Image from January Gone - Bafta Microshort 2021 directed by Vika Evdomenko, Starring Zara Edwards, written by Catherine O’Shea
December 2024:The Entertainer has it’s London premiere as part of the MiraBan film festival. It won Best UK Feature Film and Best Actor. Screen Auteur also awarded the Audience Award.
June 2024: BTS from shoot of Digging, written by Catherine O’Shea, Directed by Mari Yamumara, Starring Quanna Luo, Lucy Sheen and Ako Mitchell. - Film coming in 2025
Best Score
June 2024 - The Entertainer wins
Also screenings at Goettingen Film Festival and Kuala Lumpur Festival
Best Feature Film
May 2024 - The Entertainer wins Best Feature Film at Brighton Rocks International Film Festival
February 2024 - Performance at Stockroom Theatre Company directed by Lilly Driscoll
DEATH CLOAK, a pilot script Catherine co-wrote with Markus Meedt has been selected as a quarter-finalist in Final Draft’s BIG BREAK SCREENWRITING CONTEST 2023
Capture Her - Best Comedy
Co-written with Abbie Lucas, Director
Screenplays shortlisted on Coverfly
A tv pilot script Catherine co-wrote with Markus Meedt has been selected as a winner at the Drama Film and Writing Festival in Toronto. It had a reading at the festival and they described it as 'already one of the best specs out there'.
After two years in BFI Network x BAFTA Crew in September 2022 Catherine was accepted as a BAFTA Connect Member
Principal photography complete on… TRAINING MONTAGE
Starring @antonia.tootill @hey.aurely
Script by @catherineosheawriter Directed by @abbielucas
DOP @willtaylorpoole 1st AD @gillian.harker
Watch the trailer for Capture Her a short film co-written with Abbie Lucas which was featured in the Pinewood Studios Lift-Off Global Network in February 2023 and was screened as part of Film Tottenham May 2023.
Capture Her was screened at the Courtyard Cinema in April 2022, at the Lexi Cinema in December 2022 and at the Lift Off Global Network sessions in 2023.
Catherine is a co-writer on The Entertainer, a feature film starring Alex Arnold, Fanta Barrie, Florence Keith Roach, Mehdi Mezkar and Jake Davies and directed by David Clay Diaz. Coming in 2023
In September 2021 Catherine’s short January Gone produced by BAFTA microshorts was accepted into the Berlin Flash Film Festival.
In January Catherine was accepted into BFI Network x BAFTA Crew 2021 as a screenwriter.
In June 2020 Catherine’s play Milton Keynes State of Mind was performed as part of the Around the Globe in 80 Days Play Festival (raising money for the Globe Theatre) and was featured in Lights Down Productions showcase:
Throughout the 90s Kylie and Michelle performed in a band together at Milton Keynes gig venue 'The Pitz'. As teenagers, they bonded through a love of music and shared everything. Ten years later Michelle is staying with Kylie for the weekend and growing resentments surface. Cast: Moureen Louie: Kylie Gracie Lai: Michelle Writer: Catherine O'Shea Director: Sophie Flack Additional Editing: Kristian Mitchell-Dolby Producer: Lights Down Productions
In July 2020 Catherine was interviewed by Stage Launch :
SHARDS REVIEWS - Camden People’s Theatre
Shards is an exciting story of swing dancing, dating and particle physics.
Selina Begum, The Upcoming *****
Lyn Gardner - Pick of the week 15 August 2019 · Follow on Stagedoor
“There is still plenty on offer at the Camden Fringe. While a great deal of it is very much an unknown quantity, it’s a chance to take a punt and hope for a delightful discovery at any of the many host venues across the city. It may be called the Camden Fringe but its scope extends way beyond the borough. A show with lindy hop dancing sounds fine by me and that is what Shards offers in a four-hander about love, loss, swing dancing and particle physics.”
Always Time for Theatre Interview with the creative team
Catherine O'Shea's two interactive play John Simmonds; A Trafalgar Journey and Tamera the Time Traveller are on at the National Maritime Museum every month. Performance starts from the Sammy Ofer Wing.
Reviews for Transient Pleasance edfringe Pleasance Undergrand:
“A thought-provoking piece from this young company which incorporates elements of dance into its dreamlike passage and makes excellent use of the found space”- The Stage
“this is a fragmentary, fragile and promising piece of work that combines text and movement to good effect, creating an elegy for small people casually swept aside by history” – Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
“an amazing theatrical experience that is profoundly affective…” -Three Weeks
“a cold shiver runs down your spine and stays there long afterwards” - The Scotsman
Reviews Fit for Purpose edfringe Pleasance:
“It is not just the asylum system that is not “fit for purpose”, O'Shea suggests; the failure to treat refugees humanely represents Britain's betrayal of its own values and identity”. – The Lancet
“Fit For Purpose is truly eye-opening for all who are unfamiliar with the way asylum seekers are treated in this country. It is a strong and fluid production, effectively executed by the charity End Child Detention Now. Undoubtedly the most insightful part of this production is the plot. Like the pages of a book it unfolds before your eyes, as the layers of involvement personalise each of the characters” – Broadway Baby
“the most potent and moving confrontation is not physical but emotional trauma, sensitively conveyed. Fit for Purpose is to be commended for its willingness to confront us with the most unsettling aspects of how the British state polices its borders. And the narrative, despite this, is subtle: unravelling stories at a pace which creeps up on you” – Ceasefire Magazine