Biography

Felicity Packard teaches in the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra, across a range of creative writing and reading related subjects including screenwriting, prose writing, literary studies, cultural theory and research methods. Her particular focus however, is on writing for the screen. 

Felicity works as a freelance screenwriter and script editor and was one of the writers behind both Underbelly series - Underbelly and Underbelly - A Tale of two Cities. Underbelly has received the 2008 Henry Lawson Literary Festival award for "Best TV Drama" and two Australian Writers Guild Awards (AWGIES) for Best TV mini series adaptation and the major Peer Recognition Award. Felicity also received the 2008 Queensland Premier's Literary Award (TV section) for one of her Underbelly episodes Wise Monkeys. Underbelly was also short-listed for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2009.

In 2003, Felicity wrote Win, Win; Lose, Lose, an episode of series #2 of MDA which was a finalist that year in the International Emmys. In 2006 another of her episodes of MDA, The Departure Lounge (from series #3) was a finalist in the Australian Writer's Guild Awards in the category Best TV series.

Her other TV credits include G.P., Home & Away, Sea Patrol and The Strip.

Felicity was for three years on the judging panel of the Canberra Short Film Festival (2004, 2005, 2006) and in 2007 was one the judges for the AWGIES in the "TV serials" section.

As well as her work in tv, Felicity is also a published writer of short fiction, art criticism and two successful seasons of theatre restaurant (with Garth Nix and Andrew Etheridge). In 2005 she co-wrote with Francesca Rendle-Short a one act play called Us for the Canberra Street Theatre's spring season. She has also frequently worked as a script editor for short films.

Felicity is currently working on the third series of Underbelly. 

Underbelly A Tale of Two Cities

http://channelnine.ninemsn.com.au/underbellyataleoftwocities/ 


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