Stephen J Campbell

Stephen is an award winning, television producer, writer and director with a strong focus on family and young adult audiences. With over 30 years experience in the business, he has worked in a wide variety of television genres, specializing in comedy and drama. After being recruited by Television New Zealand's Children and Young Person's department in 1986, Stephen was responsible for the creation of one of the countries most iconic children's TV characters Thingee, and went on to produce the ground-breaking, interactive youth programme, 3.45 Live (1989). Stephen quickly began to build a reputation for himself as a comedy writer and director after cutting his teeth on local comedy shows including the award winning Ice TV (1995) (1999 TV Guide New Zealand Awards - Best Comedy Programme) As co-creator and associate producer of Ice TV, Stephen was responsible for writing and directing many of the show's memorable comedy strands including the arrestingly popular 'Police Programme', in w