WRITER | DIRECTOR
STAGE + SCREEN

Actor/writer/director/producer Harvey Zielinski has consistently been recognised as one of Australia’s brightest emerging talents. Harvey is a two-time Heath Ledger Scholarship finalist (top 10, 2018 and top 6, 2021), a Casting Guild of Australia Rising Star Award recipient (2018), and was the Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre graduate ensemble member for 2018. As an actor, Harvey has worked for legendary directors such as Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight) and Emma Freeman (The Newsreader) and opposite stars such as Don Cheadle (Avengers), Emily Mortimer (Mary Poppins Returns), Markella Kavenagh (The Lord of the Rings: The Ring of Power), Bojana Novakovic (I, Tonya) and Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd).

Harvey is best known as series lead Abel in Catherine Hardwicke’s (Twilight) sci-fi series Don’t Look Deeper, and as Gez Rahme in Amazon Prime original comedy series Deadloch (from comedy duo Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan). Other screen credits include Love Me (Warner Bros), Spreadsheet (Paramount+), Metrosexual (9Now), My First Summer (STAN), Why Are You Like This (ABC/Netflix) and Get Krack!n (ABC).

Harvey’s stage credits include Malthouse Theatre Company’s production Because the Night (Matt Lutton), cavemxn (Anthropocene Theatre Company), Suddenly Last Summer (Red Stitch), The Antipodes (Red Stitch) and Hir (Red Stitch).

Harvey’s screenwriting has been supported by ABC’s Fresh Start Fund, Imagine Impact, Screen Australia, the VicScreen/Arenamedia/Screen Aus/SBS ‘Originate’ program and the 17th Annual Ontario Creates Film Financing Forum at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2022. He is a Malthouse Theatre commissioned playwright and part of the writing team for a greenlit comedy series. Harvey was the director’s attachment for The Newsreader S2 (Emma Freeman) and the Assistant Director for Right Now (Red Stitch). Harvey’s debut feature film Sweet Milk Lake was recently fully financed and greenlit by the inaugural Originate Features initiative, a partnership between VicScreen, SBS, Arenamedia and Screen Australia. Harvey is the writer, director and lead actor of Sweet Milk Lake.

Harvey is represented by Mollison Keightley Management in Australia and both Artists First and Felker Toczek Suddelson Abramson Law in the US. He holds O1 visa status for the USA.

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