---
name: "Carson D. Mell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/carson-d-mell"
fi1m_id: "carson-d-mell"
imdb_id: "nm2492376"
tmdb_id: 1122300
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T17:13:04.866772+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Carson D. Mell

## Identity

Carson D. Mell

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/carson-d-mell
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** carson-d-mell
- **IMDb ID:** nm2492376
- **TMDB ID:** 1122300
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2492376/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1122300

Writer. Born in Arizona.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Active:** 2014–present
- **Also known as:** Carson Mell
- **Frequently works with:** [Graham Wagner](https://film.one/person/graham-wagner.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 81, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 82 (1), 2020s 80 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2492376/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1122300

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Silicon Valley*](https://film.one/tv/silicon-valley.md) (82)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Fallout*](https://film.one/tv/fallout.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Carson Mell is a writer, producer and director. Born in Arizona in 1980, he moved to Los Angeles in 2002 to work in film and television. He attended the Sundance Writing & Directing Labs in 2012.

His television credits include writing for *Eastbound & Down* (2013), *Silicon Valley* (2014–2019), where he also worked as story editor and consulting producer, *Room 104* (2017), *Tarantula* (2017), which he created, *Fired on Mars* (2023) and *Fallout* (2024).

Mell wrote and directed the features *Another Evil* (2016) and *Some of Our Stallions* (2021). He co-wrote *The Long Dumb Road* (2018). Several of his short films were selected for the Sundance Film Festival.

*Sources: imdb.com, wealthsimple.com, vice.com, fallout.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Fallout* (2024), Fi1m 80, Writer, Co-Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/fallout.md)
- *Silicon Valley* (2014), Fi1m 82, Executive Story Editor, Writer, Story Editor — [page](https://film.one/tv/silicon-valley.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Fallout* (2024), series, Co-Executive Producer, Writer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/fallout.md)
- *Fired on Mars* (2023), series, as Sluggo Buchinsky (voice) · Executive Producer, Writer
- *Some of Our Stallions* (2021), as Beautiful Bill · Director
- *The Long Dumb Road* (2018), Writer
- *Tarantula* (2017), series, as Echo Johnson (voice) · Executive Producer, Creator
- *Room 104* (2017), series, Writer
- *Another Evil* (2016), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Hang Loose* (2015), Actor
- *The Diary of a Teenage Girl* (2015), as Michael Cocaine
- *Silicon Valley* (2014), series, as Coder · Writer, Story Editor, Executive Story Editor — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/silicon-valley.md)
- *The Snake Mountain Colada* (2009), as Open Chested Fellow
- *Field Notes from Dimension X: Oasis* (2009), Writer, Director
- *The Writer* (2008), Director

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