{{short description|Australian writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''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'', a 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''.<ref>[http://www.afi.org.au/AM/ContentManagerNet/HTMLDisplay.aspx?ContentID=4428&Section=Feature_Film_Nominees1 2008 AFI Nominees]</ref> At the 2014 AWGIE Awards, Vagg won Best Script for a Television Serial for "Episode 6857" of ''Neighbours''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fremantlemedia.com.au/news/neighbours-awgie-award-coup|title=Neighbours' AWGIE Award coup|date=9 September 2014|publisher=FremantleMedia Australia|access-date=26 January 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140911002304/http://www.fremantlemedia.com.au/news/neighbours-awgie-award-coup|archive-date=11 September 2014}}</ref>

==Selected credits==

===Films=== *''All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane'' (2007) – writer, associate producer, actor *''Jucy'' (2010) – writer, executive producer *''All My Friends Are Back in Brisbane'' (2026) - writer, 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'' – writer, supervising script editor, story producer, script editor *''Rock Island Mysteries'' - story producer (season one and two) *''Darby and Joan'' - writer

===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

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==External links== *[http://stephenvagg.com/ Personal website] *{{IMDb name|1038254}} *[http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/summary/summary.w3p;adv=no;group=;groupequals=;page=0;parentid=;query=Person%3A%22%2FPerson%2Fkey%2F92408-1%22;querytype=;resCount=10 Stephen Vagg] at National Film and Sound Archive *[http://www.ausstage.edu.au/indexdrilldown.jsp?xcid=59&f_contrib_id=242098&f_event_id=78850 Stephen Vagg Australian theatre credits] at AusStage

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