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VANESSA ALEXANDER

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VANESSA ALEXANDER

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VANESSA ALEXANDER

  • VANESSA ALEXANDER

    Screenwriter / Producer

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  • ABOUT

    Vanessa Alexander is an award-winning writer and producer best known for 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 Love Child as well as been nominated for Best Drama Screenplay for her work on the Australian comedy/drama The Wrong Girl . She is currently in developement on projects for Working Title and Monumental as well as writing a feature for Brouhaha.

    Prior to this, Vanessa worked extensively in New Zealand where she was twice nominated for Best Director and won best Best Drama Series and Best Kids Series. 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 her agents at William Morris is USA, The Agency in the UK, and RGM in Australia.

    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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  • CONTACT

    MANAGEMENT

    AUS: RGM

    UK: The Agency

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