Katy Swainston, a woman with brown hair smiling, is holding a purple question card that reads 'A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN' in a writers' room with large windows, monitors, and office supplies. 
Comedy

In A League of Their Own’s Writers’ Room

I write for TV and radio, make award-winning films, create industry-recognised spec scripts and end up in stand-up competition finals after three gigs.

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Two men stand in a dimly lit room, one with shoulder-length blonde hair and a yellow bow-tie and another with short hair and a yellow jumper. The man with the short hair is applauding while the man with the longer hair is looking at him.

Applause comedy short

Writer and Producer

My work

I’ve written for Sky’s a League of Their Own, BBC Radio 4’s Please Use Other Door and BBC Radio Scotland’s Breaking the News.

I was chosen for Sky’s Future Heads programme as a writer. I was shortlisted for ITV’s 50:50 programme for my one-liners.

I was co-writer for Baby On Board, which has began screening at festivals across the UK, including Women X and Aesthetica.

My sitcom spec script The Museum was a semi-finalist in The Sitcom Mission, Gallery 56 was a semi-finalist for BBC Comedy Collective and Nightingales was a quarter-finalist in the Female Pilot Club.

Katy Swainston, a woman with long, wavy brown hair, is holding a microphone and smiling, standing in front of a blue curtain and a brick wall while performing stand-up.
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British Comedy Guide Pro Performer Award (finalist)

Old Age, British Comedy Guide Pro Writer Award (runner-up)

Four people on a stage with dark curtains, holding papers, and speaking into microphones during a performance event of a script a the Covent Garden Comedy Club.
A scene from a film called Applause showing two men, one with long blonde hair with a bow tie, and the other with short hair wearing a brown turtleneck, in a dark room, applauding. The man with the long hair is hear huge, red foam hands.

Digital Date at the Covent Garden Comedy Club, Writer

Applause, Writer and Executive Producer

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April Fools at Kew Gardens (500k views), Writer and Performer