Marieke Hardy
Marieke Hardy is a screenwriter, playwright, producer, and curator. Her podcast, Marieke Hardy Is Going To Die, was launched in February 2024.
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Marieke Hardy
Marieke Hardy is a screenwriter, producer, curator, radio host, podcaster and playwright. In 2011, she won an Australian Writers’ Guild Award for Best Comedy for Laid, which she co-created, wrote, and produced. The show ran for two seasons and was awarded the AACTA Award for Best Television Series in 2012, and it has recently been ordered to series at Peacock in the US starring Stephanie Hsu and Zosia Mamet. She has written for numerous other Australian TV series, including Packed to the Rafters, Heartbreak High, Please Like Me, Seven Types of Ambiguity, and Sunny Nights.
Outside of the television space, Marieke was a regular co-host on ABC’s ’The Book Club’ for eleven years and Artistic Director of Melbourne Writers Festival from 2017 to 2019. She was the recipient of the prestigious Sidney Myer Fellowship in 2015. Her debut as a playwright – an adaptation of Dario Fo’s “No Pay No Way!” – opened at the Sydney Opera House in 2019, and had a smash season in 2022 at Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester UK, before being remounted in Sydney in April 2024. Her podcast, Marieke Hardy Is Going To Die debuted in February 2024.