Skip to main content

AmandaAlison

  • Writer
Amanda-Allison-Profile.jpg

A self-described television nerd, Amanda Alison began her screen career writing and editing trailers for TV shows, "so I could get paid to watch TV". Later she used her comic wit to write and direct for 90s youth show Ice TV. She went on to create NZ TV Award-nominated comedies Mean Mums and Lucy Lewis Can't Lose, and write for a wide range of genres — from panel show 7 Days and horror comedy Wellington Paranormal, to kids series The Moe Show. Alison created Mean Mums by drawing on her own experience of "crazy" parent dynamics at primary schools. Her pilot for the series won Three's Comedy Pilot Week in 2018.

Screenography

2019 Creator, Writer, Storyliner Television
The Exceptional Squad
2019 Writer Series
Darwin and Newts
2018 - 2021 Writer Series
2018 - 2021 Creator , Writer Series
2018 - 2022 Writer, Storyliner Series

Awards

2020 New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Script - Comedy: for Mean Mums, season 1, episode 7

“I think the funniest things are the things that are true that people can relate to.”

Amanda Alison, on creating primary school-set TV comedy Mean Mums, TV Guide, 4 July 2019