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, and has written and directed plays for Scottish theatre companies Vanishing Point and A Play, A Pie and A Pint.

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. She also developed a TV pilot treatment through Pirate Productions’ writers cohort 2025/26.