A writer, director, and producer for more than thirty years, Posie is one of Australia’s preeminent television creator/producers. Variety magazine named her one of “100 Significant Women in Film and Television” in December 2002 for her body of work, the same month and year her first novel, The Innocent, was published and the Screen Producers Association of Australia awarded her the inaugural honor of being Australian Independent Producer of the Year. Posie used to say (famously, in Australia) that she wrote her first four books on Sundays, while she produced eight seasons of her self-created, much awarded and long-running hit television drama series McLeod’s Daughters (among a number of other projects) during the rest of the week. Commencing in 1999, another of her major television credits was as cocreator (and coproducer for the first two seasons) of Hi-5, which was nominated for three Daytime Emmys. Posie sold out her interest in 2008, which enabled her to write full-time; Hi-5 is still running after fourteen seasons. Also in 2002, Posie became Director of Dramafor the Nine Network Australia, and held that position until she resigned in late 2005 to take up a new writing contract with her publisher, Simon & Schuster, and to continue producing McLeod’s.
Posie is the lyricist on three bestselling albums of “Songs from the Series” of McLeod’s Daughters and the author of five novels. The Innocent, The Exiled, and The Uncrowned Queen, the Anne trilogy, set during the period of England’s Wars of the Roses, were published internationally to great success between 2002 and 2006. In 2010, The Dressmaker, set in Victorian England, was again published internationally to considerable success and acclaim, and in 2012 The Island House will follow.
A long-standing board member of the Australian Film Television and Radio School, Posie is also a board member of Screen Tasmania. And she is delighted to say that she is a proud member of the Huonville Arts and Heritage committee in Southern Tasmania.
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