WRITER | DIRECTOR
Stories That Matter. Written and Directed with Purpose.
A Director Who Understands the Actor's Truth.
I am an award-winning screenwriter and director with experience in writing for screen, stage and audio.
With an MA in Creative Writing (Distinction), films screened at 19 festivals, scripts longlisted and semi-finalled at competitive UK development funds, and the instincts of a working actor, I bring a rare compound perspective to every project I write and direct.
What I Bring
I came to writing and directing through acting.
After years of performing other people's words — on stage, on TV sets, in front of cameras — I began to understand what made a script genuinely alive. What separated the scenes that crackled from the ones that merely existed. What a director actually needed from the page to make something that worked.
So I started writing.
And directing.
And the two things fed each other in ways I hadn't anticipated. My writing became more performable because I understood instinctively what an actor needed on the page. My directing became more precise because I knew how to build to the truth from the inside out.
I specialise in issue-based drama: stories about the things that happen in real lives that mainstream storytelling rarely examines. Domestic violence. Sexual violence. Addiction. Class. Community. Grief. The silenced things.
I write and direct with rigour, empathy and an authentic emotional intelligence that comes from real human experience and a over decade of acting training.
→ Find out more about my films at House of Tales: thisishouseoftales.com
Writing
Issue-based. Emotionally grounded. Precisely crafted.
I write the stories I haven't been able to find elsewhere.
The character who doesn't have the language to describe what's happening to her. The community that has been studied and categorised but never actually heard. The ordinary moment that contains an entire history.
My scripts are grounded in authentic human experience, not researched from a safe distance, but drawn from lived reality.
I hold an MA in Creative Writing with Distinction. I study the structural mechanics of story as seriously as I study character and dialogue. A script that doesn't work architecturally will never fully work emotionally, and I care about both.
I am drawn particularly to:
— Feature and short film drama
— High End Television: single dramas and series
— Theatre plays
— Audio dramas
— Issue-based and socially relevant material
— Character-led, emotionally complex narratives
— Stories where the personal and political intersect
If you commission a script from me, you get a writer who will advocate for the story, who can work collaboratively without losing the voice, and who understands what it costs — both artistically and practically — to make the work you're trying to make.
→ Explore the films I've written at House of Tales (thisishouseoftales.com)
Directing
Authentic, precise, purposeful.
I begin with the story. Always.
Before a shot list. Before a schedule. I need to understand what this story is for and who it is for. What it asks of an audience. What it will cost them: emotionally, intellectually, morally.
Then I work backwards. Every decision — casting, design, lens choice, editing rhythm — serves that initial answer.
With actors, I am collaborative and specific. I give direction in terms of action, circumstance and relationship because telling an actor to 'be sad' produces a performance of sadness, not sadness itself.
I create a set environment where actors can take risks. Where the first take is rarely the best take. Where something real is more valuable than something safe.
And I have the production discipline to deliver, on time, on budget, with work the team is proud of. This is not an afterthought. This is what makes everything else possible.
I specialise in:
— Issue-based and socially relevant drama
— Character-led screen drama for film, television, stage and audio
→ See the films I've directed at House of Tales (thisishouseoftales.com)
Dr. Piers Henriques,
Director of Communications, Nacoa
https://nacoa.org.uk/watch-changing-tides-by-kathryn-georghiou-on-the-big-screen/
"I'm so deeply moved by it. There is the most extraordinary amount of complexity suggested by such apparently simple exchanges."
Poppy Blundell
How Many Films in a Year
https://www.instagram.com/p/C_KZwZbMSzy/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
"There was a great balance of dialogue here, allowing the audience to really see the emotion on the actors faces and within their body language. You really do feel immersed in the storyline when watching."
“I am loving the script. The dialogue is so tight - feels like a Pinter/Ayckbourn/Stoppard, it's fab!.”
