Rachel Lang

Rachel Alison Mary Lang is a New Zealand television screenwriter, executive producer and actor. She co-created the television series Outrageous Fortune, Go Girls, This Is Not My Life, Mercy Peak, Nothing Trivial, The Blue Rose, and Filthy Rich. She was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to television, in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours.

Career Lang graduated from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School in 1982 with a Diploma in Acting. Lang's first work in script writing was as a script editor at TVNZ in the 1980s. She worked on episodes of Shark in the Park, Open House and movie Mark II.

From 1992 until 2000 she worked on Shortland Street, starting as a story liner then moving on to roles as story editor and executive producer. She was the first New Zealander employed as story editor on the show, with previous story editors employed from Australia.

In 1999 she created Jackson's Wharf, one of her first collaborations with Gavin Strawhan. They would go on to work together on Mercy Peak and Maddigan's Quest.

Filmography Film Title Year Credited as Notes Writer 13 Suspects 2018 Short film

Television Title Year Credited as Network Notes Creator Writer Executiveproducer Open House 1986–87 Television One Story editor Gloss 1987 Network Two Script editor Shark in the Park 1989–91 Television One Story editorScript editor Shortland Street 1992 Channel 2 Storyliner City Life 1998 (1) TV2 Lawless 1999 TV2 Television filmScript editor Jackson's Wharf 1999–2001 (8) TV2 Executive producer Lawless: Dead Evidence 2000 TV2 Television film Lawless: Beyond Justice 2001 TV2 Television filmScript editor Mercy Peak 2001–04 (8) TV One Outrageous Fortune 2005–10 (35) TV3Script editor Maddigan's Quest 2006 (8) TV3 Script editor Honest 2008 ITV Go Girls 2009–13 (22) TV2 This Is Not My Life 2010 (4) TV One The Almighty Johnsons 2011–12 (2) TV3 Executive producer Nothing Trivial 2011–14 (20) TV One The Blue Rose 2013 (7) TV3 Step Dave 2014 (3) TV2 When We Go to War 2015 (4) TV One Westside 2015–20 (4) Three Filthy Rich 2016–17 (16) TVNZ 2 Hyde & Seek 2016 (5) Nine Network Dirty Laundry 2017 TVNZ 1 Bad Mothers 2019 (5) Nine Network

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