Kate Hammer is a writer, director, and performer born in Canada, and living in Scotland. An award-winning writer, director, and comedian, Kate strives to create community representation in order to tell the stories that need to be heard. Kate graduated with distinction from Concordia University’s Creative Writing BA, and Glasgow Caledonian University’s Television Fiction Writing Master’s course.
In stand-up comedy, Kate has made it to the semi-finals of the Funny Women, LGBTQ+ New Comedian, and Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year Awards. They also wrote for Mighty Bunny’s Radio 4 sketch pilot alongside other neurodivergent writers.
They now work in film and television and were a part of Short Circuit’s Convergence Programme (2022), Grey Moth’s Witty Women Fund (2022), and GMAC Little Pictures Cohort (2023), and was long listed for Sharp Shorts in 2023. They wrote and directed short films BEAR (2023) and GROSS (2023), as well as four BBC Short Stuff sketches. They are a queer, neurodivergent female creator who never forgets their goat farming heritage.