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Kathrine Smith

Writer - Television / Radio / Theatre

Agent: Jean Kitson - jean@kitsonpress.co.uk

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Kathrine Smith has written for many TV series including 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.

Work

Current

Silent Witness S28
BBC

Writing 2 x 60′ episodes of crime drama for broadcast 2025

Television

London Kills Series 4 (2023)
PGM TV / Acorn TV / BBC

1 x 45′ episode of crime drama.

Holby City (2017-2019)
BBC

3 x 60′ episodes

EastEnders (2016-2017)
BBC

4 x 30′ episodes

Suspects (2013-2016)
Newman Street / C5

5 x 60’ episodes across 4 series

River City (2011-2014)
BBC Scotland

9 x 60’ episodes

Casualty (2014)
BBC

1 x 50’ episode

Hollyoaks (2010-2012)
Lime Pictures / C4

20 x 30’ episodes

The Bill (1998-2006)
Talkback Thames / ITV

24 x 60’ episodes including Jim Carver’s leaving special

EastEnders (2006)
BBC

1 x 30’ episode

Casualty (2000-2001)
BBC

2 x 50’ episodes

Doctors (2000)
BBC

1 x 30’ episode

Dangerfield (1999)
BBC

1 x 60′ episode

Radio

Between Two Worlds (2022)
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 (2020)
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

You to Me (Sphinx 30) (2021)
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 (2017-2019)
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:
– 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

Unprovoked (2011)
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.

Stem Cells
Keshet UK

Original series format and pilot episode

Holloway
Long Story TV

Original historical series format and treatment

Monsters
Cliffhanger

Original crime series format and pilot script

Related to Murder
Showrunner/Endemol

Original historical series format and treatment

Stringer
Granada

Original series format and treatment

Qas Cardiff
Raw Charm/BBC Wales

Original screenplay treatment