Catriona MacLeod

Cat is proudly from the Isle of Mull and now based in Glasgow, where she works across theatre and film. With a background in writing, directing, performing and self-producing, she 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 2028. She wrote and directed SPIN! with Vanishing Point as their Associate Director, and her second play Blast Off, Starburst ran at A Play, A Pie and A Pint last November. She is currently Artistic Director and Executive Producer of _and friends, a live performance and artist development initiative. They run scratch nights of brand new performance in Glasgow and manage a rehearsal and co-working space in Glasgow’s city centre. In film, she's 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 her first short film Little Lark through GMAC Film's Little Pictures scheme in 2021. She 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.