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Catherine Kelleher

Lecturer, Screenwriting

Catherine Kelleher is an AWGIE-nominated screenwriter and director. She’s worked as a script coordinator and writers’ room note-taker on series such as Glitch, Janet King, and The Secrets She Keeps. She previously worked in development at Lingo Pictures (After the Party, Upright, The Secrets She Keeps) and from 2021 to 2024 she worked as the Scripted Development Executive at SBS, assisting the commissioning team in developing Safe Home, Erotic Stories, Swift Street, Four Years Later, and the SBS Digital Originals initiative.

Catherine’s short films have screened at several local and international film festivals, and in 2020 she was selected for the Imagine Impact Australia. She has been teaching Screenwriting for the BA program at AFTRS since 2025 and is developing several film and TV projects.