Kathy is an experienced scripted Producer and Project Manager with a focus on equalities and access for working class, care experienced, regional voices, education, and transformational change. She founded production company Up Helly Aa in 2012 in Clydebank, Scotland. Feature Films produced include multi-award winning coming of age Scottish road-trip, Moon Dogs (2016), Welsh Brexit thriller, Concrete Plans (2020), for TV - First Footing (2022) and Pity Party (2019) for BBC Scotland. She has produced over thirty live action, documentary and animation short films, managed talent development schemes for UK film Council, Young Scot, GMAC Film, BFI Network, BBC Employability Boost, RSPB and Scottish Refugee Council. She is a Bifa Longlisted Producer, Eave Producers Alumni, Bafta Scotland, PACT, BECTU and RTS member.TV First Footing | 28min | Comedy | 2022 (UK) BBC Scotland with Up Helly Aa/Shakehaus Wri/Dir: Paul Black. Currently on iplayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001gsgl/first-footingPity Party | 28min | Comedy | 2019 (UK) BBC Scotland with Up Helly Aa/Shakehaus Wri/Dir: Paul Black link: https://vimeo.com/364315485/488a6f7852FEATURE FILMS Concrete Plans 1h 31min | Thriller | 2020 (UK) Dir: Will Jewell Producer: Rob Alexander, Kathy Speirs, Ian Davies Released 2020 Frightfest Premiere International Sales: MPI Media, UK Distributors: Signature Entertainment, Film4 acquisitionMoon Dogs 1h 33min | Comedy, Drama | 1 September 2016 (UK/Ireland) BBC Scotland acquisitionDir: Philip John Producer: Kathy Speirs Co-Producers Ripple World and Suzanne Reid Writers: Raymond Friel & Derek Boyle funded by Creative Scotland, FFilm Cymru Wales & Irish Film Board.THEATRE/COMEDYMight As Well (2024) development of inaugural show at GICF with Kim Blythe, Inside and Prejudice (2024) Edinburgh Fringe Ifrah Quershi, Self Care Era (2022) Armadillo, Oran Mor, Soho Theatre and Edinburgh Fringe Gilded Balloon sell out show. Worst Case Scenario (2021) sell out Fringe show. Moriarty is Crying (2006) winner of the inaugural Willie Russell award for new writing - Edinburgh Fringe and Citizens Theatre. Otherwise Engaged (2006).Live Action short films produced include Sally Leapt Out Of A Window One Night, I am Not, Man at the Window, The Marriage Counsellor, mixed media animations include RSPB and Scottish Refugee Council co production The Flight of the Sandmartin https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/8219 http://film-directory.britishcouncil.org/sally-leapt-out-of-a-window-last-night.