John Lonie

Writer | Script Editor

John Lonie is a screenwriter, playwright, script editor and book author.

John co-wrote the feature film Kokoda, directed by Alister Grierson. John wrote the television program Frankie's House, three episodes of the AFI Award winning mini-series The Paper Man and he script doctored the AFI award winning mini-series True Believers.  Other screenwriting credits include A Country Practice, Rescue, Willesee's Australians and GP.  John is regularly engaged as a script editor for features and his script editing credits include Japanese Story, Beneath Clouds, Dogwatch and No Man's Land. John has had five plays professional produced by companies such as State Theatre Company of South Australia, NIDA and St. Martin's Theatre. John's prose work includes his three novellas Act of Love (Blackwattle Press) and other short stories published in various anthologies.

John was Co-Head of Scriptwriting at the Australian Film Television and Radio School from 2000 to 2008.  John's current feature script Tiger Tiger has been funded by Screen Queensland. John recently wrote two episodes for the Seven Productions show A Place To Call Home for Foxtel.

John’s novel The Woman From Saint-Germain was published by Simon & Schuster in early 2019, and has so far sold over 20,000 copies. His next novel will be published by Harper Collins Australia in 2025/26.

For enquiries regarding John Lonie please contact us via email or on 02 9319 7199.