High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Van Badham is an Australian playwright. She writes dramas and comedies.Van Badham was born Vanessa Badham in Sydney in 1978. Her mother and father worked in the New South Wales gaming and track industry, with her father eventually working for the registered club industry as a publican. An only child, she grew up immersed in an adult culture of betting, drinking and sports. Her family moved many times during her youth.