GavinStrawhan
- Writer
Award-winning scribe Gavin Strawhan is one of the most experienced screenwriters working in New Zealand television. His extended resume includes writing for, and helping create TV shows Nothing Trivial, Filthy Rich, Jackson's Wharf, Mercy Peak, Burying Brian, kidult hit Being Eve, Kaitangata Twitch and futuristic thriller This is Not My Life. He also co-wrote 2010 feature film Matariki.
Biography
Scriptwriter Gavin Strawhan seems to have worked on every New Zealand show with two words in its title — from five seasons of Go Girls to Filthy Rich, Jackson's Wharf, Mercy Peak, Nothing Trivial, and Kaitangata Twitch. He also penned scripts for (and co-produced) two What Really Happened dramas, which recreated events leading up to the Treaty of Waitangi, and the introduction of voting for women. In 2013 Strawhan won Best One-Off Television Drama from the NZ Writers Guild for the latter script, the same year he was nominated for an episode of Go Girls.
Screenography
Awards
2021 New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Script - Drama: for Black Hands
2013 New York Television Awards
Nominated for Best Script: for Nothing Trivial
“Write a lot. Don’t sit on one idea and think it’s brilliant. It probably isn’t. Love your characters for all their flaws. Write a lot.”