Maxine Fleming

Maxine Fleming is a New Zealand television screenwriter and producer. She was recognised at the Women in Film and Television New Zealand Awards in 2018.

Biography Fleming grew up in Thames, and studied journalism at Auckland University of Technology. After graduating, she worked in newsrooms in New Zealand and Australia, and worked at news agency Australian Associated Press. She also wrote and performed for theatre groups and eventually stopped working in journalism to work in theatre.

In 1992 Fleming got her first scriptwriting position, on the newly launched television soap opera Shortland Street. She has also written for TV series Outrageous Fortune, City Life, Mercy Peak, and The Chosen. She was head writer on the series Interrogation. In 2016 she co-created series 800 Words, which was nominated in three categories of the Logie Awards of 2016.

In 2016, Fleming was appointed producer of Shortland Street.

Awards and recognition

Images & Sound Award for Success in Television and Digital at 2018 Women in Film and Television New Zealand Awards Best TV Comedy Episode (shared with Vanessa Alexander) at 2013 Scriptwriters Association of New Zealand Awards