Justin Monjo (born 1963, New York) is an American screenwriter, television producer, and actor, best known for his work on Farscape and penning the Farscape movie in 2014.

Early life

Monjo is the son of children's author F. N. Monjo III and the great-great-grandson of arctic furrier F. N. Monjo.^[1]

Monjo graduated from NIDA in 1985, alongside actresses Catherine McClements and Sonia Todd, and director Baz Luhrmann.

Career

Monjo wrote Adrian Pasdar's film debut screenplay Cement and worked on Young Lions. He created the 2005 TV series The Alice with Robyn Sinclair.

His adaptation with his former NIDA teacher Nick Enright of Cloudstreet by Tim Winton enjoyed huge critical and box-office success at the Festivals of Sydney and Perth, on tour of Australia, at the Festival of Dublin, and in London.

Filmography

As actor

• The Salute of the Jugger (1989 film) as Dog-Boy
• Babe (1995 film) as Voice actor
• Murder Call (1998 TV series, S2E18: Instrument of Death) as Roland Lacey
• Dark City (1998 film) as Taxi Driver

As writer

• Farscape (TV series)
• Cement (2000 film)
• Young Lions (2002 TV series)
• The Alice (2004 film)
• The Alice (2005 TV series) - Co-creator
• Rush (2008-09, TV series, S1-2)
• Cloudstreet (2011 stage play)
• Bait 3D (2012 film)
• The Turning (2013 anthology film, segment: Sand)
• The Code (2014 TV series, S1E5)
• Farscape (2014 film)
• Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door (2015 miniseries)
• Jungle (2017 film)
• Storm Boy (2019 film)
• Bali 2002 (2022 miniseries)