Catherine Smyth-McMullen is an award-winning genre writer for film and television.

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 was a writer on the first season of the acclaimed comic THE SANDMAN for Netflix, writing the acclaimed anthology episode ‘Dream Of A Thousand Cats / Calliope’. On the CW’s TWO SENTENCE HORROR STORIES, Catherine served as writer and consulting producer, writing the pilot episode. In Australia, Catherine has also worked extensively in rooms and development, writing, script editing and script producing. Her original digital short PARKED was produced by Princess Pictures, and funded by Screen Australia and YouTube. She also wrote on the second season of the award-winning Australian drama series BLOOM.

Catherine’s work has won or been shortlisted for many other national and international awards. She won the John Hinde Award for Science Fiction from the Australian Writers’ Guild, the Ustinov Award for Television Writing from the International Emmys, two AWGIE award nominations, 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 her own original horror film NEST, and as a co-creator of TWISTED, an adaption of the short stories of iconic Australian author Paul Jennings.