Weirdly Human Worlds, Made with Weirdly Human Words.
I write grimey little TV stories, etched with the humor that comes with being a perpetual shit-magnet.
Now writing
Humans of Spoonbill Cove
Still / 04Community · Chaos · Change
01 / Selected work
Projects
Original screenplays and stories in progress. Select a title to see the note behind it.
Three stories
One point of view
01 / 3
Inn Like Flynn
02 / On the page
Coming Soon
Stories taking shape between my tech job and vaguely hysterical outbursts.
Uncle Giant
TV PILOT · Drafting
Hank Wants To Die
FEATURE SCREENPLAY · Drafting
Improv is for Losers
TV PILOT · Drafting
Writer's desk06:42 AM
03 / The person behind the pages
About Me
Subtext is everything.
Catie McHugh is an Australian comedy writer and tech communications strategist who has spent the last eight years translating the high-stakes paranoia of cybersecurity into something resembling human speech. This daily immersion in corporate absurdity serves as the primary engine for her scripted work: grounded, cheeky, and unapologetically crass.
With a Bachelor of Media (Screenwriting) from Macquarie University and a "just enough to be dangerous" cybersecurity certification, Catie specializes in characters who, much like herself, are kind but definitely not "nice." Her work focuses on pushing boundaries through the lens of the bizarre, real-world situations that tend to follow her around.In 2026, she was selected by Australians in Film to join a US TV writer's room, under the guidance of showrunner Sam Laybourne. It was one of the great honors of her life.