Simon Dodd (born 7 June 1959) is an Australian

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and feature writer. He is the recipient of ten

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AWGIE Awards as part of the writing team behind such successful TV series as '' Good News Week'' and ''The Glass House''. His list of credits includes popular Australian comedy TV shows from the late 1980s until today. He also wrote for

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host

Andrew Denton Andrew Christopher Denton (born 4 May 1960) is an Australian television producer, comedian, Gold Logie-nominated television presenter and former radio host, and was the host of the ABC's weekly television interview program ''Enough Rope'' and ...

in 1999 and 2000. In 2014, he produced and directed his Absurdist comedy stage-play ''Plaything'' at the Factory Theatre for the Sydney Comedy Festival, garnering a number of positive reviews. Simon has worked with

Doug Mulray Douglas John Mulray (born 1 December 1951) is an Australian comedian, radio and television presenter. He grew up in the Sydney Northern Beaches suburb of Dee Why. Radio career Mulray began his career at 2AD in Armidale, after doing a broadcasti ...

Paul McDermott Paul Anthony Michael McDermott (born 13 May 1962) is an Australian entertainer, best known both for ''Good News Week'' and for his role as a member of the musical comedy group the Doug Anthony All Stars. He has frequently appeared at the Melb ...

, Wil Anderson and Amanda Keller. He is co-writer with

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of 26 episodes of the animated TV series '' The Flamin’ Thongs''. Simon is also the author of the novel ''Death By Muttonbird'' and the stage play ''Plaything''. He has also written features for the

Sydney Morning Herald ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper i ...

and HQ Magazine, as well as a number of travel pieces for lifestyle magazines. Simon lives in

Waverton, New South Wales Waverton is a suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Waverton is 4 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of North Sydney Council. History Waverton was named ...

with his wife, magazine editor Margaret Megard, and their Burmese Blue cat, Mymble.

References

External links

Simon Dodd Official Site
* Australian comedy writers 1959 births Living people {{Australia-writer-stub