Pirate Writers

Cat is proudly from the Isle of Mull and now based in Glasgow, where she works across theatre and film. With a background in writing, directing, performing and self-producing, she created solo cabaret as Cat Loud, winning a Vault Festival Award for Outstanding New Work for apocalypse cabaret To the End of the World! in 2028. She wrote and directed SPIN! with Vanishing Point as their Associate Director, and her second play Blast Off, Starburst ran at A Play, A Pie and A Pint last November. She is currently Artistic Director and Executive Producer of _and friends, a live performance and artist development initiative. They run scratch nights of brand new performance in Glasgow and manage a rehearsal and co-working space in Glasgow’s city centre. In film, she's been a Short Circuit Convergence screenwriter, a Glasgow Film Festival New Talent mentee, represented Scotland at the CineSud Director's Village filmmakers residency in the Netherlands, and was commissioned to make her first short film Little Lark through GMAC Film's Little Pictures scheme in 2021. She was one of the inaugural participants of the Sean Connery Talent Lab with NFTS, directing Gaelic-English bilingual short Lady MacLean which was nominated for The List’s Festival Award for Best Scottish Film in 2025.

Jasmine is an emerging screenwriter with a focus on dark comedy with deeply human, diverse characters. She started out making shorts with small production companies, and completed a filmmaking masters whilst working as a Runner, Director’s Assistant and Third AD. She won lottery funding from Creative England for her comedy short DEVIL’S IN THE DETAIL which went to several festivals. Recently, her script KISS GOODBYE got her to the final interview stages of the BBC Drama Writer’s Room, and is now optioned with a Northern production company. This summer, her script FALSE START was in the final four of Sitcom Mission, a writing competition that resulted in two performed showcases in London. Jasmine is represented by JFL Agency. She currently works in communications, whilst writing comedy scripts and developing original ideas.

Serena is a Scottish writer and performer based in Glasgow. She studied at the University of Glasgow, including advanced courses in Writing for Performance, before training at Jacques Lecoq International Theatre School in Paris. She currently writes mostly for theatre, creating work with and for young people and marginalised community groups. She is the creative director of Up and About Theatre, a multilingual children's theatre company founded in 2025, and wrote their first show 'Heebie Jeebies' which has since performed at the Edinburgh Fringe festival, Light the Blue festival, Outwith festival and various other community events around Scotland. She is thrilled to be taking her next steps into writing for film and television with Pirate Productions. She writes comedy, drama and children's entertainment and her writing style is always relatable and character led.

Tess Carruthers is a writer and performer based in Glasgow. She was a runner-up for the Funny Women Comedy Writing Award in 2020, one of six writers shortlisted for the BBC Galton and Simpson Writing Bursary, and she has also been longlisted for the Snoo Wilson Prize for Scriptwriting. In 2024, she started her Tik Tok channel ‘Tess Outdoors’ under the tagline “being silly outside,” where she makes sometimes-educational vlogs and sketches on topics like the difference between deciduous and coniferous trees. Alongside writing projects and Tik Tok, she is also developing various bits of live character comedy, mostly set in the forest.