Heather Conkie is a veteran Canadian television writer and producer who began her career as an actress. She was featured in multiple children's shows in the 1980s on TVOntario beginning first with Polka Dot Door.Her first screenwriting credit was for Beethoven Lives Upstairs (1992). She has subsequently worked extensively as a writer for numerous television series in Canada including Road to Avonlea, 7th Heaven, The Zack Files and Pit Pony, Dark Oracle and Heartland, as well as several made for television movies.As an on-screen performer, she was the host of Report Canada and Music Box. She played two characters (the main character, and her landlady Agnes Peabody) in a music-education show called It's Mainly Music. She reprised the role of Agnes Peabody in a spin-off show called Dear Aunt Agnes.
Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-series, Canadian Screen Awards - Margaret Collier Award
Nominations
Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Dramatic Series
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I don't think that just because something doesn't hit you in the face with outright violence or a controversy that it is any less valuable. I think that there is a niche for this kind of programming, and if you do it well, it deserves as much merit as anything else. People are too afraid that they liked it. It's like if they admitted liking Road to Avonlea, it was like admitting somewhere inside you're a marshmallow.
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Heartland
2007-2016
TV Series executive producer - 133 episodes
Port Hope
2013
TV Movie executive producer
A Heartland Christmas
2010
TV Movie executive producer
Dark Oracle
2004
TV Series executive producer
Amazon
1999
TV Series producer - 1 episode
Dear Aunt Agnes
1985-1989
TV Series producer - 2 episodes
Music Box
1981
TV Mini-Series producer
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Heartland
TV Series 5 episodes, 2015 - 2016 written by - 35 episodes, 2008 - 2015 teleplay - 7 episodes, 2007 - 2008
A Heartland Christmas
2010
TV Movie written by
Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars
2010
TV Movie written by
Dark Oracle
TV Series 8 episodes, 2004 - 2005 writer - 4 episodes, 2006
Bailey's Billion$
2005
screenplay
Devil's Perch
2005
TV Movie
Mrs. Ashboro's Cat
2004
TV Movie teleplay
The Zack Files
2001-2002
TV Series writer - 2 episodes
Mary Cassatt: An American Impressionist
1999
TV Movie
Amazon
1999
TV Series written by - 1 episode
Pit Pony
1999
TV Series written by - 12 episodes
Winslow Homer: An American Original
1999
TV Movie
Edison: The Wizard of Light
1998
TV Movie
Galileo: On the Shoulders of Giants
1998
TV Movie written by
Degas and the Dancer
1998
TV Movie
7th Heaven
1998
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Emily of New Moon
1998
TV Series written by - 1 episode
The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo
1998
TV Series written by - 1 episode
Newton: A Tale of Two Isaacs
1997
TV Movie
Pit Pony
1997
TV Movie written by
Pacific Palisades
1997
TV Series writer - 2 episodes
Marie Curie: More Than Meets the Eye
1997
TV Movie screenplay
Liszt's Rhapsody
1996
TV Movie
My Mother's Ghost
1996
TV Movie
Rossini's Ghost
1996
TV Movie
Flash Forward
1996
TV Series
Avonlea
TV Series written by - 21 episodes, 1990 - 1996 teleplay - 1 episode, 1993
Derby
1995
TV Movie
Bizet's Dream
1994
TV Movie
Beethoven Lives Upstairs
1992
TV Movie
Dear Aunt Agnes
1989
TV Series 1 episode
Music Box
1981
TV Mini-Series
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Dear Aunt Agnes
1985-1989
TV Series
Aunt Agnes
Police Surgeon
1972
TV Series
Nurse
Amazon
2000
TV Series
Mrs. Bauer
Composer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Dear Aunt Agnes
1989
TV Series 1 episode
Night Friend
1988
The Kidnapping of Baby John Doe
1987
TV Movie
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Dear Aunt Agnes
1985
TV Series original theme music - 1 episode
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
While She Was Out
2008
arranger: "Jingle Bells"
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Pacific Palisades
1997
TV Series executive story editor
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Music Box
1981
TV Mini-Series
Herself
Report Canada
1978
TV Series
Host
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2013
Margaret Collier Award
Canadian Screen Awards, CA
For a Writer's Exceptional Contribution to Canadian Television
2000
WGC Award
Writers Guild of Canada
Degas and the Dancer (1998)
1999
Daytime Emmy
Daytime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Writing in a Children's Special
Galileo: On the Shoulders of Giants (1998)
1999
Humanitas Prize
Humanitas Prize
Children's Live-Action Category
Degas and the Dancer (1998)
1998
Gemini
Gemini Awards
Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series
Pit Pony (1997)
1995
CableACE
CableACE Awards
Writing a Dramatic Series
Road to Avonlea (1990)
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2006
Gemini
Gemini Awards
Best Children's or Youth Fiction Program or Series
Dark Oracle (2004)
2005
Gemini
Gemini Awards
Best Writing in a Children's or Youth Program or Series