Alyssa McClelland

Alyssa McClelland is an internationally acclaimed director of film, television and commercials.

She most recently was set up director of EVERYTHING NOW starring Sophie Wilde and Stephen Fry for Left Bank Pictures, along with directing several episodes and the finale of International Emmy award-winning SEX EDUCATION for Eleven Film. Both shows were distributed worldwide by Netflix.

She is now the lead director of AMANDALAND, the critically acclaimed MOTHERLAND spin-off for Merman and BBC.

Alyssa wrote and directed the short film SECOND BEST. After a successful international run, the film won the Australian Director’s Guild Award for Best Direction in a Short Film as well as best short film at Flickerfest, the Milan International Film Festival and the Sydney Film Festival. She also directed and co-wrote the two seasons of Funny or Die’s cult web series ONE STEP CLOSER TO HOME.

In commercials, Alyssa won the coveted Black Pencil at the D&AD Awards and the award for Direction at the London International Awards.

She has a degree in Media Arts and Production from the University of Technology in Sydney where she majored in Directing. A scholarship from the Australian Theatre for Young People led her to study at the Atlantic Theater Company in New York in the technique of Practical Aesthetics – a course developed by David Mamet and William H. Macy. Alyssa was also a recipient of the InStyle Magazine Woman of Style Scholarship for her work as a filmmaker in Australia.