Sarah Lambert

Award-winning writer and producer Sarah Lambert works extensively in both film and television in Australia, the US and UK. She is the writer and showrunner of the television adaptation of the Marele Day novel Lambs of God for Lingo Pictures and Foxtel. The mini-series stars Ann Dowd, Jessica Barden and Essie Davis and will screen in 2019. Sarah was the creator, writer and producer of Love Child, the smash-hit Australian drama which was the number one drama in Australia in 2014 and which enjoyed four seasons. Set in Sydney in 1969 at the height of the sexual revolution, the series followed a group of young women whose lives intersect at Kings Cross hospital and Stanton House, a home for unwed mothers. "Lambert has beguilingly combined a detailed and often critical analysis of an Australia emerging slowly from the torpor and social repressiveness of the late 50's with a plot abundantly full of surprise and suspense" - The Australian. Sarah has written on some of Australia's top drama series including the critically-acclaimed and award-winning Love My Way; two seasons of the Emmy-nominated series Dance Academy, for which she was nominated for an AWGIE for Best Children's Screenplay; The Alice, which garnered her a QLD Premier's Literary Award Nomination; A Place to Call Home and ABC's ratings winner The Doctor Blake Mysteries. In the US, she has written, directed and produced over 10 hours of TV drama and documentaries and children's television including Clone Story for M6 (France); God In Government (for PBS/awarded the Cine Gold Eagle); 14 Million Dreams (Sundance); New Type Of Jazz; Directors On Directing; and The Play's The Thing for PBS for which she was recognised with an Emmy nomination. She went on to co-create the sixty-five part tween show Aliens Among Us for the ABC and C5 in the UK, writing and directing over thirty episodes.