CHELSEA CASSIO
SCREENWRITER
IN DEVELOPMENT
After graduating from film school, Chelsea sold her first short film, Imaginary Friend, to ABC (Australia), which aired over a three-year period. She has since written multiple episodes of series television including The Doctor Blake Mysteries (BBC/ABC), Secret Bridesmaids' Business (Channel 4/7 Network), Miss Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries (Acorn TV/7 Network), Troppo (Amazon Freevee) and Return to Paradise (BBC/ABC).
In 2022, Chelsea's series 'The Others' was selected for the UGC Writers' Lab at Series Mania in Lille, France. In 2023, Her original, unproduced crime series won the best TV pilot screenplay at the Prix Royal: Paris Screenplay Awards and was a finalist at the New York International Screenplay Awards, Swedish International Film Festival and the Fabrique Du Cinema Awards in Rome. Chelsea's series 'Cloak' received significant draft development funding from VicScreen, where she worked with producer Simon Mirren (Versailles, Criminal Minds).
Chelsea's original television and film concepts have engaged various production companies, including Mediawan (France), Federation Studios (France) and Atlantic Nomad (UK), and in Australia: Easy Tiger, Hoodlum Entertainment, Princess Pictures, Curio Pictures and Seven Studios.
Chelsea has worked as a lecturer for RMIT’s Advanced Diploma in Screenwriting, as in house Development Script Producer at Seven Studios in Melbourne and as a script reader for the Scriptwriters Network in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of the Writers’ Homicide School in Las Vegas where she honed her skills as a crime writer.
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