Cat Girczyc is an SFF writer who works in prose and screenwriting. Her paid creative writing has been mostly science-fiction and fantasy. A Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) member, she’s written many TV episodes from women’s legal drama to dark fantasy TV series as well as animation. She’s sold short stories and poems in the science fiction and fantasy markets and is a SFWA member. She’s now writing prose and television projects while working as a corporate communications manager.
2022 – She’s writing the treatment and script for “Deal” a new movie project. In 2021 she wrote “Garden Variety Aliens” which she is pitching this year. In 2020 she wrote “Lights, Camera, Paranormal Action!” from her #FromOurDarkSide competition win. She will be pitching these three projects, plus her script based on her award winning story “Some Thing” in June 2022 at the Banff World Media Festival.
Scripts and specs available upon request.
Also an SF fan, she’s a two-time Aurora winner, for hosting an SF radio show, and editing a fanzine. She was a recent Aurora nominee for a poem, “Card” in 2018.
The AURORAs are the annual Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association national awards.
Cat Girczyc SFF writer Television Career
She wrote episodes for two one hour dramas: Just Cause (WTN), The Collector, (SPACE). She was story consultant and wrote episodes for a season of True Pulp Murder (MysteryTV).
Cat Girczyc has often worked as a professional television writer with fifteen produced TV scripts to her credit. Most of these scripts have been on Canadian television with some international distribution.
She is an active member of the Writers Guild of Canada (WGC), Canada’s professional screenwriting organization. She has participated as a mentor for the WGC in a diversity program offered to new writers, mentoring a woman writer on her pilot for a TV series.
As well as being a TV writer, Catherine previously worked in several other production capacities: script consultant, associate producer, story coordinator, production coordinator, writer’s assistant, footage buyer, researcher.
If you’d like to read a sample screenplay, see the link below and email for the password. https://catscreenwriting.com/about/work-samples/
