Tassie Cameron

Tassie Cameron is a Gemini Award-winning Canadian screenwriter who has contributed to numerous television shows and films. She has been the head writer and executive producer on the Global Television Network/ABC series Rookie Blue and CBC Television's Pretty Hard Cases.

Tassie Cameron
Tassie Cameron in October 2008
BornCanada
LanguageEnglish
NationalityCanadian
CitizenshipCanada
GenresTelevision, screenwriting

Early life and education

Cameron is the daughter of journalist Stevie Cameron. She spent her formative years at Elmwood School an all-girls school in Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa.

Cameron has a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Trinity College of the University of Toronto,[1] Master's degree in film from New York University, and is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto.

Career

Cameron was a story editor and writer on CTV's Degrassi: The Next Generation; an executive story editor and writer for two seasons of CTV's prime-time drama The Eleventh Hour (for which she co-won the Gemini for Best Writing with Semi Chellas); and a writer and story editor on CBC's Tom Stone. In 2007, she adapted Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride into a television movie. Cameron also co-wrote with Esta Spalding the acclaimed CTV mini-series Would Be Kings, garnering them a Gemini nomination.

Cameron spent eight years in New York City working in independent film and at HBO television.

Cameron has also worked as a screenwriting instructor at the Humber School for Writers.

References
  1. "Alumni Portraits". University of Toronto.
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