Rachel Alison Mary Lang MNZM is a New Zealand television screenwriter, executive producer and actor.^[1] She co-created the television series Outrageous Fortune, Go Girls, This Is Not My Life, Mercy Peak, Nothing Trivial, The Blue Rose, and Filthy Rich. She was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to television, in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours.^[2][3][4]

Lang graduated from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School in 1982 with a Diploma in Acting.^[5] Lang's first work in script writing was as a script editor at TVNZ in the 1980s. She worked on episodes of Shark in the Park, Open House and movie Mark II.

From 1992 until 2000 she worked on Shortland Street, starting as a story liner then moving on to roles as story editor and executive producer. She was the first New Zealander employed as story editor on the show, with previous story editors employed from Australia.

In 1999 she created Jackson's Wharf, one of her first collaborations with Gavin Strawhan. They would go on to work together on Mercy Peak and Maddigan's Quest.

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