CATRIONA MACLEOD

Hello

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I'm Cat, an award-winning writer, director, performer and producer from the Isle of Mull now based in Glasgow, where I works across theatre and film. With a background in writing, directing, performing and self-producing, I created solo cabaret as Cat Loud, winning a Vault Festival Award for Outstanding New Work for apocalypse cabaret To the End of the World! in 2018. I wrote and directed SPIN! with Vanishing Point as their Associate Director, and my second play Blast Off, Starburst ran at A Play, A Pie and A Pint last November. 

 

I am currently Artistic Director and Executive Producer of _and friends, a live performance and artist development initiative. We run scratch nights of brand new performance in Glasgow and manage a rehearsal and co-working space in Glasgow’s city centre.

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For the next few months, I'll be developing an idea for TV as part of Pirate Production's Pirate Writers scheme.

 

In film, I've been a Short Circuit Convergence screenwriter, a Glasgow Film Festival New Talent mentee, represented Scotland at the CineSud Director's Village filmmakers residency in the Netherlands, and was commissioned to make my first short film Little Lark through GMAC Film's Little Pictures scheme in 2021. I was one of the inaugural participants of the Sean Connery Talent Lab with NFTS, directing Gaelic-English bilingual short Lady MacLean which was nominated for The List’s Festival Award for Best Scottish Film in 2025.

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It's an exciting and terrifying time to be trying to make art, but here we are.

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Love and solidarity.

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Cat

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