Kate McLennan

Kate McLennan
Kate McLennan
Birth name	Katherine McLennan
Born	Mortlake, Victoria, Australia
Medium	Stand-up comedian, writer, actor
Nationality	Australian
Genres	observational comedy, character comedy, parody and satire
Children	1
Notable works and roles	; The Katering Show; Get Krack!n;

Kate McLennan is an Australian comedian, writer and actor. McLennan has performed in Australia and internationally, including at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She is known in Australia for her work on television and web series such as The Katering Show, Get Krack!n, and The Mansion.

Early life

McLennan moved to Geelong at the age of ten and a decade later she moved to Melbourne.[1]

Career

McLennan performed in her first sketch comedy show at the age of 21 at the 2001 Melbourne Fringe, and appeared in the Fringe parade.[1]

She rose to fame writing and performing her solo comedy show The Debutante Diaries, which won her the Best Comedy Award and Best Emerging Artist Award at the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2006. [2]

McLennan co-created the web series Bleak with Kate McCartney in 2010, which in won the Kit Denton Disfellowship for Courage and Excellence in Performance Writing at the 2011 AWGIE Awards, worth A$30,000.[3]

McLennan and McCartney formed their production company called Lead Balloon TV. They wrote, produced and starred as an intolerable foodie (McLennan) and a food intolerant (McCartney) in a cooking-based web series called The Katering Show which screened 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.

In 2017, McLennan and McCartney collaborated on an ABC Television comedy called Get Krack!n, playing exaggerated versions of themselves as breakfast show TV hosts, which screened on ABC iview and in the U.S.[4] Get Krack!n ran for two seasons of eight episodes each, with the final episode going to air in April 2019, with Aboriginal actors and writers Miranda Tapsell and Nakkiah Lui given the stage to make strong statements about racism in Australia.[5]

In June 2023 an eight-part crime comedy McLellan worked on with Kate McCartney entitled Deadloch premiered on Amazon Prime Video.[6][7][8][9]

Stand-up comedy tours

**Tours**
Year	Title	Notes	Role
2002	The Hindsight Prophecies	Melbourne International Comedy Festival	Writer/performer
2002	The Six	Melbourne International Comedy Festival	Writer/performer
2002	The 666	Melbourne International Comedy Festival	Writer/performer
2003	Total Entertainments	Melbourne Fringe Festival	Writer/performer
2005	Henpecked	Melbourne International Comedy Festival	Writer/performer
2006	The Wrong Night	Melbourne International Comedy Festival	Writer/performer
2006	The Debutante Diaries	Melbourne Fringe Festival	Writer/performer
2007	The Debutante Diaries	Edinburgh Festival Fringe	Writer/performer
2007	The Enthusiasts	Melbourne International Comedy Festival	Writer/performer
2008	Beaconsfield: the Musical	Melbourne International Comedy Festival	Writer/performer
2010	I Coulda Been A Sailor	Melbourne International Comedy Festival	Writer/performer
2011	Homeward Bound	Melbourne Fringe Festival	Writer/performer
2012	Comedy Festival Roadshow	Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow in Australia	Writer/performer
2013	Standard Double	Melbourne International Comedy Festival	Writer/performer

Filmography

**Film**
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	All The Way to the Top	Hayley	Actor
2009	Four Minutes of Fame	Karla Tutt	Actor
2010	Kwik Fix	Samara	Actor

**Television**
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Stingers	Melissa	1 episode
2003	MDA	Fan	1 episode
2005	Let Loose Live	Writer/actor	2 episodes
2007-2011	Dogstar	Simone (voice)	52 episodes
2008	The Mansion	Writer/actor	13 episodes
2010	Offspring	Café girl	1 episode
2011	Ben Elton Live from Planet Earth	Actor	3 episodes
2012	Exchange Student Zero	Charity (voice)	1 episode
2012	Live on Bowen	Herself	1 episode
2013	It's a Date	Jessica	1 episode
2013	SlideShow	Herself	1 episode
2013	You're Skitting Me	Writer	13 episodes
2013-2014	Comedy Up Late	Herself	2 episodes
2014	House Husbands	Skye	1 episode
2014-2015	The Flamin' Thongs	Narelle Thong	26 episodes
2015	Little Lunch	Writer	2 episodes
2015	Sammy J & Randy in Ricketts Lane	Megan	1 episode
2014-2015	Winners and Losers	Kathryn Piper	3 episodes
2015	Comedy Showroom - Bleak	Writer/ Actor (Anna O’Brien)	1 episode
2015	Slumber Party	Writer	1 episode
2015	In The Zone IV	Herself	1 episode
2016	The Katering Show (season 2)	Writer/ Producer/ Herself	8 episodes
2016	Dogstar: Christmas in Space	Simone Clark/ Celeste Sharp (voices)	1 episode
2017-2019	Get Krack!n	Writer/ Producer/ Herself	16 episodes
2017	Have You Been Paying Attention?	Herself/ Guest Quiz Master	1 episode
2017	Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell	Herself	1 episode
2010	Wakkaville	Missy (voice)	26 episodes
2018	Sando	Writer	6 episodes
2018	Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation	Herself	1 episode
2019	Hughesy, We Have a Problem	Herself	1 episode
2019	Celebrity Name Game	Herself	1 episode
2023	Deadloch	Creator / Writer	8 episodes

