Catherine Tregenna
Episodes Broadcast: 2006-2008, 2015
A native of Wales, Catherine Tregenna got her start in television as an
actress, opting to use her maiden name for professional purposes rather
than her married surname, Morris. During the Nineties she appeared in
Welsh-language programmes such as Pobol y Cwm, but she started to
find acting roles scarcer as she matured. As such, around the turn of
the century, Tregenna took up writing, and she found initial success
with the play Art And Guff. Next came television scripts for
Belonging, Casualty and her own co-creation, The
Bench, before Doctor Who executive producer Russell T Davies
recruited her for the first season of the spin-off series
Torchwood. Tregenna would ultimately write four scripts for the
show, starting with 2006's Out Of
Time.
Tregenna thereafter contributed six episodes of Law & Order: UK,
while also writing for programmes like Lewis and DCI
Banks. When former Torchwood script editor Brian Minchin
became the executive producer of Doctor Who, he encouraged
Davies' successor, Steven Moffat, to solicit a script from Tregenna. She
declined the invitation, however, advising that she didn't view herself
as a good fit for the show. Nonetheless, Moffat and Minchin decided to
wait until they had a project which suited Tregenna's talent for
exposing the emotional core of her characters. She was finally persuaded
to write 2015's The Woman Who
Lived, in which Peter Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor was forced to
confront the ramifications of the immortality he had bestowed upon
Ashildr (Maisie Williams) in the previous episode, The Girl Who Died.
Tregenna went on to write for Lucky Man. Amongst her credits
during the Twenties were Riviera, The Watch and Three
Pines.
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