Kate McCartney

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| medium = Stand-up comedian, writer, actor, illustrator

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| genre = observational comedy, character comedy, parody and satire

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| domesticpartner = Sally Rugg (2022–present; engaged)

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The Katering Show
Get Krack!n
Deadloch

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Kate McCartney is an Australian comedian, writer, actor and illustrator. She is a frequent collaborator with Kate McLennan, which has led to their being dubbed the Kates.

Early and personal life

She was born in Perth, moved to Sydney but grew up in Camberwell, Victoria. She later moved to the Melbourne suburb Preston and had a daughter, Millie, in early 2015.{{cite web|website=Sydney Morning Herald|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/lunch-with-kate-mccartney-and-kate-mclennan-20170821-gy0pse.html|accessdate=11 February 2024|title= Lunch with Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan|first=Kylie|last=Northover

|date=August 21, 2017}}{{cite web|url= https://harpersbazaar.com.au/kate-mclennan-and-kate-mccartney-on-deadloch/|website=HarpersBazaar|accessdate=11 February 2024|title= It Takes Two: Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney|first=Jane|last=Rocca}}{{cite web|url= https://concreteplayground.com/brisbane/arts-entertainment/the-kates-mclennan-mccartney-interview-deadloch/amp|website=Concrete Playground|accessdate=11 February 2024|title= How Australia's Comedy Queens Made "Funny Broadchurch": Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney Talk 'Deadloch'|first=Sarah|last=Ward|date=5 June 2023}} In 2022, she became engaged to Sally Rugg.{{Cite tweet |user=sallyrugg|author=Sally Rugg |number=1477843619557953538 |title=IMPORTANT RETRACTION TO MY 2019 MEMOIR}}

Career

McCartney worked as a comedian and also worked in animation. Her television writing credits have included Big Bite, Hamish & Andy, Adam Hills Tonight and Spicks and Specks.{{cite web|website=Sydney Morning Herald|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/m26cover-20190121-h1ab4i.html|accessdate = 11 February 2024|title=Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney on the second season of Get Krack!n|first=Joanne|last=Brookfield|date=January 27, 2019}}

She met Kate McLennan in 2011 after McLennan voiced a character in an animation for her.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/may/27/we-invoked-shakespeare-kates-mclennan-and-mccartney-on-explaining-australian-swearing-to-amazon|website=The Guardian|accessdate=11 February 2024|title='We invoked Shakespeare’: Kates McLennan and McCartney on explaining Australian swearing to Amazon|date=26 May 2023|first=Sian|last=Cain}} Due to the number of subsequent collaborations with McLennan, the pair have been dubbed the Kates in the media.{{cite web|title=Deadloch: The Kates are back with ‘feminist, noir, crime comedy’|website=The New Daily| date=8 May 2023|url=https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/entertainment/2023/05/08/deadloch-kate-mccartney-mclennan |accessdate=11 February 2024}}

McCartney co-created the web series Bleak with McLennan in 2010, about being a single 30-something, which won the Kit Denton Disfellowship for Courage and Excellence in Performance Writing at the 2011 AWGIE Awards, worth {{AUD|30,000}}.{{cite web |url=https://www.if.com.au/awgie-award-winners-announced-2/|title= AWGIE Award Winners Announced |date=26 September 2011|last1=Swift|first1=Brendan |website=IF |accessdate=11 February 2024}}

With McLennan, she created a cooking-based web series called The Katering Show which screened initially 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.{{cite web |last=Valentish|first=Jenny |title=Get Krack!n: how The Katering Show's comedic duo are skewering morning TV|website=the Guardian | date=27 August 2017|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/aug/28/get-krackn-how-the-katering-shows-comedic-duo-are-skewering-morning-tv | access-date=11 February 2024}}{{cite web | last=Buckmaster | first=Luke | title=Get Krack!n review – Katering Show Kates face-plant uproariously into milieu of breakfast TV |website=The Guardian| date=30 August 2017|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/aug/30/get-krackn-review-katering-show-kate-mclennan-kate-mccartney-comedy|accessdate=11 February 2024}}

In 2017, McCartney collaborated with McLennan for ABC Television to create the comedy Get Krack!n, in which they played breakfast show television presenters.{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/the-katering-shows-kates-to-tackle-breakfast-tv-in-new-abc-series-get-krackn-20170215-gue17a.html|title=The Katering Show's Kates to tackle breakfast TV in new ABC series Get Krack!n|last=Moran|first=Rob|date=16 February 2017|website= The Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=11 February 2024}}

In 2021, they created Slushy, a workplace comedy set in the Australian Antarctic research base, that was available as a podcast on Audible.{{cite web|title=‘That’s enough from us’: What the Get Krackin’ team did next|first=Louise|last=Rugendyke|date=May 8, 2021 |url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/that-s-enough-from-us-what-the-get-krackin-team-did-next-20210507-p57q0e.html|website=Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=11 February 2024}}

McCartney and McLennan wrote the 2023 Amazon Prime Video series Deadloch starring Kate Box,{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/the-kates-mystery-opens-with-a-dead-body-but-not-what-you-expect-20230515-p5d8kt.html|website=Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=February 10, 2024|title=The Kates’ mystery opens with a dead body - but not what you expect|first=Kylie|last= Northover|date=May 18, 2023}} which garnered positive reviews,{{cite web|website=The Guardian|url= https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/dec/29/deadloch-wellmania-and-the-matildas-the-best-australian-television-of-2023|accessdate=11 February 2024|title= Deadloch, Wellmania and the Matildas: the best Australian television of 2023|date=28 December 2023}} and won McCartney a Best Television Script Writing Award and Box a Best Actress Award, at the AACTA Awards in February 2024.{{cite web|website=The Guardian|accessdate=11 February 2024|url= https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/dec/09/aacta-awards-2024-nominations-the-newsreader-deadloch-and-colin-from-accounts-lead-tv|title= Aacta awards 2024: The Newsreader, Deadloch and Colin from Accounts lead TV nominations |first=Sian|last=Cain|date=8 December 2023}}{{cite web|website=TV Black Box|accessdate=11 February 2024|url= https://tvblackbox.com.au/page/2024/02/09/deadloch-the-lost-flowers-of-alice-hart-triumph-at-2024-aacta-awards/|date=9 February 2024|title= DEADLOCH, THE LOST FLOWERS OF ALICE HART Triumph at 2024 AACTA Awards|first=Kevin|last=Perry}}