Jess Sayer

Jess Sayer (born 12th August 1990 (Age 35 as of August 2025.) In 2015, she won the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award, and in 2020, she won the Adam NZ Play Award.

Biography Sayer attended Kamo High School in Whangārei, New Zealand. She later became interested in theatre and moved into studying drama at The Actors' Program, graduating in 2012.

Sayer has appeared in the television soap opera Shortland Street as nurse Maeve Mullins, Filthy Rich, Dirty Laundry and the drama Runaway Millionaires. In 2016, she both wrote and acted in the web-only series Auckward Love, for TVNZ. In 2019, she appeared in the play Mr Red Light at Auckland's Aotea Centre.

As a playwright, Sayer has won the Playmarket B4 25 competition three times and has been shortlisted for the Adam NZ Play Award twice. In 2015, aged 25, she won the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award. In 2020, she won the Adam NZ Play Award.

In July 2021, Sayer's pug, Bruce, made its debut on Shortland Street.