Kathryn Burnett

Kathryn is an award-winning screenwriter and playwright who has significant credits for both stage and screen. Her television writing credits including 'Under The Vines', 'My Life is Murder', 'Fresh Eggs' and 'The Tender Trap' for which she won Best Drama Script at the 2021 NZ TV Awards with co-writer Riwia Brown. 
Mike & Virginia (produced by Burnett) was co-written with Nick Ward in 2011, as part of the International Comedy Festival and it was subsequently produced in Wellington at Circa Theatre (2013). Mike & Virginia won SWANZ Best Play in 2012. 
 
Her play Bowled Over was produced in 2013 by the Auckland Theatre Company, as part of the Auckland Arts Festival. In 2016 Burnett took her turn in the spotlight, as one of nine women telling stories from their own life, for comedy show Dialogue: Mum's the Word.
In 2017 her five hander comedy The Campervan was shortlisted for the Adam NZ Play Award and enjoyed a sell-out premiere season with Tadpole Productions at the Pumphouse Theatre in 2022. In 2023 a critically acclaimed season of Mike & Virginia was also produced by Tadpole.
She is the playwright behind the one-woman comedy Nicola Cheeseman is Back which was shortlisted for the NZ Adam Play Award in 2023 and enjoyed a premiere season at the Herald Theatre (Plumb Theatre) in June 2024. 
 
In 2023 she wrote “The Productive Writer Guidebook,” and was published in the horror anthology Remains to Be Told:Dark Tales of Aotearoa (Clandestine Press).
 
When she isn't writing, Kathryn works as a writing coach, script consultant and workshop facilitator.