PaulCasserly
- Director
- Writer
Paul Casserly won a Qantas TV Award in 2009 for directing upstart satirical show Eating Media Lunch. The show ran for six years on TVNZ. Casserly continued his creative partnership with presenter Jeremy Wells on The Unauthorised History of New Zealand and Birdland. Casserly has also directed music programmes for Neil Finn and Bic Runga, and videos for Greg Johnson, Tim Finn, and his own group Strawpeople.
Screenography
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".
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.”
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