Chelsea Cassio

Writer

Screenwriter Chelsea Cassio has worked with many of Australia's most prominent production companies across numerous television productions.

After graduating from film school, Chelsea sold her first short film, Imaginary Friend, to ABC (Australia), which aired over three years. She has since written for shows such as The Doctor Blake Mysteries (December Media/ ABC /BBC), Secret Bridesmaids Business (7 Network / Channel 4), and Miss Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries (7 Network / Acorn TV).

In 2019, Chelsea's crime series Cloak received significant draft development funding from Victoria Screen, where she worked extensively with the producer Simon Mirren (Versailles, Criminal Minds). Chelsea has had original television concepts in development with Easy Tiger (Australia), Atlantic Nomad (USA), and Mediawan (France). She currently has an original television concept in active development with the French production company Federation Entertainment.

In 2020, her sci-fi series Yesterday was selected for Imagine Impact – a global content accelerator program launched by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. In 2022, her series The Others was selected for the UGC Writers' Lab at Series Mania in Lille, France.

In other story roles, Chelsea has worked as a lecturer for RMIT's Advanced Diploma in Screenwriting, as a Development Script Producer at Seven Studios in Melbourne, as a script reader for the Scriptwriters’ Network in Los Angeles, and as an industry assessor and mentor for Victoria Screen, Screen Australia (Gender Matters), Australian Writers’ Guild and Writers’ Victoria. 

Chelsea is a graduate of the Writers' Homicide School in Las Vegas, where she honed her skills as a mystery writer.

For enquiries regarding Chelsea Cassio please contact us via email or on (02) 9319 7199