Sam Meikle is a highly experienced writer and creator with hundred of hours of produced credits across a broad range of television dramas, comedies, animation, and web series. He has worked extensively in development for many of Australia’s leading production houses, and written and interviewed for documentary works.
His short films have screened at festivals around the world, and he’s been engaged to develop multiple feature film projects. Sam holds a Masters in screenwriting from the AFTRS (2000), he’s a graduate of the NIDA Playwrights’ Studio (2000), a recipient of a 2009 Australian Writers’ Guild/Arts NSW Mentorship and the 2014 Inscription Enderby Entertainment Scholarship. He was a member of the Screen Australia Talent USA delegation in 2018, the Scripted Ink/AWG Pathways Los Angeles delegation in 2019, and he's been nominated for 3 AACTA Awards and 12 Australian Writers’ Guild Awards, winning 4.
Most recently, Sam was a writer, Executive Producer and co-showrunner of Wakefield for the ABC, BBC Studios and Showtime, co-creator, head writer, and Executive Producer of MaveriX for the ABC and Netflix, and in 2023 he was selected for The Creators, the inaugural Screen Australia / Australian Writers’ Guild showrunning program