Introduction
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.
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, 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.