Erica Harrison

Writer

Bio

Erica Harrison is a multi AWGIE nominated screenwriter, script producer and story development professional. In 2025, she was named one of IF Magazine’s Rising Writing Talents and received a nomination for Best Comedy Script at the AWGIE Awards for her work on the ABC/CBS comedy series Gold Diggers. Most recently, she has written episodes for Austin, Series 3 (ABC/ITV) and Caper Crew (ABC).

Erica is the co-creator and writer of the queer drama series Triple Oh!, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival Market in 2023 and is now screening on SBS. In 2025, she script edited the Stan original feature Windcatcher for the Australian Children’s Television Foundation and Every Cloud Productions.

Her credits also include writing and script editing on the comedy series Fam Time for Seven Studios, co-writing the short film Jarli, starring Madeleine Madden, Mark Coles Smith and Wayne Blair, as well as writing across three seasons of the Emmy-winning Beat Bugs and two seasons of Motown Magic (Netflix).

Script and story development and LGBTQI+ stories are key interests for Erica, who is passionate about developing daring and distinctive stories from diverse voices. As Head of Development at Aquarius Films, she worked on projects including Love Me (the Australian adaptation of the Swedish series, Alska mig) for Warner Bros International/Binge and crime thriller, Savage River, starring Katherine Langford. Erica was also the Scripted Development Manager at Fremantle and has worked in writers rooms for drama and comedy series at some of Australia’s most celebrated production companies, including Easy Tiger, Flying Bark, Jungle Entertainment, Cheeky Little, CJZ and Northern Pictures.

Erica also wrote the AACTA award winning short film, A Cautionary Tail, starring Cate Blanchett and David Wenham and the picture book published by Penguin. The film won the Academy accredited Jury Prize for its category at The Austin Film Festival.

A former journalist and editor, Erica as covered local and international stories for publications including The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Geographic, ProPhoto Magazine, Cosmos and New Internationalist

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