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TessaTylee

  • Director/producer
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Tessa Tylee has over two decades of television credits, including six seasons of community hero garden renovation show Mucking In. She begun on the coffee run on factual series Heroes and worked her way up to helm documenaries on rally driver Possum Bourne and actor Kevin Smith. These days Tylee runs her own production outfit, Alice in Television, from Hawke's Bay. 

Screenography

Kete Aronui - Dean Hapeta
2007 Director Television
Kete Aronui - Fiona Pardington
2006 Director Television
Possum - A Tribute to Possum Bourne
2004 Director, Producer Television
Remembering Kev: A Tribute to Kevin Smith
2003 Director, Producer Television
Give It A Whirl
2003 - 2006 Writer, Post-Production Director Series

Biography

Tessa Tylee was raised in the Hawke’s Bay. Following a marketing degree at Canterbury University, she found work as a copywriter, and later promotions manager, at Tauranga's Radio BOP. The lure of bright lights drew her to Auckland in the early 90s, where she began doing promotions work for TVNZ, before joining Communicado series Heroes as a third assistant director on the coffee and photocopier run. 

Awards

2004 Qantas Media Awards
Best Lifestyle Programme: for Mucking In

2003 New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Lifestyle Series: for Mucking In

 

“One of the primary goals is getting the best out of those around you, so people skills are critical. You also need to understand the outcomes you expect from the lighting, camera and other specialists who work alongside you. ”

— Tylee on what skills a TV producer needs, in a 2003 NZ Herald interview