Multi-award-winning writer, producer and showrunner Sarah Lambert has enjoyed an extremely rich and varied career. Finding early success as an actor, she went on to write and direct documentaries before turning her writing talents to drama. Beginning by creating, writing and directing Aliens Among Us for the ABC and C5 in the UK, she went on to write on The Alice, Love My Way, All Saints, Dance Academy, A Place To Call Home, and The Doctor Blake Mysteries. From there, she created, wrote and produced the hit Australian drama Love Child, followed by the acclaimed television adaptation of Marele Day’s Lambs of God, for which Sarah was the writer and showrunner.
Currently, Sarah is writer and showrunner on the highly anticipated television adaptation of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, by Holly Ringland, for Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories and Amazon. She is also writer and executive producer of the adaptation of Markus Zusak’s novel The Messenger for Lingo Pictures and the ABC, currently shooting in NSW.
Join Sam Meikle in conversation with Sarah as they discuss her creative pathway, her process, her work here and overseas, and her evolution as a showrunner.
WHEN: Tuesday 26 July 2022 from 7pm AEST
WHERE: Online
TICKETS: Free, but RSVPs essential.
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