Biography

Thomas is an award-winning director and screenwriter. He wrote the smash hit series Heartbreak High for Netflix which won an International Emmy and was #1 in Australia and top 10 in 45 other countries within a week of its release. Heartbreak High also won 5 AACTA awards, was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding New Series and was renewed for a second season. Thomas is currently adapting a beloved book into a miniseries, his second feature film Wildflowers with script editor Anna Seifert-Speck (Ammonite, Gods Own Country) and developing a slate of television projects.

Wilson-White's debut feature film The Greenhouse premiered at BFI: Flare London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival and Frameline. It won Best Direction in a Feature Film (budget under $1M) at the 2021 Australian Directors Guild awards, multiple Best Film awards and the Audience Choice Award at 2021 Mardi Gras Film Festival. The Greenhouse was then acquired by Netflix ANZ.

Thomas is the creator, writer and executive producer of his autobiographical TV series Sick To Death with the support of Screen Australia and Screen NSW and in collaboration with Rhapsody Films.

He is a graduate of the VCA and AFTRS, where he completed his Masters of Screen Arts in 2017, specializing in queer theory and the future of queer stories on screen, something he is wildly passionate about. His short film Back To Earth played at festivals around the world and is currently on ABC iView. St. Augustine, a short proof of concept, premiered in competition at MIFF 2019 and can be viewed online at Film Shortage.

He is represented by Mollison Keightley (Aus) and Cullen Conly (Anonymous Content) and Mark Ross (Paradigm) in the US.
- IMDb mini biography by: Thomas Wilson-White