Ben Marshall is a television scriptwriter with South Pacific Pictures. He has worked for Freemantle, Grundy, and Gibson Group, as well as science journalism for print media. A short film he wrote won awards for best story and best drama in Brisbane, New York and the Gold Coast. Prior to his writing career he worked on farms, prawn trawlers, factory floors, and has been a nurse and a midwife in Australia, Scotland and New Zealand.