Originally hailing from Western Australia, Kodie Bedford is a writer, director and award-winning playwright with strong family ties to East Kimberley. Most recently, Kodie wrote an episode of Netflix’s hit outback dynastic drama TERRITORY, which rose to the global number one Most Watched show on the platform in its first week of release. Additionally, Kodie served as a writer on BBC’s RETURN TO PARADISE and on the second season of Seven Network’s RFDS.

Kodie has worked on several successful ABC series, co-writing and directing an episode of the comedy anthology SUMMER LOVE, executive producing, co-writing and script producing ALL MY FRIENDS ARE RACIST, which won Best Short Form Comedy at the 2021 AACTA Awards, and writing on SQUINTERS, GRACE BESIDE ME, TROPPO, MYSTERY ROAD: ORIGINS, which was nominated for Best Drama Series at the AACTAs, and its predecessor MYSTERY ROAD. On the AMC+ Indigenous vampire series FIREBITE, Kodie served as co-executive producer, script producer and writer.

Her directorial debut, a short horror film titled SCOUT, premiered at the Sydney Film Festival in 2019 as part of the horror anthology feature DARK PLACE. That same year,  Kodie received the Balnaves Fellowship to develop her own play, CURSED!, with Belvoir Theatre. Staged in 2020, CURSED! went on to win both Best Stage Play and the major award at the AWGIE Awards. It was additionally shortlisted for the prestigious Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, as well as the Multicultural NSW Award.