Dianne Taylor

Dianne has worked as a writer from the age of eighteen, first as an advertising copywriter in New Zealand and London, then as Creative Director of the advertising agency, Blue Moon, which she co-owned.

During the 1990s, Dianne studied for a BA in Film and English studies at Auckland University. She was awarded the Auckland University Senior Prize for English in 1999 and graduated in 2000.

Since then she has gradually transitioned from being a fulltime copywriter and moonlighting screenwriter, to become a full-time screenwriter who occasionally moonlights as a copywriter.

In 2008  the feature film, Apron Strings, (dir Sima Urale) which Dianne co-wrote with  Shuchi Kothari, was selected to open the 2008 International Film festival in Auckland and went on to screen at many festivals around the world, including Toronto, Cannes, Melbourne, Taipei, Dubai and the Indian Film Festival in Goa.

Dianne has taught undergraduate screenwriting at the University of Auckland and advertising creativity at Auckland University of Technology.

Most recently, Dianne has focused on writing and developing a range of feature film scripts which have received development funding from the NZFC and are in various stages of development.

Dianne is Vice President of The New Zealand Writer’s Guild.