Catherine Smyth-McMullen is an award-winning film and television screenwriter with a focus on genre.

Her debut feature THE OTHER LAMB, premiered at TIFF 2019 as a Special Presentation, garnering rave reviews, and subsequently screening in competition at BFI London and San Sebastian, and acclaimed genre-festival Fantastic Fest.

She has worked extensively in Australia and the U.S. as a writer, script editor and creator, and has sold and set-up pilots with Netflix, Warner Bros., NBC, AMC and eOne. She was a writer on the first season of THE SANDMAN (Netflix); a writer / consulting producer on TWO SENTENCE HORROR STORIES (The CW), also writing the pilot episode; a writer on BLOOM S2 (Stan); and wrote the original short PARKED, supported by Screen Australia and YouTube, which currently has 3.5 million views.

Catherine’s work has won or been shortlisted for many other national and international awards. She has won the John Hinde Award for Science Fiction from the Australian Writers’ Guild, the Ustinov Award for Television Writing from the International Emmys, has been nominated for two AWGIE awards from the Australian Writers’ Guild, and has been featured on the Black List, the Hit List and the Blood List for her original scripts.

She is currently in development on multiple projects, including original horror film NEST; as a co-creator of TWISTED, an adaption of the short stories of iconic Australian author Paul Jennings; and an adaptation of a romantasy series for Warner Brothers and Netflix.