LAURIE NUNN

Creator and Screenwriter ⎮ United Kingdom

Biography

Laurie Nunn is an award winning writer of film, television and theatre. She was born in London and grew up in Victoria, Australia. She studied writing and directing at the VCA school of Film and TV in Melbourne, and then completed an MA in screenwriting at the National Film and Television School in the UK. Since graduating in 2012, she has found huge success as the creator of Netflix's hit show Sex Education which has just released it's third series. Sex Education has received critical and commercial success, with over 40 million viewers streaming the first series. Laurie’s first play King Brown was workshopped at the National Theatre Studio and went on to win a Judges award at the 2017 Bruntwood Prize.

And for this very first KONBINI Commitment Award, we wanted to pay tribute to the immense talent and innovation of Laurie Nunn, the creator and showrunner of the groundbreaking Sex Education. This teen drama’s first airing was in 2019 on NETFLIX. It was produced in the post-#MeToo era and explored teen sexuality in all its diversity with humor and relevance. Through sequences that are already cult (including the famous "It's my vagina!"), Sex Education highlighted queer sexualities, sisterhood, non-toxic masculinity, or physical or sexual violence that teenagers face.

The show managed to do all this while addressing a wide audience. Over the course of three seasons, Laurie Nunn strives to break down taboos and questions the content of high school sex education classes in a very tangible way. The launch of season 2 was accompanied by a sex education manual, sold out within a few hours. In addition, a new job appeared in season 1 on the series set : that of intimacy coordinator whose job is to film sex scenes with a more artistic vision and in a safer way for its performers. In front of and behind the camera, Sex Education has proven that humor can rhyme with education, innovation and artistic ambition. Laurie Nunn’s series has also won us over with its swirling direction, complex characters played by a cast of promising young actors and actresses, and a catchy soundtrack.