Biography

Elise McCredie is an award-winning screenwriter, and show runner. She is co-creator and show runner on the new series - THE AIRPORT CHAPLAIN starring Hugo Weaving (SBS, Netflix). She was also show runner on the multi-award winning Disney + series, The Clearing starring Miranda Otto and Guy Pearce. Elise was the writer, co-creator and show runner of Stateless (ABC/Netflix) starring Yvonne Strahovski, which she executive produced with Cate Blanchett and Tony Ayres. In 2020 Stateless won a record 13 AACTAs, including best screenplay and best limited series. She has been nominated for 6 Australian Writers' Guild Awards (winning twice) and 5 AACTAS. She was nominated for the prestigious NSW Premier's Literary Awards for Stateless. She also wrote the Emmy winning ABC series, Nowhere Boys, was writer and co-creator of the AACTA winning best mini-series, Sunshine (Anthony LaPaglia and Melanie Lynskey), and Jack Irish (Guy Pearce). Elise's first feature Strange Fits of Passion (writer/director) was selected for the Cannes Film Festival and nominated for 3 AFI awards and an AWGIE. Elise's second feature, Ride Like a Girl (co-written with Andrew Knight and directed by Rachel Griffiths) was nominated for an AWGIE for best feature screenplay and an AACTA for best film. Ride Like A Girl was the top grossing Australian film of 2019.
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