Catherine S. McMullen is a screenwriter for film, television and virtual reality. In 2017, her feature script The Other Lamb was on the Black List, Hit List, and Blood List, as one of Hollywood’s best unproduced scripts, and is set to be directed by Malgorzata Szumowska (Mug, Body) for Rumble Films (Drive, Whiplash). She is also writing another feature for Rumble Films.
Catherine was part of the writing team on the second series of horror anthology series Two Sentence Horror Stories for Warner Brothers Digital, and has also worked extensively in Australian writers’ rooms and development. Her digital series Parked is currently in development with Princess Pictures and has been funded by Screen Australia and YouTube. Catherine she recently co-wrote a pilot which is in development with Steel Spring Pictures and Arenamedia. She also wrote Wentworth VR, the official VR adaption of award-winning TV series, and Winner of the 2018 SPA Award for Interactive Production.
Catherine’s work has won or been shortlisted for many other national and international awards. Her pilot Awake was the winner of the 2017 John Hinde Science Fiction Award for Best Unproduced Script, and received development investment from Shane Brennan’s organization Scripted Ink. Her pilot Living Metal won the 2016 International Emmys’ Ustinov Award for Television Screenwriting, and was also nominated for the 2015 Australian Writers’ Guild Monte Miller Award. Her feature screenplay Driven was a Semifinalist in the 2016 Academy Nicholl Screenwriting Awards. She was also on the 2017 Young & Hungry List of up-and-coming screenwriters, and the 2016 Inside Film List as one of the Australian screen industry’s ‘Rising Talents’.
Before becoming a screenwriter, she worked extensively as a production freelancer in various departments. Her professional credits include HBO’s The Leftovers, Syfy series Hunters and Childhood’s End, teen series Nowhere Boys, unscripted shows Real Housewives Of Melbourne and Formal Wars, and feature films Cut Snake and Paper Planes.