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Deborah Parsons Deborah Parsons i(A19170 works by) (a.k.a. Deborah Mary Parsons)
Born: Established: 1954 ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Script-writer.

Deborah Parsons graduated from the Swinburne Film and TV School in Melbourne. She began work as a script-writer for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in the mid-1980s on comedy series The Gillies Republic (1986) and The Gerry Connolly Show (1988). She followed these with her first film script, the musical thriller In Too Deep (1990), which was the directorial debut of both Colin South and John Tatoulis.

Parsons wrote widely throughout the 1990s. She scripted episodes of children's adventure series Adventures on Kythera (1991) and American-produced but Australian-made remake Flipper (1995), but most of her work was for adult dramas, with a particular focus on crime dramas: she wrote for Phoenix (1993), G.P. (1993-1994), Janus (1994-1995), Mercury (1996), Police Rescue (1996), Good Guys Bad Guys (1997), State Coroner (1997), and Murder Call (1998-2000), as well as scripting the post-apocalyptic film Zone 39 (1996), which reunited her with director John Tatoulis.

Since 2000, Parsons has continued this pattern of focusing on adult (largely crime) dramas with occasional scripts for children's television. She has written for Water Rats (2000-2001), McLeod's Daughters (2001), Marshall Law (2002), Young Lions (2002), White Collar Blue (2003), MDA (2003), Blue Heelers (1999-2005), Headland (2005-2006), Home and Away (2008), Out of the Blue (2008), K9 (2009), Dance Academy (2010), and Bed of Roses (2010).

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

form y separately published work icon A Place to Call Home ( dir. Roger Hodgman et. al. )agent 2013 Australia : Channel 7 , 2012- Z1904429 2013 series - publisher film/TV 'Set in rural Australia in the 1950s, A Place to Call Home is a sweeping drama of one woman's journey to heal her soul and of a privileged family's confrontation with a changing era. A romantic saga based in the fictional town of Inverness - home to the Bligh family estate Ash Park - with a landscape as vast and dramatic as the people who live there.' (Source: http://www.throng.com.au/2012/07/new-seven-show-a-place-to-call-home/ )
2015 shortlisted Logie Awards Most Outstanding Drama Series
2015 nominated Logie Awards Best Drama
2014 nominated Logie Awards Most Outstanding Drama Series
2018 nominated Logie Awards Most Outstanding Drama Series
2017 winner Logie Awards Most Outstanding Drama Series
form y separately published work icon Dance Academy ( dir. Ian Watson et. al. )agent 2010-2013 Australia Melbourne : ABC Television Werner Film Productions , 2010- Z1732091 2010 series - publisher film/TV children's

A co-Australian and German television series, Dance Academy revolves around Tara Webster, a young woman who has grown up on property in outback Australia all the while dreaming of becoming a dancer. When she makes it into the National Academy of Dance, Tara realises that her life is about to change forever. As the series progresses, she also comes to realise that she is not alone in this journey.

2014 nominated Logie Awards Most Outstanding Children's Program
2013 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Best Children's Television Series Television Nominated for Series Three
2013 winner Logie Awards Most Outstanding Children's Program
2012 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Best Children's Television Series Nominated for series two.
2012 nominated The International Emmy Awards Children & Young People
2011 winner Logie Awards Most Outstanding Children's Program
form y separately published work icon White Collar Blue ( dir. Brendan Maher et. al. )agent 2002 Sydney : Network Ten Knapman Wyld Television , 2002-2003 6044859 2002 series - publisher film/TV crime detective

'The detectives of the Kingsway Major Crime Squad fight to preserve their Pacific Paradise. Crime knows no boundaries—from the Miami-like streets of Sylvania Waters, all dark glass and pontoons, to the towering cranes on the Container Wharves of Botany Bay, bordered by the white beaches and blue water between Monterey and Hungry Point. This is our world. It's tough. It's beautiful. Dangerous. A contradiction.'

Source: Australian Television Information Archive. (Sighted: 12/6/2013)

2004 nominated AFI Awards Australian Film Institute Awards Best Television Drama Series
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