13 Facts About Posie Graeme-Evans

Posie Graeme-Evans was born on 1952 and is an Australian novelist, television and film producer, editor, screenwriter and director.

Posie Graeme-Evans is best known as the creator and showrunner of McLeod's Daughters, the co-creator and co-producer of Hi-5, producing and creating Mirror, Mirror, and was Director of Drama for the Nine Network from 2002 to 2005.

Posie Graeme-Evans was educated at many schools including The Fahan School in Hobart, Tasmania, and the Wilderness School in Adelaide, South Australia.

Posie Graeme-Evans married her first husband, Tim Jacobs, in 1971 and had her first daughter in 1972 while studying at Flinders University.

Fellow attendees included Kris Noble, later Director of Drama, Nine Network and EP of Big Brother; Graham Thorburn, formerly Head of Film and Television, Australian Film, Television and Radio School; Helena Harris, who, with Posie Graeme-Evans, later co-created Hi-5 and Ric Pellizari, long-time producer of Blue Heelers in its glory days and later, EP of Neighbours.

In 1983, Posie Graeme-Evans moved to Sydney to direct episodes of ABC-TV music drama series Sweet and Sour produced by Jan Chapman.

Posie Graeme-Evans later went on to produce serial drama Sons and Daughters for the Grundy Organisation, and the multi award winner, Rafferty's Rules for the Seven Network.

Posie Graeme-Evans married her second husband Andrew Blaxland in 1990, the same year they co-founded their production company Millennium Pictures.

Posie Graeme-Evans then went on to co-create and co-produce the many times Logie winning and Daytime Emmy nominated Hi-5, seen now in more than 80 countries worldwide.

Posie Graeme-Evans was creator and producer of the high-rating, much loved and many times awarded Australian drama series McLeod's Daughters.

Posie Graeme-Evans produced the 1996 pilot TV movie of the same name starring Jack Thompson as Jack McLeod.

In December 2002, Posie Graeme-Evans became Director of Drama for the Nine Network.

Posie Graeme-Evans is a board member of Screen Tasmania, the Tasmanian state governments funding body for film and television.