Stephen Vagg
Australian writer

Stephen Vagg

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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, the first full-length 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. At the 2014 AWGIE Awards, Vagg won Best Script for a Television Serial for "Episode 6857" of Neighbours.

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