CURRENT PROJECTS

Cat Dale is a writer-director based in Bozeman, Montana, whose work explores the overlooked histories of women, set against the backdrop of rural western politics and the complicated bonds between mothers and children. She holds an MFA in Screenwriting from the University of Texas at Austin and is a four-time Nicholl Fellowship quarterfinalist.

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She has directed four short films, including the award-winning Wildcat, featuring the imprisonment of Mary Todd Lincoln and the ghost of her son. Her features Beasts Undiscovered — featuring puppetry from Jim Henson's Creature Shop and Clara Boone, a feminist western, are both in production and recipients of the Big Sky Film Grant.

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She is an Associate Professor of Film at Montana State University, University, where she teaches screenwriting and production, mentoring students on her own film sets.