Sarah Dollard
Born: 21st January 1980
Episodes Broadcast: 2015, 2017
Born in Sydney, Australia, Sarah Dollard became a great fan of
telefantasy series, including Doctor Who, during her youth.
Academically accomplished, she attended the University of Melbourne
where her studies included film and television. Dollard came to realise
that her passion lay with scriptwriting, and she completed a related
diploma at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. In 2005, she
earned a trainee position on the soap opera Neighbours; she wound
up writing nearly forty episodes, in addition to serving in various
other script-related capacities. Dollard also worked on the children's
series Li'l Larikkins and The Saddle Club before
immigrating to the United Kingdom in 2008. There she hoped to become
involved with a programme that had the scale and ambition of Doctor
Who's twenty-first-century revival, which was beyond the scope of
the Australian television industry.
Dollard quickly established a career for herself in Britain, first
developing storylines for Casualty before taking posts as an
assistant script editor on Merlin and as a script editor on
Primeval and Stella. Frequent Doctor Who
contributor Toby Whithouse invited her to write a 2013 episode of
Being Human and a 2014 installment of The Game, after
which she also contributed to You, Me And The Apocalypse and
created the Welsh-language sitcom Cara Fi, on which she was an
executive producer. Dollard then achieved her ambition of writing for
Doctor Who, with 2015's Face
The Raven killing off companion Clara Oswald -- sort of. A
second script for Peter Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor followed, in the form
of 2017's Thin Ice. Dollard
went on to write for shows such as Bridgerton, on which she was
also a producer, and A Discovery Of Witches.
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