Biography
Paul Casserly grew up in the Auckland suburb of Onehunga. While at St Peter's College he dabbled with drumsticks, then decided he'd rather be the one in charge. A self-professed 'quiet kid' at school (although he also remembers getting laughs from his schoolmates with his "heh heh heh" impression of Robert Muldoon), Casserly watched a lot of television. He also got caned for adding a twist to grammar lessons, after writing that a "kiwi eats, roots and leaves".
Screenography
2021 Subject Web
2019 Subject Series
Who Killed Lucy the Poodle?
2019 Executive Producer Series
2018 Director, Writer Web
2018 - 2023 Director, Writer Series
Awards
2019 Huawei Mate30 Pro New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Comedy/Comedy Entertainment Programme (with Ashley Coupland, Charlotte Purdy and Anika Moa): for Anika Moa Unleashed, series two
“...none of us really knew what we were doing. We were making it up as we went along.”
— Paul Casserly on the early days of TV show Havoc, in his interview for 2019 TV series Funny As: The Story of New Zealand Comedy
Related images

Jeremy Wells and Paul Casserly hard at work on Eating Media Lunch
Photo taken and kindly supplied by Jonathan Brough
