quarter Life Crisis: A Collection of Plays (2006) – plays – writer
• Rod Taylor: An Aussie in Hollywood (2010) – book – writer

External links

• Personal website
  • Stephen Vagg at National Film and Sound Archive
• Stephen Vagg Australian theatre credits at AusStage

Notes and References

1. http://www.afi.org.au/AM/ContentManagerNet/HTMLDisplay.aspx?ContentID=4428&Section=Feature_Film_Nominees1 2008 AFI Nominees
2. Web site: Neighbours' AWGIE Award coup. 9 September 2014. FremantleMedia Australia. 26 January 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140911002304/http://www.fremantlemedia.com.au/news/neighbours-awgie-award-coup. 11 September 2014.