Lauren & Meegan
Co-writers, co-creators, co-wives.
Collaborating since 2017, in love since 2018 - together Lauren & Meegan have written the award-winning comedy short THE GINGER CONSPIRACY and a short work for Theatre Works as part of the Green Room Award winning SHE IS VIGILANTE. Their first full length play, THE COUNTDOWN, was developed as part of a residency with Theatre Works.
Their creation STARSHIP Q STAR was shortlisted for the AWG / Audible Podcast writing competition and receiving funding from Creative Victoria and the City of Melbourne, and they were both recently chosen to take part in Co-Curious’s STORIES FROM ANOTHER AUSTRALIA initiative.
As showrunners for STARSHIP, Lauren and Meegan have overseen the entire process from idea development to production and post.
Lauren Anderson
(she/her)
Lauren Anderson is a writer and producer who works across scripted and unscripted television, the stage and audio.
She holds both a Master of Film and Television (Narrative Directing) and a Master of Screenwriting from the Victorian College of the Arts. Her short films have screened around the world and won numerous awards including Best short film at MQFF and a nomination for the Iris Prize. Her comedy TV pilot WEBOCRACY won the 2016 AWG New Writers’ Script Competition, while her drama screenplay FUR was a quarter finalist in the 2017 BlueCat Screenplay Competition. Lauren has regularly worked in the writers' rooms of Guesswork Television since 2017 and in 2018 undertook a Film Victoria funded writers’ placement with EndemolShine Banks.
Lauren has written kid’s animated comedy KITTY IS NOT A CAT (season 2 and 3) and is regularly on an island creating twists as a creative producer on the AACTA and Logie award winning AUSTRALIAN SURVIVOR.
Meegan May
(she/her)
As a queer, neurodiverse artist living with chronic illness, Meegan is passionate about creating diverse characters in her work. She loves sci-fi, straddling the line between comedy and drama, and writing across different forms.
Her TV project VIEWERS, written during her MFA in screenwriting, was shortlisted in the Australian Writers’ Guild’s John Hinde Award and Final Draft’s Big Break Competition among others. Her recent scifi pilot WATCHME has found similar success in these contests in 2022.
A decorated ex-soldier and veteran of the Afghanistan conflict, Meegan spent nearly five years working in military intelligence. Her Army background inspired the drama script THE ANALYST which won the 2019 AWG’s Pathways McCraith House Writer’s Residency. The same year Meegan received support from VicScreen and SBS to develop the short-form series SEEKER.
Meegan has also worked extensively in development, including as Assistant Scripted Development Producer at Seven Studios, and as a writer’s assistant in over 30 writer’s rooms, including Amazon Prime’s DEADLOCH and Disney’s THE ARTFUL DODGER. She’s also worked as script coordinator on the SBS mini-series SAFE HOME and Stan’s ROMPER STOMPER.
She now works regularly as a writer in TV writer’s rooms, and is the creator and writer of the new Quinn Original audio series COMPROMISED, starring Victoria Pedretti (The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, YOU).