Megan Gallagher
Writer
Film, TV & Theatre
Film, TV & Theatre
Megan Gallagher is an Oslo-based American-born writer who created and wrote the critically acclaimed crime Netflix Original series BORDERLINER, a Nordic-noir crime drama about a police detective who covers up a murder case to protect his family. She also created and wrote SEIZURE for Viaplay, an eight-part thriller about two newly partnered detectives on a hunt to save a missing child, starring Anders Danielsen Lie. You can read an interview with Megan about the show in Variety magazine. Megan also wrote two episodes of Apple's 2022 drama/thriller SUSPICION starring Uma Therman.
Her new BBC series WOLF, based on Mo Hayder's acclaimed Jack Caffery novels, is set to release in July 2023, with Kristoffer Nyholm directing (TABOO, ENFLIED HAUNTING) and Hartswood (SHERLOCK) producing.
Television
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
WOLF 2023 | Hartswood / About Premium Content / BBC | As Writer for all 6 episodes |
SUSPICION 2022 | Keshet / Apple | Writer x 2 episodes |
SEIZURE 2019 | Miso Film Norway / Viaplay | Original supernatural-drama series written and created by Megan |
2017 | Monster Scripted / TV2 / Netflix / Sky Germany | Megan is the co-creator and writer of the 8-part series BORDERLINER, an original thriller starring Kon-Tiki actor Tobias Santelmann as homicide detective Nikolai Andreassen, who becomes involved in criminal endeavors involving his own family. BORDERLINER was released on Netflix in the UK in March 2018 and was nominated for best TV Drama Script at the 2018 Goteborg Film Festival |
In Development
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
ACT OF OBLIVION 2024 | NBC Universal / Carnival | Adaptation of the novel by Robert Harris |
THE FLIGHT 2022 | Carnival Film & Television | |
DISORDER 2022 | Corona Productions | Returnable drama about the closed door worlds of some of the most powerful people in society |
REDSHIFT 2022 | Fearless Minds/Banijay | Space-set procedural drama |
Film
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
GRAND HOTEL 2016 | 4 1/2 Fiksjon | Written and created by Megan Gallagher, GRAND HOTEL was nominated in the Best Original Screenplay category at Norway's 2016 Amanda Awards |