Paula Boock's Credits


TV Awards
Finalist, 2006 NZ Screen Awards, Best Drama Script (The Insiders Guide to Love)
Finalist, 2006 Qantas Television Awards, Best Script (The Insiders Guide to Love)
Finalist, 2005 NZ Screen Awards, Best Drama Script (The Insiders Guide to Happiness)
Winner (with Kathryn Burnett), 2003 AFTA Best Drama Script (The Strip)

Book Awards
Best First Book, AIM Children's Book Awards 1992 (Out Walked Mel)
Finalist, NZ Library Association Esther Glen Medal, 1992 (Out Walked Mel)
NZ Library Association Esther Glen Medal, 1994 (Sasscat to Win)
Finalist, AIM Children's Book Awards 1996 (Home Run)
NZ Post Children's Book of the Year 1998 (Dare Truth or Promise)
Finalist, U.S.A. Lambda Award 2000 (Dare Truth or Promise)


Some of Paula Boock's credits are listed below:


Television broadcast

Until Proven Innocent (forthcoming 2009)
86min Sunday Drama feature
Lippy Pictures/TVNZ
Co-writer and producer with Donna Malane

Time Trackers (forthcoming 2009)
13 x 30min children's time-travel series
Gibson/TV2 (NZ) TaylorMedia/Channel 7 (Australia)
Co-creator, producer, writer several episodes

The Simon Eliot Show - Series 2 (2008)
13 x 30min children’s animated quiz show
Gibson Group/TV3
Writer, 5 episodes

Burying Brian (2008)
6 x 1hr 8.30 drama
Eyeworks Touchdown/TVNZ
script development and story editor

bro'Town (2006-7)
animated half-hour 7.30pm comedy series
Firehorse/TV3
script consultant series 3 and 4

The Insiders Guide to Love (2005)
6 x 1hr 10.30pm drama
Gibson Group/TVNZ
inhouse writer, several episodes

The Insiders Guide to Happiness (2004)
13 x 1hr 10.30pm drama
Gibson Group/TVNZ
inhouse writer, several episodes

The Strip - Series 2 (2003)
20 x 1hr 9.30pm drama
Gibson Group/TV3
inhouse writer, several episodes

The Strip - Series 1 (2002)
20 x 1hr 9.30pm drama
Gibson Group/TV3
inhouse writer, several episodes

Coverstory (1995)
13 x 1hr 9.30pm drama
Gibson Group/TV3
Writer, Episode 11

Published works
Young Adult Novels:
Out Walked Mel (McIndoe 1991, Hyland House Australia)
Sasscat to Win (McIndoe 1993, Hyland House Australia)
Home Run (Longacre 1995, Hyland House Australia)
Dare Truth or Promise (Longacre 1997, Hyland House Australia, The Women's Press U.K., Houghton & Mifflin U.S.A.)
Power and Chaos (Random House, 2000)

Stories in the following anthologies:
Nearly Seventeen ed. Tessa Duder (Penguin 1993)
Falling in Love ed. Tessa Duder (Penguin 1995)
New Zealand Love Stories ed. Fiona Kidman (Oxford 1999)
It Looks Better on You, NZ Women Writers on their Friendships ed. Jane Westaway & Tessa Copland (Longacre 2003)

Montana Essay Series (book):
On Make-up and Makeover (Four Winds Press 2003)