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Marieke Hardy Marieke Hardy i(A69361 works by)
Born: Established: 1976 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Born in Melbourne, Marieke Hardy is the daughter of television producers and scriptwriters Alan Hardy and Galia Hardy and the granddaughter of Frank Hardy. Educated at Carey Baptist Grammar School and Swinburne Senior Secondary College in Melbourne, Hardy worked as a co-host on Melbourne's 3RRR radio programme 'Best of the Brat' from 1996, a role she continued until 2007; she shifted to ABC radio's Triple J in 2008, before leaving radio work in 2009 in favour of focusing more on writing. She also worked as an actress from a relatively young age, appearing in such programs as The Henderson Kids (series two), The Late Show, R. F. D. S., A Country Practice, Neighbours, True Love and Chaos, Raw FM, Stingers, Thunderstone, and Short Cuts (for the last two programmes, she also contributed scripts).

Hardy's first television scripts were for the long-running television sit-com All Together Now (1991), created by Pino Amenta, Philip Dalkin, and John Powditch; during the mid-1990s, she also acted as script assistant on Jonathan M. Shiff Productions' Ocean Girl. She followed this with work on crime drama Blue Heelers (2000) and scripts for several children's speculative-fiction television programs, including Jonathan M. Shiff Productions' Thunderstone (1999) and Horace & Tina (2001) and Barron Entertainment's Wild Kat (2001) (co-created by Paul Barron and David Ogilvy).

With the exception of children's television dramas Short Cuts (2002) and The Sleepover Club (2003), her subsequent work has focused more on adult drama, including scripts for Something in the Air (2001); McLeod's Daughters (2001); Always Greener (2002); Neighbours (1996-2003); Last Man Standing (2005), for which she was also co-creator and producer; Marx and Venus (2007); Spirited (2010); Packed to the Rafters (2008-2012); and Laid (2011-2012), for which she was also co-creator and producer.

Her most recent scripts are for the forthcoming series Mr & Mrs Murder (2013).

Hardy has also written columns for The Age; an award-winning blog, You Will Hate Me (which won a Bloggie for Best Australia/New Zealand Blog in 2008); and articles for Frankie magazine. Her first long work, You'll Be Sorry When I'm Dead, was published by Allen & Unwin in 2011.

Kate Miller-Heidke celebrates Hardy in her song 'Supergirl' (Curiouser, 2008).

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Awards for Works

No Pay? No Way! 2020 single work drama

'Prices are out of control – and so is Antonia. Riled by the rising cost of living, she agitates a riot in the local supermarket with an army of unruly housewives, leaving the place gutted. What follows is a wild and unpredictable caper, as Antonia and her friend Margherita attempt to outsmart the police, hoodwink their husbands, and ‘liberate’ more loot. This is high-wire farce.

'No Pay? No Way! (sometimes known as Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!) was written by Italian father of farce and Nobel laureate Dario Fo in 1974 and its ever-resonant themes of rising corporate greed, wage stagnation and the thrills of sticking it to the man have seen it staged around the world ever since.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2021 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting
form y separately published work icon Seven Types of Ambiguity ( dir. Glendyn Ivin et. al. )agent Australia : Matchbox Pictures Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2017 10408355 2017 series - publisher film/TV thriller

'Seven-year-old Sam Marin is taken from his school. Much to the relief of his parents Anna and Joe, Sam is found unharmed hours later and the police arrest ex-school teacher, Simon Heywood. It’s not a matter of who took Sam, but a question of why.

'Told from the shifting perspectives of seven characters, this psychological mystery explores the complex emotional terrain of past and present relationships and the risks people will go to in the name of love.'

Source: ABC TV (http://about.abc.net.au/abc-in-2017/drama-lovers/). (Sighted: 04/11/2016)

2018 nominated Logie Awards Most Outstanding Single Drama or Mini Series
2017 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards Best Telefeature or Mini Series
form y separately published work icon Hoges Hoges : The Paul Hogan Story ( dir. Kevin Carlin ) 2016 Fremantle : FremantleMedia Australia Seven Network , 2016 9664165 2016 series - publisher film/TV

Hoges is a television series biopic of Australian actor and Crocodile Dundee star, Paul Hogan. It will air on the Seven network in late 2016.

2017 nominated AWGIE Awards Television Award Telemovie or Miniseries (less than 4 hours' duration) For part one.
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