Cat Dale is a writer and director working on narrative projects focused on institutional trauma and gender perceptions. Her work includes award-winning scripts, MOUNT PLEASANT (winner of the ScreenCraft Pilot Launch, Featured Script on The Black List, and second round for the Sundance Episodic Lab), and co-written script BEASTS UNDISCOVERED (Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist & is currently being produced in partnership with the Jim Henson Creature Shop & Myriad Pictures). Her two award-winning short films (RUBBER & GLUE and WILDCAT) have screened nationally and internationally.  She participated in The Black List & Studio Canal CANNESFILM UNLIMITED writing residency and is currently developing three features, WILDCAT, CLARA BOONE, and OBSCURE, PLAIN, & LITTLE. She is a second-round script reader for the Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, a reader for Stowe Story Labs, and was on the Sidewrite Screenwriting Jury for the Sidewalk Film Festival. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin MFA in screenwriting, she is currently a professor at Montana State University where she adores working with her students in film production.