Kate McCartney is an Australian comedian, writer, actor and illustrator. She is a frequent collaborator with Kate McLennan, which has led to their being dubbed the Kates.
| Kate McCartney | |
|---|---|
| Born | Perth, Australia |
| Medium | Stand-up comedian, writer, actor, illustrator |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Genres | observational comedy, character comedy, parody and satire |
| Partner(s) | Sally Rugg (2022–present; engaged) |
| Children | 1 |
| Notable works and roles | The Katering Show Get Krack!n Deadloch |
Early and personal life
editShe was born in Perth, moved to Sydney but grew up in Camberwell, Victoria. She later moved to the Melbourne suburb Preston and had a daughter, Millie, in early 2015.[1][2][3] In 2022, she became engaged to Sally Rugg.[4]
Career
editMcCartney worked as a comedian and also worked in animation. Her television writing credits have included Big Bite, Hamish & Andy, Adam Hills Tonight and Spicks and Specks.[5]
She met Kate McLennan in 2011 after McLennan voiced a character in an animation for her.[6] Due to the number of subsequent collaborations with McLennan, the pair have been dubbed the Kates in the media.[7]
McCartney co-created the web series Bleak with McLennan in 2010, about being a single 30-something, which won the Kit Denton Disfellowship for Courage and Excellence in Performance Writing at the 2011 AWGIE Awards, worth A$30,000.[8]
With McLennan, she created a cooking-based web series called The Katering Show which screened initially on their YouTube channel in 2014. A second season of The Katering Show was screened on the ABC TV and then on ABC iview in 2016.[9][10]
In 2017, McCartney collaborated with McLennan for ABC Television to create the comedy Get Krack!n, in which they played breakfast show television presenters.[11]
In 2021, they created Slushy, a workplace comedy set in the Australian Antarctic research base, that was available as a podcast on Audible.[12]
McCartney and McLennan wrote the 2023 Amazon Prime Video series Deadloch starring Kate Box,[13] which garnered positive reviews,[14] and won McCartney a Best Television Script Writing Award and Box a Best Actress Award, at the AACTA Awards in February 2024.[15][16]
References
edit- ^ Northover, Kylie (21 August 2017). "Lunch with Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ^ Rocca, Jane. "It Takes Two: Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney". HarpersBazaar. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ^ Ward, Sarah (5 June 2023). "How Australia's Comedy Queens Made "Funny Broadchurch": Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney Talk 'Deadloch'". Concrete Playground. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ^ Sally Rugg [@sallyrugg] (3 January 2022). "IMPORTANT RETRACTION TO MY 2019 MEMOIR" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ Brookfield, Joanne (27 January 2019). "Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney on the second season of Get Krack!n". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ^ Cain, Sian (26 May 2023). "'We invoked Shakespeare': Kates McLennan and McCartney on explaining Australian swearing to Amazon". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ^ "Deadloch: The Kates are back with 'feminist, noir, crime comedy'". The New Daily. 8 May 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ^ Swift, Brendan (26 September 2011). "AWGIE Award Winners Announced". IF. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ^ Valentish, Jenny (27 August 2017). "Get Krack!n: how The Katering Show's comedic duo are skewering morning TV". the Guardian. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ^ Buckmaster, Luke (30 August 2017). "Get Krack!n review – Katering Show Kates face-plant uproariously into milieu of breakfast TV". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ^ Moran, Rob (16 February 2017). "The Katering Show's Kates to tackle breakfast TV in new ABC series Get Krack!n". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ^ Rugendyke, Louise (8 May 2021). "'That's enough from us': What the Get Krackin' team did next". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ^ Northover, Kylie (18 May 2023). "The Kates' mystery opens with a dead body - but not what you expect". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
- ^ "Deadloch, Wellmania and the Matildas: the best Australian television of 2023". The Guardian. 28 December 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ^ Cain, Sian (8 December 2023). "Aacta awards 2024: The Newsreader, Deadloch and Colin from Accounts lead TV nominations". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ^ Perry, Kevin (9 February 2024). "DEADLOCH, THE LOST FLOWERS OF ALICE HART Triumph at 2024 AACTA Awards". TV Black Box. Retrieved 11 February 2024.