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Kate Scott

Writer, Children's, Preschool, 6+ years, Animation, Live Action, Head Writer, Series Developer - Childrens, Live Action and Animation

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

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Kate Scott is a scriptwriter, playwright, poet and award-winning children’s author. She has worked as a script editor on The Hive (Disney, S2), on the live-action show Dog Years, and on the film The Christmas Letter (narrated by Kate Winslet). Her children’s television writing credits include Chip and Potato, Superbuilders, Big and Small, Chuggington, Toot the Tiny Tugboat, The Hive, Minibods and Tulipop. Recent projects include developing a show to commissioned status with CBeebies with Blue Zoo and writing the script for one of the Big Picture Shows at Imperial War Museum North.

She is currently the Head Writer for a 52-episode animation series for Sky Kids. Kate’s stage plays have been performed in the Salisbury Fringe Festival, the Salisbury Playhouse Studio and the Pleasance Theatre, London. Her radio plays have been long- and shortlisted for various prizes, including the Nick Darke Award. She is also a published poet regularly heard on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Poetry Please’ and has had two short stories produced for radio. Her children’s books have won awards and been translated into several languages. Her book writing is represented by (https://evewhite.co.uk/authors/kate-scott/).
Eve White Literary Agency.

Work

Current

Happy Town
Sky Kids

Head writing on a new 52-episode animation series for Sky Kids

Television

Tulipop S2, S3, S4 (2020-2023)
Tulipop

13 scripts and two script polishes across three seasons.

Minibods (2022-2023)
Moonbug Entertainment / One Animation

Wrote 7′ episodes for brand new non-verbal preschool animation series

Mojo Swoptops (2022)
Blue-Zoo Studios / CBeebies

Developed this upcoming IP project to commissioned status with CBeebies

Title TBA (2022)
Lupus Films

Story Editor and Script Writer for a new pre-school show

Go Buster (2020-2021)
Moonbug

Wrote shortform content

Playtime with Twinkle (2020-2021)
Moonbug

Wrote shortform content

Dr Panda (Series 2) (2019-2020)
Dr Panda Productions

Wrote 10 episodes of Series 2 of this animated series based on the popular online games. Also writing and script editing online shortform content for the brand.

Chip & Potato (Series 3) (2019-2020)
Darrall Macqueen / Netflix

One 11′ episode on Series 3, available on Netflix from 8th March

The Christmas Letter (2019)
Lupus Films

Script Editor on this animated Christmas special, narrated by Kate Winslet. Read more here.

Boxania (2019-2020)
Lil Critter Workshop

Commissioned to write the pilot episode for a new pre-school show.

Dr Panda (2019)
Dr Panda Productions

Episodes of a new animated series based on the popular online games. Also writing and script editing online shortform content for the brand.

Dog Years (2019)
Dog Years Ltd

Writing and script editing episodes for this live-action series, based on an original idea by Danny Stack and Tim Clague.

Superbuilders (Series 2) (2018-2019)
Something Big / Planet Nemo

Commissioned to write episodes for this pre-school animated series.

The Hive (Series 2) (2015-2016)
Lupus Films

9 scripts

Also the Script Editor for the series

Toot the Tiny Tugboat (2014)
Lupus Films

9 scripts

Chuggington (2011-2013)
Ludorum

10 scripts

Big and Small (2011)
Kindle Entertainment

2 scripts

The Hive (Series 1) (2010)
Lupus Films

9 scripts

Plays

Eat

Stage Play: Rehearsed reading coming in 2025 in partnership with director Sam Holland-Bunyon.

Emma Fernsby, Times Two
The Directors' Cut Theatre Company, The Pleasance Theatre
Rehearsed reading with the Directors’ Cut Theatre Company at The Pleasance Theatre, London, December 2016
Mark’s Collected Silences (2015)

Radio play

  • Finalist in the inaugural Channel 4 Screenwriting Competition
  • Shortlisted for the Mind Engagement Media Prize 2013
  • Stage play version performed as a rehearsed reading at Salisbury Playhouse Studio, June 2014
  • Elected for HighTide playwriting workshop at Bristol Old Vic, February 2015
Glorious (2014)

Stage play

  • Excerpt performed as a rehearsed reading at Salisbury Arts Centre, April 2014
Wire (2014)

Stage play

  • Salisbury Fringe Festival 2014
Emma Fernsby, Times Two (2014)

Stage Play

  • Longlisted in Writersroom Scriptroom 10 (2016)
  • Salisbury Fringe Festival 2014
Voice (2013)

Radio play

  • Shortlisted for the Nick Darke Award, 2011
  • Longlisted for the BBC Writer’s Prize 2013

Exhibitions

Big Picture Show (2022)
Imperial War Museum North

Wrote the script for the new ‘Animals and War’ Big Picture Show screened at the IWM North daily at 11am.