Susan Bower
| Susan Bower | |
|---|---|
| Born | Susan Bower |
| Occupation | Television producer, Television writer |
| Years active | 1992–present |
Susan Bower is an Australian television producer and television writer best known for her work on the soap opera Neighbours. Bower is also the founder of the production company Bower Bird Productions.
Bower is a former nurse who worked at The Alfred Hospital for 20 years before getting her scriptwriting breakthrough on A Country Practice, where she provided the show's medical information. She later progressed to trainee script editor where she wrote the episode "A Virtuous Woman" in 1992, eventually becoming the story editor of the show.
She also wrote for Big Sky, for Neighbours in 1994 and 1996, and for Home and Away in the early 1990s.
Bower became an executive producer in 2004, producing McLeod's Daughters. From this she went on to produce various productions including Little Oberon in 2005 and Sea Patrol in 2007 before becoming executive producer of Neighbours in 2008. On 25 October 2011, it was announced Bower would be leaving Neighbours in December 2011 to move into a new international role with FremantleMedia.
in 2013, Bower was mentioned in a lawsuit by Kym Valentine. Valentine alleged that Bower, former producer Neal Kingston, legal director Stephen Tosser and FremantleMedia Australia engaged in unlawful discrimination when Valentine was off sick with pneumonia. The lawsuit was later dropped by Valentine after an undisclosed settlement was reached with FremantleMedia.
In 2008, Bower attracted criticism when Neighbours, among other television programmes, was accused of being "too white". In defence, Bower said that the core cast were from a variety of ethnic backgrounds including French, Italian, South African, Maltese, Danish, Portuguese and Swedish (despite all the actors originating from those nationalities being ethnically white). She said that the soap's characters have a wide variety of backgrounds, including Tibetan and Belarusian (the Kinski siblings) and that a Greek character would be joining the cast. She also stated she would like more ethnic characters in the main cast. Around the time of this criticism, Bower introduced the character of Sunny Lee, portrayed by Korean Australian actress Hany Lee, on a temporary contract to Neighbours.
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