David Hannam

Creator Context

Summary

Australian television writer and former journalist whose credits include Dance Academy, Wentworth, Nowhere Boys, A Place to Call Home, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Secret Bridesmaids’ Business, More Than This, Paper Dolls and the biopic Carlotta. Hannam has repeatedly worked on programs featuring queer characters and contributed to the public representation of LGBTQ experiences, most notably through Carlotta, about the transgender entertainer and activist. In published discussion of Australian television, he has spoken about growing up without seeing people like himself represented except as criminals or victims, and about wanting to contribute stories he felt queer audiences needed. The record supports a sustained representation-focused creative pattern, though not a dominant activist or partisan public persona.