Michaeley O'Brien is an Australian television writer, script editor and script producer. Born in

Mudgee Mudgee is a town in the Central West of New South Wales, Australia. It is in the broad fertile Cudgegong River valley north-west of Sydney and is the largest town in the Mid-Western Regional Council local government area as well as being th ...

, she grew up in

Gulgong Gulgong is a 19th-century gold rush town in the Central Tablelands and the wider Central West regions of the Australian state of New South Wales. The town is situated within the Mid-Western Regional Council local government area. It is locate ...

and studied at

Charles Sturt University Charles Sturt University is an Australian multi-campus public university located in New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory and Victoria. Established in 1989, it was named in honour of Captain Charles Napier Sturt, a British explore ...

in Bathurst as well as the Australian Film Television and Radio School. She worked as script producer on '' Water Rats'' and ''

McLeod's Daughters ''McLeod's Daughters'' is an Australian drama television series created by Posie Graeme-Evans and Caroline Stanton for the Nine Network, which aired from 8 August 2001, to 31 January 2009, lasting eight seasons. It stars Lisa Chappell and Bri ...

'' and most recently wrote episodes of '' Underbelly: Razor''. ''Mystery Road,'' Episode 1, ''Gone'', was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Betty Rowland Prize for Scripwriting, 2019.

Selected credits

*'' Home and Away'' *''

Blue Heelers ''Blue Heelers'' is an Australian Police procedural, police drama series that was produced by Endemol Australia, Southern Star Group and ran for 12 years on the Seven Network, from 1994 to 2006. Although based around the policing of the town, ...

''Peter Haddow, 'Behind the Scenes in Blue Heelers', ''Australian Police Journal'' (December 1999)
/ref> *'' Neighbours'' *''

'' *'' Out of the Blue'' *'' All Saints'' *'' City Homicide'' *'' Rescue: Special Ops'' *''

Sea Patrol ''Sea Patrol'' is an Australian television drama that ran from 2007 to 2011, set on board HMAS ''Hammersley'', a fictional patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The series focused on the ship and the lives of its crew members. Despi ...

'' *'' Underbelly: Razor''

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