Speaker Details

Full Name
Jane Allen
Company
Troppo
Title
Script Producer
Country (Address)
Australia
Biography
Jane produced and was lead writer for the ABC legal drama, Janet King – the first Australian prime time drama to have a lesbian lead character. She produced and led the writing team on Crownies, the prosecution drama from which Janet King was a spinoff. She was also writer and producer of the ABC’s Indigenous sci fi series Cleverman.

Her recent work includes; writing and script producing Troppo for the ABC and IMDB; writing AACTA nominated drama Halifax: Retribution for Nine Network, The Heights Season Two for ABC, Netflix’s The New Legends of Monkey, and The Unlisted which won the 2020 Prix Jeunesse International award for Outstanding Children’s Television.

Jane was the 2018/19 Australian Antarctic Division artistic fellow, and spent three months living as a summer expeditioner at Mawson Research Station where she developed a TV series about living and working in Antarctica, and wrote an Antarctica-based two hundred page chapter book for kids.