Cat Dale

Cat Dale is a writer and director working on narrative projects focused on institutional trauma and gender perceptions. Her work includes her award-winning scripts, MOUNT PLEASANT (winner of the ScreenCraft Pilot Launch, Featured Script on The Black List, and second-round for the Sundance Episodic Lab), and co-written script BEASTS UNDISCOVERED (Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist & is being produced in partnership with the Jim Henson Creature Shop & Myriad Pictures). Her two award-winning short films (RUBBER & GLUE and WILDCAT) have screened both nationally and internationally. She participated in The Black List & Studio Canal CANNESFILM UNLIMITED writing residency. She is a second-round script reader for the Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, reader for Stowe Story Labs, and was on the Sidewrite Screenwriting Jury for the Sidewalk Film Festival. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin MFA in screenwriting, she is a professor at the Montana State University.