Catherine Tregenna
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Catherine Tregenna is a Welsh playwright, television screenwriter and actress. She has written episodes for EastEnders, Casualty and for the first four series of ITV1 crime drama Law & Order: UK.
Career
[edit]Tregenna began as an actress. She played the character Kirsty McGurk, for several years, in Pobol Y Cwm and a doctor in Satellite City.[1]
In 2001, she wrote the comedy play Art and Guff.[2] After, she transitioned back into television as a writer, co-writing the series Cowbois ac Injans and four episodes of the BBC's science fiction drama and Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood: "Out of Time", "Captain Jack Harkness", "Meat" and "Adam". As well as writing Meat, she also created the meat props shown in the episode. "Captain Jack Harkness" was nominated for the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.[3]
She wrote The Woman Who Lived, an episode of the ninth series of Doctor Who which aired in October 2015. She contributed episodes to the third and final series of Stan Lee's Lucky Man, the third series of Riviera and the fifth episode of The Watch, which is inspired by[4] the Ankh-Morpork City Watch from the Discworld series of fantasy novels by Terry Pratchett.
References
[edit]- ^ "Satellite City Credits & Complete Character Guide". Archived from the original on 25 February 2008. Retrieved 6 April 2008.
- ^ "Details of Art and Guff from the archive of the Theatre in Wales". theatre-wales.co.uk. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
- ^ "2008 Hugo Nomination List". Denvention 3: The 66th World Science Fiction Convention. World Science Fiction Society. 2008. Archived from the original on 21 December 2008. Retrieved 21 March 2008.
- ^ "Terry Pratchett's Discworld the Watch TV Series". Discworldmonthly.co.uk. Archived from the original on 16 November 2020. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
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- British soap opera writers
- Welsh women dramatists and playwrights
- Living people
- 21st-century Welsh dramatists and playwrights
- Welsh science fiction writers
- Welsh television writers
- British women science fiction and fantasy writers
- Women soap opera writers
- British women television writers