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KimHarrop

  • Writer
  • Producer
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Kim Harrop describes writing scripts as "the most exhilarating, challenging, enlightening, masochistic, addictive thing in the world." Harrop spent eight years writing for long-running soap Shortland Street. She has developed several programmes (First Crossings, The New Zealand Home), written and produced internet hit The Coffin Club (2017)and co-created black comedy series Fresh Eggs (2019) with Nick Ward. 

Biography

Writing has been a lifelong passion for Aucklander Kim Harrop. As a child she wrote plays, and enlisted kids in the neighbourhood to help act out her creations. 

In her 20s, Harrop's love of putting pen to paper morphed into a job writing radio adverts. She also worked with a group of upcoming comedians, writing award-winning syndicated radio shows like Starship Cortina and News in Briefs

Screenography

The Gender Agenda
2024 - 2025 Series Producer Series
The Poo Files
2022 - 2023 Executive Producer, Producer, Creator, Writer Television
Fresh Eggs
2019 Producer, Creator, Writer Television
2017 Producer, Writer Web
The New Zealand Home
2016 Development Producer Series

Awards

2019 Huawei Mate30 Pro New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Comedy/Comedy Entertainment Programme (with Nick Ward, Britta Hawkins and Philippa Rennie): for Fresh Eggs

“One really fun scene was where a really crappy Renault Fuego I owned was blown up for one of the Christmas cliffhangers. That was ace!”

Kim Harrop on a Shortland Street scene she helped write