RachelLang
- Writer
Writer Rachel Lang, MNZM, has played a major hand in a host of New Zealand television dramas, including Outrageous Fortune, the iconic saga of a West Auckland family trying to go straight. Her CV also includes the long-running Go Girls, small town dramas Jackson's Wharf and Mercy Peak, plus Westside, The Almighty Johnsons, This is Not My Life, Filthy Rich and The Blue Rose.
Screenography
Biography
For Rachel Lang, creating characters that audiences can connect with means having "a genuine love for flaws, joys, despairs and foibles. Mostly you have to love your characters and never judge them ... if you sympathise with and understand your characters, then the audience can sympathise too."
Awards
2017 Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM)
For services to television
2012 Monte Carlo TV Festival
Nominated for Outstanding International Producer - Drama Series (with Chris Bailey and Gavin Strawhan): for Nothing Trivial
“I thought the next time I do something I’m going to make it so that no one will be able to ignore it. I wanted big things to happen.”
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