StevenO'Meagher
- Producer
Producer Steven O'Meagher is the founder of Auckland production company Desert Road, whose work includes acclaimed TV police drama Harry and Emmy-nominated docudrama The Golden Hour. O'Meagher developed Bill O'Brien's Aramoana massacre account 22 Hours of Terror into acclaimed feature Out of the Blue. The film went on to box office success and multiple Qantas awards.
Screenography
Biography
Steven O'Meagher heads Auckland-based production company Desert Road, which he founded in 2005.
O'Meagher began his career as a journalist. After an extended term as a features writer with North & South magazine, he joined the staff of production company Communicado. His first producing job was on the second season of archival identity show The Way We Were, where he made generous use of the improvisational abilities of host Paul Holmes.
Awards
2020 New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Sports Programme (with John Pearson): The Story of Rugby
2014 Rialto Channel NZ Film Awards (The Moas)
Best Television Feature: Consent - The Louise Nicholas Story
“I was immediately drawn to the potential of the story as a film, because it touched on so many human emotions: despair, hope, light and darkness. ”