Biography
Peter Mattessi is a television writer and producer. He began his career in Australia as a trainee storyliner on Neighbours, later contributing as a writer to that series and others including Home and Away and The Heights.
He moved to London in 2008, serving as script editor and later writer on EastEnders (with episodes from 2011 to 2022) and script producer on the spin-off EastEnders: E20. He also wrote for Holby City, including the episode “Rocket Man”, which won a Writers’ Guild of Great Britain award in 2018.
Mattessi has received multiple Australian Writers’ Guild awards for serial drama. In 2023 he was elected president of the Australian Writers’ Guild. He co-created the series Return to Paradise.
