Cassie Pappas is an American television writer, screenwriter and playwright. She has worked on the Apple TV+ dystopian drama Silo (TV series), the Netflix crime drama Griselda (miniseries), the FX drama series Tyrant and the Showtime series The L Word. She is currently working on the upcoming Netflix series Hatching Twitter based on the book by Nick Bilton.
Pappas played basketball at Mater Dei High School where they won two state championships.[1] Pappas went on to play at Butler University in Indianapolis, IN before transferring to The University of Texas where she studied playwriting.
Some of Pappas' earlier writing credits include, Ride, a biopic about astronaut Sally Ride for Lionsgate.[2] She wrote MGM's remake of the 1980s cult classic Road House starring Ronda Rousey.[3] She also developed a limited drama series about a Texas female rodeo in the 1940s for Amazon produced by Jill Soloway (Transparent).[4] [5]
Other writing credits include the CBS drama Hostages and the MTV comedy Awkward. In 2011, she wrote Dreamhouse a single-camera comedy for Fox with 3 Arts Entertainment producing.[6] The following year she penned 20s vs 30s, a semi-autobiographical comedy based on her relationship with her sister for ABC.[7]
Pappas wrote and performed in the Off-Broadway production of Pieces (of Ass) at the New World Stages in New York and Raleigh Studios in Los Angeles.[8] She also wrote and directed the play Colin Grey at The Kennedy Center American Theatre Festival.
| Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Writer | Producer | ||||
| 2011 | Awkward | Wrote 2 episodes | |||
| 2013 | Hostages | "The Good Reason" | |||
| 2015 | Tyrant | Co-wrote 2 episodes | |||
| 2016 | The Catch | Executive story editor[9] | |||
| 2020 | Interrogation | Consulting producer, wrote "Det. Dave Russell vs Chris Keller 1983" | |||
| 2023 | Silo | Co-executive producer, co-wrote "Holston's Pick" | |||
| 2023 | Griselda | Co-executive producer, co-wrote episode 2[10] | |||
| 2024 | Road House | Additional literary material[11] | |||