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Fiona Samuel
Fiona Samuel is a writer and director for television, theatre, radio and film. Starting with her original TVNZ television series The Marching Girls in 1987, she has created a body of work that puts the female experience front and centre. Her most recent dramas for television are a trio of telemovies: Bliss (2011) about the beginning of Katherine Mansfield’s brilliant career, Consent (2014), the story of Louise Nicholas and her epic 25-year fight for justice, and Piece of My Heart (scheduled for 2019) about unmarried teenage mothers forced to ‘give’ their babies for adoption in 1960s New Zealand. Fiona is an Arts Foundation Laureate, awarded in 2012 for her body for work in television, theatre and film.