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Jon Dalgaard

Writer, Children's, Preschool, 6+ years, Animation, Live Action, Head Writer, Series Developer

Agent: Jean Kitson - jean@kitsonpress.co.uk

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Jon is a Danish/Australian screenwriter excelling at character-driven comedy and action adventure. He has written on shows such as Monster Loving Maniacs for CBBC, Taffy for Boomerang, 100% Wolf: Legend of the Moonstone for ABC, and Kitty Is Not A Cat for Disney.

Jon’s animated series concept Karyn Splitter: Alien Sitter won the Disney Channel Prize at MIFA Pitches in Annecy. He co-created BedHead, a live-action short-form comedy series which aired on ABC in Australia for which he received an Australian Writer’s Guild nomination.

Jon is currently Lead Writer on an upcoming animated series for German studio Akkord Films and is developing projects for Distillery Films and Daily Madness.

Jon decided to become a writer at the tender age of six after his parents laughed heartily for several minutes at a short story he had written. The story was not a comedy.

More often than not Jon channels his experience as a Dane living abroad into incredibly serious projects usually featuring roguish monsters, rebellious aliens, or some sort of out of control ice cream-shooting robot threatening to destroy the world because it feels like it doesn’t fit in.

Work

Current

Title TBA (2023)
Akkord Films

Lead writer and development on new animated series

Title TBA
Caligari

Writing episodes for upcoming animated series

Umami
Distillery Films

Writing development bible and pilot script for this 52 x 11′ 7-11 animated comedy series.

Title TBA
Tumblehead

Development work on this animated family feature

Credits

Monster Loving Maniacs (2021-2022)
Ja Film / Mondo TV / Toon2Tango / CBBC

Wrote 11 x 11′ episodes of this animated adventure comedy series, now available on CBBC and BBC iPlayer.

Taffy S2 (2021)
Baboon Animation / Cybergroup / Boomerang

Wrote 2 x 7′ episodes and gained “Story by” credit on 3 x 7′ episodes

Kitty Is Not A Cat S2 (2020)
Seven Network / BES

Wrote 1 x 11′ episode.

100% Wolf (2020)
Studio 100 / Flying Bark

Wrote 1 x 22′ episode.

Taffy S1 (2018)
Baboon Animation / Cybergroup / Boomerang

Wrote 5 x 7′ episodes and gained “story by” credit on 10 x 7′ episodes of this animated series.

Smighties (2018)
Toonz / Herotainment

Wrote 7 x 7′ episodes of this animated adventure series.

Bedhead (2015)
ABC / Screen Australia

Co-created, co-wrote and produced this 30′ TV pilot commissioned by ABC and Screen Australia.

Bedhead (2014)
ABC / Screen Australia

Co-created, co-wrote and produced 5 x 4′ episodes of this online series, broadcast on ABC iView, YouTube, and Funny Or Die

NOMINATED for LA Webfest Grand Prize

NOMINATED for Australian Writers Guild Award

The Rotten Eggs (2013)
Cartoon Network Studios

Wrote development Bible and co-wrote 11′ unreleased TV pilot

Accolades

Karyn Splitter: Alien Sitter

Animated Series 6+

WINNER of the Disney Prize – New Series MIFA Pitches 2017 Annecy

Olympians!

Animated Series 6+

Selected for Fox Digital Writers’ Residence, 2016, Marseille