Ken Duncum

The Michael Hirschfeld Director of Scriptwriting, Ken was a member of Victoria's precociously talented 1984 Original Composition Workshop (fellow writers included novelist Elizabeth Knox and poet Jenny Bornholdt).

He has had a dozen plays produced including Blue Sky Boys (Best New Zealand Play 1990), Flipside (Chapman Tripp Award for Production of the Year 2000), Trick of the Light (2002) and Cherish (2003), both of which won Best NZ Play at consecutive Chapman Tripp Awards. A number of his plays have been published by Victoria University Press and Cherish has been performed in New York and Canada.

He has also written extensively for television, including Duggan and Coverstory (Best Script, TV Drama, Film and TV Awards 1997). His industry experience is wide-ranging: he was script editor for Greenstone, script adviser for Tiger Country, storyliner and writer for Mirror Mirror, and was the head writer for Willy Nilly.