Bio.

Writer Catherine Loerke is a doctor-turned-writer dispensing medical knowledge through rom-com and fantasy. Cat draws on her experiences as a surgeon, management consultant, corporate DEI expert, and Hollywood assistant (yes, Mel Gibson put out cigarettes in the very coffee that she made!) when writing weird, funny, emotionally repressed characters forced by crises to get out of their heads and into their hearts.

Raised in a small Rhode Island town where everyone knew everyone’s business, she’s now an international woman of mystery splitting time between Brooklyn and Lisbon with her psychiatrist partner (other people’s, not hers!) and their 8-year-old.

Cat was recently staffed in the writers room for a series in development at The Film TV. She is a WGAE Writers Room Fellow mentored by Matt Williams (HOME IMPROVEMENT) and Script Pipeline Finalist (Top 10/5500) with her medical dramedy pilot script IN VITRO VERITAS, and a Stowe Story Labs Film Fatales Fellowship Finalist with her YA fantasy pilot SEEING RED. She is also the writer-director of the short film SAND MAMA, a NYFA Women’s Fund grant winner mentored by Alison Maclean (JESUS’ SON). SAND MAMA is an official selection of Academy Award-qualifying Cinequest, Indy Shorts, and Short Shorts Asia as well as Evolution Mallorca, Montclair, Woods Hole, Salute Your Shorts, and Coney Island Film Festivals, among others.

Produced writing includes: GEEKAWAY CAMP, a YA rom-com web series (writer/showrunner); the short film TONSURE, Audience Choice winner at Roxy Underground Film Festival curated by Amos Poe; and two tragicomic short plays commissioned by NYC-based AMiOS theatre collective.

Obsessions: YA fantasy novels, the NYT crossword, the board game Wingspan, hour-long comedies where no one dies, and fandoms of canceled shows.

Education: BA, Stanford University; MD, Yale University; MFA Screenwriting, Brooklyn College.