Stephen Vagg
Stephen Vagg
Stephen Vagg is a writer of films, TV, books and plays.
For over three years he was story producer on the internationally-screened serial drama Neighbours, supervising the writing department, and helping plot over a thousand thirty-minute episodes. Prior to that he was a story producer, writer and script editor for several years on the serial drama Home and Away.
Stephen wrote the feature films Jucy and All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane, the latter earning an AFI Award Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Stephen won an AWGIE Award for his Neighbours script for episode 6857 – this was the first time in a decade that Neighbours had won in this category.
He is the author of the biography Rod Taylor: An Aussie in LA, which was turned into the documentary Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches, in which Stephen appeared as an interviewee. He has also worked as a script editor, researcher and consultant, and is the author of several plays that have been performed around the world, including the AWGIE-nominated Friday Night Drinks.