Speaker Tassie Cameron

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Tassie Cameron

Showrunner, Executive Producer

Cameron Pictures

Tassie Cameron is a Gemini and Canadian Screen Award-winning screenwriter who has written for television series, MOWs, mini-series, and feature films. 

Tassie was executive producer, showrunner and writer on the critically acclaimed Mary Kills People, produced under her production company Cameron Pictures in partnership with Entertainment One for Global/Lifetime. She was also an executive producer on Cameron Pictures’ comedy series Little Dog on CBC. Currently she is in prep on a new
one-hour police series for CBC, Lady Dicks, to air Winter 2021.

Tassie is the creator, showrunner, and executive producer of ABC’s 10-part 2017 series Ten Days in the Valley (starring Kyra Sedgwick). Previously, Tassie was the co-creator, executive producer and showrunner on the hit series, Rookie Blue, which ran for six seasons on Global and ABC, and which has aired around the world. She is also an executive producer on Private Eyes, Jason Priestley’s hit P.I. series for Global, and on Nurses, currently airing on Global.

Co-Executive Producer on the first season of CTV’s hit series, Flashpoint, Tassie’s other credits include Would Be Kings, The Eleventh Hour, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Tom Stone, Wild Roses, Fast Food High, Raising the Bar, Cake, and
Working Title’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride.

Tassie was the recipient of a Gemini Award for The Eleventh Hour, WIFT-T’s 2009 Creative Excellence Award, the WGC’s 2011 Showrunner Award, and the CSA’s 2015 Margaret Collier Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Tassie has an Honours BA in English from the University of Toronto, a Masters in Film from NYU, and is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre.

Speaking on: Coffee With... Tassie Cameron, Cameron Pictures; Diversity of Voices: what I learned taking my show from concept to greenlight

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