**Web series**
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2014	Bleak- The Web Series	Writer/Actor (Anna)	4 episodes
2015	The Katering Show (season 1)	Writer/ Producer/ Herself	6 episodes

Awards and nominations

**Screen Writing**
Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Role	Ref.
2011	Kit Denton Disfellowship	For Courage and Excellence in Performance Writing	Bleak (web-series)	Won	Shared with Kate McCartney	[3][10]

**Stand-up Comedy**
Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Role	Ref.
2006	Melbourne Fringe Festival	Best Comedy Award	The Debutante Diaries	Won	Writer, performer	[11]
2006	Melbourne Fringe Festival	Best Emerging Artist Award	The Debutante Diaries	Won	Writer, performer	[11]
2007	SA Theatre Guide	Best Comedy Award	The Debutante Diaries	Nominated	Writer, performer
2007	Short and Sweet Festival	Best Actress	All The Way to the Top	Nominated	Writer, performer
2007	Melbourne International Comedy Festival	Barry Award for Best Show	The Debutante Diaries	Nominated	Writer, performer	[12]
2011	The Age	M-IE Award for Rising Comedy Star	The Debutante Diaries	Won	Writer, performer	[2]
2013	Melbourne International Comedy Festival	Golden Gibbo Award for Best Show	Standard Double	Nominated	Writer, performer	[13]

References

Bastow, Clem (30 December 2011). "My Melbourne: Kate McLennan". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
Staff writer, The Age (20 November 2011). "It's the third annual M-ie awards". The Age. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
Swift, Brendan (26 September 2011). "AWGIE Award Winners Announced". IF. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
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. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
"Small screen highlights: THAT episode of Get Krack!n". ScreenHub Australia. 2 April 2019. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
Northover, Kylie (18 May 2023). "The Kates' mystery opens with a dead body - but not what you expect". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
Deadloch (Comedy), Kate Box, Madeleine Sami, Alicia Gardiner, Amazon Studios, Guesswork Television, OK Great Productions, 2 June 2023, retrieved 5 June 2023{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
"Fresh take: Deadloch". Tribune India. 6 May 2023.
"Deadloch' (Trailer)". if.com.au. 4 May 2023. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
Staff writer, The Wheeler Centre. "Kate McCartney". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
Atkins, Jo (2012). "Talented Comedian Kate McLennan". Port Macquarie Focus. Creative House Publications Pty Ltd. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
Platt, Craig (23 April 2007). "Barry Nominees Announced". The Age. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
Staff writer, Squirrel Comedy (21 April 2013). "Winners of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2013". Squirrel Comedy. Retrieved 14 November 2017.

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[kat-1] Bastow, Clem (30 December 2011). "My Melbourne: Kate McLennan". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 14 November 2017.

[kat1-2] Staff writer, The Age (20 November 2011). "It's the third annual M-ie awards". The Age. Retrieved 14 November 2017.

[kat2-3] Swift, Brendan (26 September 2011). "AWGIE Award Winners Announced". IF. Retrieved 14 November 2017.

[4] 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. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 16 November 2017.

[5] "Small screen highlights: THAT episode of Get Krack!n". ScreenHub Australia. 2 April 2019. Retrieved 27 October 2022.

[6] Northover, Kylie (18 May 2023). "The Kates' mystery opens with a dead body - but not what you expect". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 24 May 2023.

[7] Deadloch (Comedy), Kate Box, Madeleine Sami, Alicia Gardiner, Amazon Studios, Guesswork Television, OK Great Productions, 2 June 2023, retrieved 5 June 2023{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

[8] "Fresh take: Deadloch". Tribune India. 6 May 2023.

[9] "Deadloch' (Trailer)". if.com.au. 4 May 2023. Retrieved 24 May 2023.

[10] Staff writer, The Wheeler Centre. "Kate McCartney". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 14 November 2017.

[kat3-11] Atkins, Jo (2012). "Talented Comedian Kate McLennan". Port Macquarie Focus. Creative House Publications Pty Ltd. Retrieved 14 November 2017.

[12] Platt, Craig (23 April 2007). "Barry Nominees Announced". The Age. Retrieved 14 November 2017.

[13] Staff writer, Squirrel Comedy (21 April 2013). "Winners of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2013". Squirrel Comedy. Retrieved 14 November 2017.