About

Magda Wozniak is an award-winning screenwriter from Perth, based in Melbourne. Her work has screened at festivals across the UK, Europe, the United States and Australia. Her most recent episodic writing credits include the acclaimed miniseries Bad Behaviour (Stan/NBCU), the Markus Zusak adaptation The Messenger (ABC), queer revisionist comedy-drama While the Men are Away (SBS) and the international success RFDS (Ch7). Bad Behaviour and While the Men are Away were both selected for Berlinale Series in 2023 and 2024 respectively.

Experienced across both half-hour and one-hour formats, Magda’s writing traverses a diverse range of themes and genres – her other credits include Crazy Fun Park (ABC), Surviving Summer (Netflix), The PM's Daughter (ABC), The Heights (ABC), Home & Away (Ch7), Neighbours (Ch10) and popular kids’ animation Strange Chores (ABC). She was one of the core writers on the beloved AACTA-Nominated series Mustangs F.C. (ABC), writing seven episodes across the series including the series finale.

Magda is a three-time winner of the Australian Writers' Guild Award for Best Children's Screenplay, and was nominated for Best Short Film for her university short film Stuffed. This short was awarded the WA Screen Award for Best Screenplay and the ATOM award for Best Tertiary Film, and went on to screen at festivals internationally. Magda will also never forget where it all began: with her first short film Tape (about a haunted VHS), which won her the coveted Mt Lawley Senior High School Echidna Award for Best Director (Year 12 Media Studies) in 2003.  

Magda holds a BA(Communication Studies) Hons (1A) from the University of Western Australia and a Masters of Professional Communications from the WA Screen Academy. She is currently in development on several new series as lead writer/creator, and continues to work as a writer and script editor. In her free time, she “dabbles” in watercolour with mixed results.

For chats & friendship, contact Magda directly:  magda.woz@gmail.com

For work enquiries & bookings, contact Candice Thom at RGM: candice@rgm.com.au

Headshot by Natalija Brunovs