Samantha Strauss is a writer for television and film. She co-created the hit Australian teen drama series DANCE ACADEMY which screens in over 160 countries. It has been nominated for two International Emmys and won the Most Outstanding Children’s Series …

Samantha Strauss is a writer and producer for television and film. She co-created the hit Australian teen drama series DANCE ACADEMY and more recently created and wrote Australian comedic drama, THE END.

Samantha Strauss Dance Academy Season 2 (2012) After a perfect summer holiday with her boyfriend Christian, Tara returns to the Academy to begin her second year.

Samantha Strauss. DIRECTORS Jessica M Thompson Jonathan Brough. CAST Harriet Walter Frances O’Connor ‘The End’ is about three generations of a family with separate but intersecting obsessions – trying to figure out how to die with dignity, live with none and make it count.

Strauss – who also scripted the telemovie Mary: The Making of a Princess – is a writer of real flair. A former teen dancer, she knows the milieu like the back of her hand and is not ashamed to take delight in an all-Aussie phrase like "pity pash".

Strauss – who also scripted the telemovie Mary: The Making of a Princess – is a writer of real flair. A former teen dancer, she knows the milieu like the back of her hand and is not ashamed to take delight in an all-Aussie phrase like "pity pash".

Samantha Strauss Dance Academy Season 3 (2013) Dreams and futures are on the line as Tara Webster and her friends enter their final year at the Academy and compete against each other for one of the coveted National Ballet Company contracts up for grabs.

Strauss – who also scripted the telemovie Mary: The Making of a Princess – is a writer of real flair. A former teen dancer, she knows the milieu like the back of her hand and is not ashamed to take delight in an all-Aussie phrase like "pity pash".

Samantha Strauss. DIRECTORS Jessica M Thompson Jonathan Brough. CAST Harriet Walter Frances O’Connor ‘The End’ is about three generations of a family with separate but intersecting obsessions – trying to figure out how to die with dignity, live with none and make it count.

Strauss – who also scripted the telemovie Mary: The Making of a Princess – is a writer of real flair. A former teen dancer, she knows the milieu like the back of her hand and is not ashamed to take delight in an all-Aussie phrase like "pity pash".