Tom Casiello


Tom Casiello is an American writer and former actor. Casiello has written content for three distinct entertainment genres. Casiello also acted when he was a kid in the 1988 horror film Woodchipper Massacre, directed by Jon McBride.
Casiello began his career as a soap opera writer, working on a number of shows as a staff writer.
He was then hired by WWE, where he served as the creative writer from 2011 to 2016.
In recent years, Casiello has written for Gen-Z Media, where he was head writer for Six Minutes, and its sequel, Six Minutes: Out of Time.
In 2018, Casiello joined the writing team at Respawn Entertainment and was part of the creation of the first seventeen Legends in Apex Legends. He also co-wrote the book Pathfinder's Quest, with Manny Hagopian and Ashley Reed, as well as the Dark Horse Comics mini-series, Apex Legends: Overtime.
In 2021, he became Narrative Director at Gravity Well Games, and is currently working on that studio's first game.

Positions held

Another World
  • Writers’ Intern
As the World Turns
  • Breakdown Writer
  • Assistant to the Writers
Days of Our Lives
One Life to Live
  • Breakdown Writer
  • Script Writer
The Young and the Restless
  • Breakdown Writer
  • Occasional Breakdown Writer
Apex Legends
  • Writer.
WWE
  • Creative Writer

Awards and nominations

Daytime Emmy Awards
  • NOMINATION
  • WIN
Writers Guild of America Award
  • NOMINATION