Michelle is a highly experienced screenwriter, story editor and script editor. Her work has screened on all Australian networks with credits across several genres and demos. Crime miniseries include Hyde and Seek, East West 101, Rush, Tricky Business, murder mystery Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries and action adventure Wild Boys. Michelle has written for animation series 100%Wolf, Tashi, The Wild Adventures of Blinky Bill, children’s live action series MaveriX, Conspiracy 365, Sam Fox and Playschool (ABC). She is a regular writer on the serial Home and Away (CH7).
Michelle is a co-creator with Trudy Hellier – who recently received Screen Australia development funding for their polyamory drama Polysaturated, supported by Northern Pictures. Their crime series – Hopetoun (optioned by Hoodlum) Del Fricker (optioned by Werner Film) and The Treatment. This project was one of only 14 selected from around the world to pitch at the 2023 Series Mania Writers’ Campus in Lille, France. The same year their dramedy series Loved Up was optioned by UK production company Hat Trick (Derry Girls). Michelle is regularly sought after for writers’ rooms.
She has won an Awgie for Best Original Miniseries East West 101 (S1) and has received two NSW Premier’s Literary Award nominations and two QLD Premier’s Literary Awards for eps of East West 101, as well as further AWGIE nominations for Rush and EW101 (S 2 & 3). Her EW101 ep The Price of Salvation, was shortlisted in the 51st Monte-Carlo Television Festival.
