Boyd Quakawoot is a South Sea Islander writer, and a man of Indigenous descent who identifies with the Yawibara people from Mackay in North Queensland. Most recently, Boyd wrote on Stan’s murder-mystery BLACK SNOW, which received several nominations at the 2024 AACTA Awards, including one for Best Drama Series, and on the second series of ABC’s TROPPO.

For his first feature, WINDCATCHER, Boyd was nominated for best original film at the 2025 AWGIES. The film marked Stan’s first co-commission with the Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF) since their partnership in 2021 and was also backed by Screen Australia. WINDCATCHER won Best Feature Film (for audiences 12 Years Old and under) at the Children Cinema Awards, and was nominated for Best Children’s Live-Action at the BANFF World Media Festival Rockie Awards in Canada.

Boyd’s short film screenplay DAWG AND THE STONEFISH was shortlisted for the 2020 Monte Miller Award. In 2019-2020, Boyd wrote on season four of the ABC sketch comedy show BLACK COMEDY, which was nominated for Best Comedy Series at the AACTA awards, writing on each of the six episodes of the final season.

Before becoming a fulltime screenwriter, Boyd worked for years as a social worker with at risk youth suffering from drug and alcohol dependency. On the IF Rising Talent List for 2024, Boyd was named as one of the writers who would ‘shift and lead our industry into the future’. He has been shortlisted twice for the David Unaipon Award at the Queensland Literary Awards, which recognises Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander writers who produce outstanding unpublished manuscripts, and was twice highly commended for the Black & Write Fellowship with the Queensland State Library. Further, Boyd has poetry published in the Australian Poetry Journal.

Boyd currently has several features in development, including a horror titled UNCLE, which tackles addiction. He also has a comedy series in early development, AUNTY PHIL & UNCLE DOROTHEA, which is based on his own eccentric extended family. Boyd also joins four other First Nations writers for the development of an animated children’s series YELLOW WATER BILLABONG, who were selected by Screenworks and Taramind Tree Pictures to develop the project.

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