tricia fish

TRICIA FISH is a writer, producer, and executive consultant in film and television with over twenty years’ experience in comedy and drama.

Tricia was recently nominated for a 2024 Writers’ Guild of Canada Comedy Award for her work on the Peabody-awarded series Sort Of (CBC/HBOMax, created by Fab Filippo and Bilal Baig, produced by Sphere Media), and was thrilled to write an episode of Small Achievable Goals (CBC), the comedy series created by Baroness Von Sketch Show performers Meredith MacNeil and Jen Whalen.

Tricia’s original breakthrough was New Waterford Girl, the feature inspired by growing up in the small mining town in Cape Breton. The film featured newcomer Liana Balaban and a roster of the Maritime’s finest actors, as well as Andrew McArthy, as teacher Cecil Sweeney. The female buddy comedy about lust and escape, produced by Sienna Films’ Jennifer Kawaja and Julia Sereny and directed by Allan Moyle, premiered at Sundance and TIFF, and went on to break domestic box office records. Fish was a Variety “Top Ten Writer to Watch”. NWG was nominated for seven Canadian Screen Awards and earned broad critical praise including in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Variety, and Canada’s national press. NWG has since become a Canadian classic.

Tricia has since written comedy and drama for a wide variety of formats, networks, production companies, and streamers such as CBC, BBC, Netflix, Global, HBOMax, etc. writing comedy, drama, animation, documentary narration, docudrama to teen dance and music series.

Fish was educated at the Ontario College of Art and Design University and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and is an alumni of the Canadian Film Centre’s Writing Program. She has served as an advisor or juror for Telefilm, the CFC, on national film festivals and conferences, and the Heritage Minister’s Advisory Panel on Film. She has received Canada Council grants for her work in film and writing, and an Ontario Arts Council grant for a short story collection.

Tricia mentors emerging writers through her screenwriting courses at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies.

Tricia Fish lives and works between Toronto/Tkaronto and Lunenburg/E’se’katik.