Jacklyn Bassanelli: Writer

Jacklyn Bassanelli is an award-winning Melbourne based screenwriter and script editor. In 2023, Jacklyn wrote the 6 part crime-thriller audio drama You Don’t Know Me for SCA, which can be heard on the LiSTNR app. Jacklyn was Script Editor on Halifax: Retribution for Beyond Lonehand and Channel Nine, and a participant in the Scripted Ink / Screentime Hothouse initiative, in conjunction with Screentime and Channel Nine, developing two original drama ideas. Jacklyn’s first audio drama project, Evergreen, was developed by the ABC through the Fresh Start initiative. In 2018, Jacklyn won the AWG’s Laugh Out Loud Comedy Pilot competition with her comedy / drama script Preconception, further developing the project with support from Scripted Ink. Jacklyn wrote seven episodes of the animated children’s series Kitty is Not a Cat for BES and Channel 7 and developed a sci-fi mystery tv drama series, Evergreen, with support from Film Victoria and Scripted Ink. She has participated in writers’ rooms for Ruby Entertainment, Beyond and LateNite Films, and completed a writing internship on the long running Foxtel drama Wentworth, with support from Film Victoria and Scripted Ink.

Jacklyn has four original projects on the AWG’s Pathways Showcase, and is interested in working across genre, drama and comedy, as her diverse slate of projects demonstrates. Prior to screenwriting, Jacklyn was an independent theatre maker, co-founding the multi award winning company Stuck Pigs Squealing with Chris Kohn where she collaborated as writer, actor and dramaturg. She travelled to New York, Paris, London, Edinburgh and Sydney with the company and her own work including Black Swan of Trespass, Pink Denim in Manhattan, Unholy Site and Cafe Amour.

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