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Duncan Sarkies is a New Zealand screenwriter, playwright, novelist, stand-up comic and short story writer. Sarkies grew up in the South Island city of Dunedin and is the brother of Robert Sarkies a New Zealand film director who is also a scriptwriter.
Duncan Sarkies is an award-winning novelist, playwright and screenwriter. His work, heralded by critics for its originality, is best known for its eccentric plots and darkly comic portrayals of ‘the outsider’ and the disturbed.
Duncan Sarkies. Playwright, Screenwriter (Flight of the Conchords), Filmmaker (Saving Grace, Scarfies) “Allen Hall was more than a training ground for me – it was the steepest learning curve I've had in theatre. It also provided the chance for me to own a theatre.
Duncan Sarkies is known for Scarfies (1999), Flight of the Conchords (2007) and What We Do in the Shadows (2019).
- Duncan Sarkies
Duncan Sarkies has written several plays, live shows and film and tv scripts, including episodes of the HBO TV series Flight of the Conchords. His short story collection Stray Thoughts and Nose Bleeds won Best First Book at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards.
Duncan Sarkies is a playwright, screen writer, fiction writer and stand-up comic. He is best known as the co-writer, with his brother Robert Sarkies, of the hugely successful 1999 film Scarfies.
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Duncan is a graduate of the Roger Hall playwriting course at Otago University. A playwright, screenwriter and stand-up comic as well as a fiction writer, he won the Bruce Mason playwriting award in 1995 and the Louis Johnson New Writer’s Bursary in 1998. His play Saving Grace was filmed in 1997.
