Today my guest is Gretel Vella.
She’s a fabulously funny and extraordinarily talented writer from Sydney Australia.
She wrote on the series The Great and prior to that wrote so much TV including many of episodes of Doctor Doctor and the films Christmas Ransom and A Sunburnt Christmas which are both on Stan.
And Stan is where her new series is out right now - called ‘Totally Completely Fine’.
00:00 Intro
04:52 Interview start
09:28 Pitching the show
14:27 Writing honestly about mental illness
25:55 Responsibility
32:02 The project of writing
34:26 Writing for the first time
37:54 What she gets out of writing
40:46 Working for other writers early in her career
43:04 What a Showrunner is
47:01 Australian content
51:21 Mentorship