Lynn Hegarty is an award-winning director of television drama. Over an extensive career she has directed programs for all the Australian free-to-air networks as well as international partners ZDF, the BBC and more recently Paramount+, Amazon Prime and Acorn.

Her most recent directing credits include The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race for Paramount+, Amazon Prime’s first foray into Australian content, Back to the Rafters, the award-winning period drama A Place To Call Home for Seven/Foxtel, Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries telemovies for Acorn and the Seven Studios Original drama, Between Two Worlds.

Over a successful and busy career Lynn has directed many high-profile dramas including Crownies, Heartbreak High, Wildside and Police Rescue for the ABC, Playing God – the Halifax f.p. telemovie (nominated for Most Outstanding Telemovie at the Logie Awards), Stingers and Water Rats for the Nine Network and Winter and All Saints for Seven. Her credits in comedy include the highly successful Packed to the Rafters for Seven and Me and My Monsters for the BBC/Nickelodeon.

As well as her work in television drama Lynn has directed award-winning shorts for Film Australia, numerous television commercials and the four-part documentary series An Australian Odyssey for the BBC/SBS. She’s been a frequent panelist at industry seminars and Think-Tanks to promote and mentor upcoming female directors and worked as a consultant director and lecturer at the Australian Film, Television and Radio school as well as the International Film School Sydney.

A graduate of Swinburne School of Film and Television in Melbourne, Lynn’s final film The Seannachie was nominated for Best Short Fiction at the Australian Film Institute and her follow-up film, the one-hour comedy drama How Wonderful! won the Human Rights Award for Best Drama and was nominated Best International Dramatic Special at the American Cable Awards.

Lynn’s credits as a writer include her award-winning short films along with developing drama series for television – Good Vibrations for Channel Nine, Rush for Ten and Winners and Losers for Network Seven. Lynn’s most recent writing project is her own six-part crime drama series Fatal. She has also developed a series with Graeme Simsion for Hoodlum. She’s interested in drama that highlights ethical and political issues, particularly those affecting women.

DIRECTING

SERIES

BACK TO THE RAFTERS
Amazon Prime, 2021
Director – Season 1 (Episodes 3 & 4)
Second Unit Director – Season 1 (Episodes 1, 2, 4, 5, 6)

MS FISHER’S MODERN MURDER MYSTERIES
Every Cloud Productions/Acorn [US]/Seven Network, 2019-2021
Director – Season 2 (Episodes 2, 3, 7, 8)
Season 1 (Episode 3)

BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
Seven Network, 2020
Director – Season 1 (Episodes 3 & 4)

WINTER
Cornerstone Pictures/Seven Network, 2015
Director – Season 1 (Episodes 5 & 6)

A PLACE TO CALL HOME
Seven Network/Acorn TV, 2013-2014
Director – Season 2 (Episodes 5 & 6)
Season 1 (Episodes 6 & 7)

PACKED TO THE RAFTERS
Seven Network, 2008-2013
Director – Season 6 (Episodes 9 & 10)
Season 5 (Episodes 5 & 6)
Season 4 (Episodes 7 & 10)
Season 3 (Episodes 7, 8, 17, 18)
Season 2 (Episodes 3, 4, 15, 16)
Season 1 (Episodes 5, 6, 11, 12, 17, 20)

TRICKY BUSINESS                                         
Screentime, 2012
Director – Season 1 (Episodes 9 & 10)

CROWNIES
Screentime/ABC, 2011
Director
Season 1 (Episodes 7, 8, 13, 14, 19, 20)

ME AND MY MONSTERS
Sticky Pictures/BBC, 2010-2011
Director – Season 2 (Episodes 12 & 13)
Season 1 (Episodes 2 & 11)

ALL SAINTS
Seven Network, 2005-2008
Director – Season 11 (Episode 3)
Season 10 (Episodes 2, 8, 28, 36)
Season 9 (Episodes 5, 12, 18, 25)
Season 8 (Episode 33)

WHITE COLLAR BLUE
Knapman Wyld Television/Network Ten, 2002-2003
Director – Season 2 (Episodes 7 & 8)
Season 1 (Episodes 5 & 7)

STINGERS                                                      
Beyond Simpson le Mesurier/Nine Network, 1999-2002
Director – Season 5 (Episodes 9 & 13)
Season 4 (Episodes 5, 12, 19)
Season 3 (Episode 8)
Season 2 (Episode 22)

HALIFAX F. P.
Simpson le Mesurier/Nine Network, 2001
Director – Season 1 (Episode 20)

WATER RATS
Nine Network, 2000-2001
Director – Season 6 (Episodes 7 & 8)
Season 5 (Episodes 9, 10, 26, 27, 35, 36)

HEARTBREAK HIGH
Network Ten/BBC [UK], 1997-1999
Director – Season 7 (Episodes 21 & 22)
Season 6 (Episodes 3, 35, 36)
Season 5 (Episode 28)

WILDSIDE
ABC, 1999
Director – Season 2 (Episodes 11 & 12)

TWISTED
Nine Network, 1998
Director – Season 1 (Episode 5)

AN AUSTRALIAN ODYSSEY
Glasshouse Pictures/ABC International, 1996
Director – Season 1 (Episodes 1-4) 

POLICE RESCUE
ABC/BBC [UK], 1991
Director – Season 1 (Episode 12)

FILM

THE APPLETON LADIES’ POTATO RACE
Perpetual Entertainment/Paramount+, 2023
Director

HOW WONDERFUL!
ABC, 1989
Director/Writer

THE SEANNACHIE (Short)
Swinburne Film and Television School, 1988
Director/Writer