Kate McCartney

Kate McCartney
BornPerth, Australia
MediumStand-up comedian, writer, actor, illustrator
NationalityAustralian
Genresobservational comedy, character comedy, parody and satire
Partner(s)Sally Rugg (2022–present; engaged)
Children1
Notable works and roles
The Katering Show
Get Krack!n
Deadloch

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.

Early and personal life

She 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

McCartney 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

  1. ^ Northover, Kylie (21 August 2017). "Lunch with Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
  2. ^ Rocca, Jane. "It Takes Two: Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney". HarpersBazaar. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Sally Rugg [@sallyrugg] (3 January 2022). "IMPORTANT RETRACTION TO MY 2019 MEMOIR" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Cain, Sian (26 May 2023). "'We invoked Shakespeare': Kates McLennan and McCartney on explaining Australian swearing to Amazon". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
  7. ^ "Deadloch: The Kates are back with 'feminist, noir, crime comedy'". The New Daily. 8 May 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
  8. ^ Swift, Brendan (26 September 2011). "AWGIE Award Winners Announced". IF. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ Rugendyke, Louise (8 May 2021). "'That's enough from us': What the Get Krackin' team did next". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ "Deadloch, Wellmania and the Matildas: the best Australian television of 2023". The Guardian. 28 December 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
  15. ^ Cain, Sian (8 December 2023). "Aacta awards 2024: The Newsreader, Deadloch and Colin from Accounts lead TV nominations". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
  16. ^ Perry, Kevin (9 February 2024). "DEADLOCH, THE LOST FLOWERS OF ALICE HART Triumph at 2024 AACTA Awards". TV Black Box. Retrieved 11 February 2024.