Sarah Lambert

Writer, showrunner and producer Sarah Lambert has created some of Australia’s most critically acclaimed, iconic and audience-pleasing drama series in recent years. She created, wrote and produced the smash-hit Australian drama Love Child, which was the number one drama in Australia in 2014 and went on to enjoy four seasons. This was followed by the award- winning television adaptation of Marele Day’s Lambs of God, for which Sarah was the writer and showrunner. The mini-series stared Ann Dowd, Jessica Barden and Essie Davis. Lambs of God was in official competition at Series Mania in 2019 and was nominated for eighteen AACTA Awards, winning nine including Best Telefeature or Mini Series. It also won the ATOM Award for Best Fiction Telemovie or Miniseries and the Screen Producers Award for Mini Series Production of the Year and was nominated for an AWGIE award for Best Television or Miniseries in 2020. Lambs of God has sold to over fifty-four countries around the world. Sarah also co-created the 65-part teen show Aliens Among Us for the ABC and C5 in the UK, writing and directing over thirty episodes, shooting in the US, UK, France and Australia.

Currently Sarah is writer and showrunner on the highly anticipated television adaptation of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland, for Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories and Amazon. She is also writer and executive producer of the adaptation of Martin Zusak’s novel The Messenger for Lingo Pictures and the ABC. The eight-part series is currently shooting in NSW. Sarah is working on her highly confidential series, developed with Blumhouse Productions in the US and Joel Edgerton. Her next original series, a genre-bending female revenge series is in development with Simon Maxwell’s Motive Productions in the UK.

Sarah has written on some of Australia’s top drama series including the critically-acclaimed and award-winning Love My Way; Dance Academy, for which she was nominated for an AWGIE for Best Children’s Screenplay; The Alice, which garnered her a QLD Premier’s Literary Award Nomination; A Place to Call Home; and ABC’s ratings winner The Doctor Blake Mysteries.

Prior to her work as a writer/ creator in Australia, she worked in New York as a partner in the film production company Babelfish where she wrote and directed the documentary Clone Story on the cult group the Raelians; wrote and co-directed the documentary God In Government (PBS) about the religious right’s influence on US politics; produced the documentary 14 Million Dreams (Sundance); and Last Chance for Peace – a documentary about the civil war in Sierra Leone and the unusual path to peace forged between an alliance of Muslim and Christian religious leaders. She co-directed, wrote and produced three arts programs for PBS’s City Arts series -- New Type Of Jazz; on the great record producer Teo Macero’s work with some of the most iconic musicians of our time from Miles Davis to Simon and Garfunkel to modern hip hop artists, Directors On Directing on the most iconic Broadway directors working today and The Play’s The Thing which featured playwrights from Edward Albee to John Patrick Shanley on bringing stories to life and the magic of theatre for which she was recognised with an Emmy nomination.