Penny Chapman is one of Australia’s most experienced television producers. She was a founding partner of the multi award winning company Matchbox Pictures. Her Matchbox credits include Secret City, Deadline Gallipoli, Devil’s Playground, The Straits, The Slap and the children’s series My Place. Her earlier credits include RAN (Remote Area Nurse), Leaky Boat, Rampant: How A City Stopped a Plague, Darwin’s Lost Paradise, The Cooks and The Road From Coorain.

During the 1990s, Penny was Head of TV Drama, then Head of Television at the ABC. During this time she executive produced many dramas, among them Brides Of Christ, (which she devised), The Leaving Of Liverpool, and Blue Murder. 

In 2010, Penny was awarded the inaugural Inside Film Award for Contribution to the Television Industry and in 2013 the Screen Producers Australia Maura Fay Award for Services to the industry.