Writer/Director, In Vitro Veritas

CATHERINE LOERKE is a doctor turned writer-director dispensing medical knowledge through story. Raised by an Irish American family in small-town Rhode Island, she was destined to write about emotionally repressed people learning to feel. She incorporates her past lives as a surgeon, management consultant, and corporate DEI expert – and current life as a person in recovery – into weird, memorable, messy characters, usually women in STEM.

As a story consultant, Cat advises on projects at Hulu, Tristar, Peacock, and Appian Way. She staffed in writers rooms for two series in development (The Film TV, Invention Studios) and was a WGAE Writers Room Fellow. She is the writer-director of SAND MAMA, an award-winning short selected by Academy Award-qualifying festivals such as Cinequest and Indy Shorts, among others.

An international woman of mystery, Cat splits time between Brooklyn and Lisbon. BA, Stanford; MD, Yale; MFA Screenwriting, Brooklyn College.

More at: www.catherineloerke.com / @catalonius