Shelley Birse

Creator of the highly celebrated and multi award winning drama The Code, Shelley Birse has written and script edited some of Australia’s most respected television dramas. Beginning her career on the ABC series GP, and story editing the final series, Shelley moved on to co-create, associate produce and co-write the 26-part series Love is a Four-Letter Word alongside Michael Miller. Her other writing credits include Wildside, Young Lions, Satisfaction, Rush and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. Shelley has also worked extensively in children’s drama, including the AFI and TV Week Logie Award winning and BAFTA nominated Lockie Leonard with Tim Pye, her episode winning a Best Children’s AWGIE award in 2010. Previously Shelley has worked in animation and live action children’s series in both Australia and Germany. She wrote extensively for the hugely popular Blue Water High, including the publication of a novel based on the series. In 2011 she was selected to participate in “Playmaker’s Screen Australia Enterprise-funded Scribe Showrunner Initiative”. This led to her creating The Code – the first season of which garnered six AACTA Awards including Best Television Drama Series and the 2014 AWGIEs Major Award and Television Miniseries Original. Shelley also received the 2015 French Fipa D’Or TV Series and Serials: Screenplay Award for The Code.

Works

The Commons

Set in a gripping vision of the near future, THE COMMONS is an absorbing character-driven relationship drama and a story about motherhood as the ultimate act of faith in humanity.

Release Date:2019-12-25

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:8

The Code

The Code is a drama series which tells tells the story of two brothers who discover some information that those at the highest levels of political power are determined to keep secret.

Release Date:2014-09-21

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:60

Cops L.A.C.

Cops L.A.C. is a 2010 Australian television police drama, which screened on the Nine Network. The series followed the work of officers at the Seaview Local Area Command, a fictitious police response area of the 'State Police' set in harbourside Sydney, New South Wales. The first series premiered on 2 September 2010, in the same timeslot of Network Ten's police drama Rush. On 22 November 2010, the Nine Network cancelled the show due to the high production costs.

Release Date:2010-09-02

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

Satisfaction

Set in and around 232, an up-market city brothel, Satisfaction reveals the world of five high class escorts and their manager as they juggle the pressures of their private lives with their secret profession.

Release Date:2007-12-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:23

Wildside

Wildside is an Australian police procedural television series broadcast on the ABC from 1997 to 1999. The show consisted of a one hour format that followed police interactions in inner Sydney. It starred Rachael Blake, Tony Martin, Richard Carter and Alex Dimitriades. Mary Coustas joined the series in a regular role late in its run, appearing in the last ten episodes. The series was filmed in Sydney. It was characterised by its use of ad lib dialogue and hand held camera work. It won several Logie Awards, including Silver Logies for outstanding work by Rachael Blake and Tony Martin for acting, as well as the Most Outstanding Miniseries Logie in 1998. It was also nominated for several Australian Film Institute Awards. A rerun of the series began in Australia on ABC1 in the early hours of Friday mornings, starting in September 2008.

Release Date:1997-11-23

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:3