Writer
Kathrine Smith has written for many TV series including Silent Witness, London Kills, Suspects, and Eastenders, and for the Radio 4 series Fault Lines starring Glenda Jackson. Her award-winning play All I See Is You toured nationally and internationally to Ireland and Australia. Kathrine was selected for Sphinx 30 – an Arts Council programme to support women playwrights create new work for the main stage. She has also taught on arts projects in prisons and is a volunteer playwright/dramaturg with the children’s charity Scene & Heard.
Writing 2×60′ episodes of crime drama for broadcast 2025
1×45′ episode of crime drama
3×60′ episodes
4×30′ episodes
5×60′ episodes across 4 series
1×50′ episode
20×30′ episodes
24/60′ episodes including Jim Carver’s leaving special
1×30′ episode
2×50′ episodes
1×30′ episode
1×60′ episode
Original 45′ play – Episode two of ‘Fault Lines: Blood’ starring Glenda Jackson & Robert Glenister, directed by Pauline Harris. Broadcast 19th January 2022.
Original 45′ play – Episode one of ‘Fault Lines: Sex’ starring Glenda Jackson, T’nia Miller & Nina Anwar, directed by Pauline Harris. Broadcast 10th October 2020.
A play inspired by a time in the 1980s when across the UK lesbian mums were branded deviant by the courts and routinely denied custody of their children. Seed commission and rehearsed reading.
A play inspired by real accounts of queer life from the 1960s. First performed at The Octagon, Bolton in 2018. Toured nationally, and to Dublin, Sydney and Melbourne in 2019.
Awards:
– National Octagon Prize
– Oscar Wilde prize for Best New Writing at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival 2019
– Micheál Mac Liammóir Award for Outstanding Performances
– Brighton Fringe International Touring Award
Nominated for the Sydney Fringe Best Theatre Award
A play exploring girl-on-girl knife crime based on the true events that led to the murder of 15-year-old Charlotte Foley at an East London party in 2005.
Original series format and plot episode
Original historical series format and treatment
| Current | ||
|---|---|---|
| Production | Company | Notes |
| Silent Witness S28 | BBC | Writing 2×60′ episodes of crime drama for broadcast 2025 |
| Television | ||
|---|---|---|
| Production | Company | Notes |
| London Kills S4 | PGM TV/Acorn TV/BBC | 1×45′ episode of crime drama |
| Holby City | BBC | 3×60′ episodes |
| EastEnders | BBC | 4×30′ episodes |
| Suspects | Newman Street/C5 | 5×60′ episodes across 4 series |
| Casualty | BBC | 1×50′ episode |
| Hollyoaks | Lime Pictures/C4 | 20×30′ episodes |
| The Bill | Talkback Thames/ITV | 24/60′ episodes including Jim Carver’s leaving special |
| EastEnders | BBC | 1×30′ episode |
| Casualty | BBC | 2×50′ episodes |
| Doctors | BBC | 1×30′ episode |
| Dangerfield | BBC | 1×60′ episode |
| Radio | ||
|---|---|---|
| Production | Company | Notes |
| Between Two Worlds | BBC Radio 4 | Original 45′ play – Episode two of ‘Fault Lines: Blood’ starring Glenda Jackson & Robert Glenister, directed by Pauline Harris. Broadcast 19th January 2022. |
| Winter Jasmine | BBC Radio 4 | Original 45′ play – Episode one of ‘Fault Lines: Sex’ starring Glenda Jackson, T’nia Miller & Nina Anwar, directed by Pauline Harris. Broadcast 10th October 2020. |
| Theatre/Development | ||
|---|---|---|
| Production | Company | Notes |
| You to Me (Sphinx 30) | Sphinx Theatre Company | A play inspired by a time in the 1980s when across the UK lesbian mums were branded deviant by the courts and routinely denied custody of their children. Seed commission and rehearsed reading. |
| All I See is You | Octagon Theatre, Bolton | A play inspired by real accounts of queer life from the 1960s. First performed at The Octagon, Bolton in 2018. Toured nationally, and to Dublin, Sydney and Melbourne in 2019. Awards: Nominated for the Sydney Fringe Best Theatre Award |
| Unprovoked | The Forgiveness Project in association with the Met Police & Roundhouse, Camden | A play exploring girl-on-girl knife crime based on the true events that led to the murder of 15-year-old Charlotte Foley at an East London party in 2005. |
| Morphology | Keshet UK | Original series format and plot episode |
| Holloway | Long Story TV | Original historical series format and treatment |