Kacie Anning is a writer and director. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film & Television from the Queensland University of Technology and is a directing graduate of the Australian Film Television Radio School, where she was awarded the Foxtel Scholarship for Exceptional New Talent in 2011.

Kacie is the creator, writer, director and executive producer of the Amazon Prime Video series Class of ’07. The eight-part high concept comedy chronicles a ten-year high school reunion that turns apocalyptic and features an all-female cast starring Emily Browning, Caitlin Stasey and Megan Smart.

In 2019, Kacie directed on the Prime comedy series Upload for showrunner Greg Daniels (The Office, Parks & Recreation), as well as the Disney+ comedy Diary of a Future President, executive produced by Gina Rodriguez (Jane The Virgin).

In 2017, Kacie was the sole director of Matt Okine’s break-up comedy The Other Guy for Stan in Australia and distributed by Hulu in the US. Kacie also wrote for the second series of The Other Guy, earning an Australian Writers’ Guild nomination for Best Comedy script in 2020. Her other television directing credits include the Emmy-award winning kids series Hardball for ABC Me (for which she won her second Australian Directors’ Guild award), as well as the sketch comedy series Wham Bam Thank-you Ma’am for ABC and NBC’s Seeso platform.

Kacie’s calling card was the online comedy series Fragments of Friday which she wrote, directed and starred in. In 2016, she won the Australian Directors Guild award for Best Direction in an Original Online Project for Series 2 of Fragments of Friday.

DIRECTING/WRITING

CLASS OF ’07
Matchbox Pictures/Amazon Prime Video, 2023
Executive Producer/Creator/Writer/Director
Season 1 (Episodes 1-8)

UPLOAD
Amazon Prime Video, 2020
Creator: Greg Daniels (The Office (US), Parks and Recreation)
Director – Season 1 (Episodes 5 & 6)

DIARY OF A FUTURE PRESIDENT
CBS Television Studios/Disney +, 2020
Director – Season 1 (Episode 8)

HARDBALL
Northern Pictures/ABC, 2019
Director – Season 1 (Episode 6, 8, 10)

SKIT HAPPENS (Pilot)
CJZ/Network 10, 2018
Director

THE OTHER GUY
Aquarius Films/Wooden Horse/Stan, 2017-2019
Set-up Director – Season 1 (Episodes 1-6)
Writer – Season 2 (Episodes 2, 3, 5)

WHAM BAM THANK-YOU MA’AM
ABC iview/Seeso (US), 2016-2017
Director – Season 1 (Episodes 1-6)

YOU’RE SKITTING ME
CJZ/ABC3, 2016
Set-up Director – Season 3 (Episodes 1-26)

FRAGMENTS OF FRIDAY
Endemol Australia, 2015
Producer/Creator/Writer/Director/Actor
Web series: 12 x 5 min (Episodes 1-12)

AWARDS

FRAGMENTS OF FRIDAY
Australian Director’s Guild Awards:
Best Direction in an Original Online Project, 2016

Best Ensemble Cast: Raindance Film Festival,
Buenos Aires Webfest, Online Video Awards, 2016

Best Comedy: Online Video Awards, 2016

HARDBALL
Australian Director’s Guild Awards:
Best Direction in a Children’s TV Series, 2020

EDUCATION

Australian Film Television Radio School (AFTRS) – Graduate Diploma in Directing (2011)

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) – Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film/TV (with Distinction)

OTHER

Screen Australia Talent USA delegation, 2018

Gender Matters Funding: ‘Jumper’ pilot script produced by Porchlight Films, 2016

AFTRS Foxtel Exceptional New Talent, 2011

Queensland New Filmmaker Awards: Best Producer, 2010

Queensland New Filmmaker Awards: Innovation of Form Award, 2010