WRITING CREDITS & DEVELOPEMENT PIPELINE
COMPLETED - FILM
Changing Tides (Short Film)
Writer, Director, Co-Producer
Film Festival Awards: Best Drama, Best First Time Director and two Best First-Time Filmmaker Awards.
Bea, a broke 22-year-old domestic carer, has a new patient, an old, angry alcoholic at the end of his life. After a turbulent start, the two form an unlikely bond that changes both their lives forever.
→ Read more at thisishouseoftales.com
The Making of Changing Tides (Short Documentary)
Writer, Director
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Changing Tides.
The majority of the cast and crew involved in Changing Tides had personal experiences of alcohol dependency, and in this Making Of... they share their experiences and what it meant to work on the film.
→ Read more at thisishouseoftales.com
Prefer To Sip Tea (Short Film)
Writer, Co-Director, Lead Actress
Film Festival Awards: One Best International Filmmaker and six Best Actress
Set in an office with an important presentation looming, Ellie is forced to hide her exhaustion from her unforgiving manager and a flirtatious male colleague who doesn't realise the effects of his actions, because every time she closes her eyes, she is forced to relive her worst trauma.
→ Read more at thisishouseoftales.com
IN DEVELOPMENT - FILM
Sweet (Short Film)
Writer, Director
Producer - Lydia Kay
Slick Film Fund Semi-Finalist
A widow bakes her estranged son his favourite cake to win him back. When he arrives alone, she fears the worst and a desperate act of protection ends in tragedy, witnessed through a letterbox by a four-year-old girl.
→ Read more at thisishouseoftales.com
John Boy (Short Film)
Writer (Commissioned), Director (Commissioned), Lead Actress
Producer - Lydia Kay
John is nine years old. Today he scored a hat-trick, imagined the scouts watching and his name on the front pages of the papers. Then he came home. In the bath, he heard everything; the shouting, the screaming, the violence. And then found his mum on the floor, bleeding.
→ Read more at thisishouseoftales.com
Forgotten (working title) (Feature Documentary)
Writer, Director
Producer - Charlotte Ginsborg
They didn't have the addiction. They just lived inside it. Forgotten follows a group of 'affected others' — the partners, children and siblings left behind — as they use applied theatre and storytelling to confront their past, reclaim their identities, and dare to imagine a future that belongs to them.
→ Read more at thisishouseoftales.com
SPEC SCRIPT
Dance (Short Film)
Writer
Longlisted for the Unsolicited Scripts Short Film Fund
Sarah has given her whole life to ballet. Now in her mid-thirties, the twilight of a dancer's career, she finally lands the role she has always dreamed of. Then she discovers she is pregnant. Then, on opening night, she begins to miscarry. She goes on stage anyway.
→ Read more at thisishouseoftales.com
COMPLETED AND ONGOING - AUDIO DRAMA
Terror Tapes (Horror Anthology)
Writer, VO Artist
Producer - Chris Gregory, Alternative Stories
When Adam from Dead Media bought a new cassette player, he needed tapes to play. At his local car boot sale, he found some: a box of unlabelled, unmarked cassette tapes. Listening to them, he discovered a series of terrifying and chilling tales on each one, so he’s called them Terror Tapes.
Listen if you dare.
To date, Kathryn has written six episodes: The Calling, When the Bough Breaks, Past Lives, Driving Home for Christmas, Don’t Wait up for Santa, and Moving Out.
→ Listen: https://pod.link/1849858270
UNPRODUCED - THEATRE
Class/Act (Full length, five person play)
Writer
Class/Act tells the story of Danielle, a corporate go-getter who races toward success, but the faster she climbs the more her carefully-buried secrets threaten to catch up. A sharp, funny, and layered drama about identity, ambition, family separation, and the cost of fitting in.
Class/Act is a five-person play.
An early extract of Class/Act was performed at a Page to Stage scratch night in London. Further redrafts have received two table reads, plus a two-day R&D workshop with professional actors, all designed and facilitated by Kathryn.
→ Email for more information: katgactress@gmail.com