Philippa Campbell is a New Zealand film and television producer and the Literary Manager at the Auckland Theatre Company.
In 1988, she departed TVNZ to forge an independent career in television and film as a writer, script consultant, and development executive.
[2][7] Campbell made a break into screen producing with the Banff Television Festival nominee for best drama, Swimming Lessons in 1995, written by Simon Wilson and directed by Steve LaHood.
[7] In 2008, Campbell produced Florian Habicht’s documentary Rubbings From a Live Man, performed by Warwick Broadhead, which was nominated for Best Picture (budget under $1 million) at the 2008 Qantas Film and Television Awards.
[2] Campbell produced season 1 and 2 of Jane Campion's 2013/2017 television miniseries Top of the Lake, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
[citation needed] Campbell then went on to work on a number of creative projects including Shiver,[7] set in Antarctica, The Beach of Falesa, adapted from the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson.
[11] In 2015, Campbell formed a new Auckland-based production company, Field Theory, with producers Fiona Copeland and Tim Sanders, chief executive Lyoyd Meiklejohn, and consultant Michael Eldred.