Alyssa McClelland

Alyssa McClelland is an Australian director, screenwriter, producer and former actress. She trained from age fifteen with Sydney's Australian Theatre for Young People and later studied at the Atlantic Theater Company in New York. She founded Pickled Films in 2009, and her first short, Emilia Eckle, screened at ten festivals and opened the Palm Springs Film Festival. She wrote, produced, directed and starred in the Funny or Die web series One Step Closer to Home from 2011, and her 2018 short Second Best won awards including the Dendy Live Action Short Award and best direction at Flickerfest. As an actress, she appeared in Queen of the Damned (2002), A Man's Gotta Do (2004) and Deck Dogz (2005), and earned an Australian Film Institute Award nomination for the 2005 telemovie Small Claims: White Wedding. She later directed episodes of Home and Away, finale episodes of Sex Education, and the 2025 BBC comedy Amandaland.