Show Notes
We're joined on Breaking Screen by writer Melissa Lee Speyer, who talks about what her time as both a lawyer and development executive taught her about writing, how to interpret notes, her writing process, why her career path hasn't been a linear one, and much more.
Melissa's credits include episodes of television series The Heights for Matchbox Pictures and season two of Random and Whacky and forREAL! for Ambience Entertainment. Her theatre credits include 2018's Ticktickboomwhich won the 2015 Silver Gull Play Award, as well as plays A Christmas Carol and Trade. As well as being a writer, Mel spent four years as a development executive, working at Screen Australia and within a production company. She is a graduate of both NIDA's Playwriting course, and AFTRS Master of Arts in Screenwriting and was the 2017 recipient of the Foxtel Diversity Scholarship.
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