Mary Kate O Flanagan is an award-winning writer, journalist and an expert in Storytelling On The Screen. She works in North America and across Europe, as well as in her native Ireland.
 
Mary Kate works as a credited co-writer and an uncredited script doctor. With her sister Rachel O’Flanagan, she gives training in storytelling skills for professionals. They are particularly interested in the true-life stories that people and entities tell about themselves - how those stories inevitably shape their futures.
Mary Kate was Ireland’s first Grand Slam Champion Storyteller at The Moth. She was also a Grand Slam Champion Storyteller at The Moth in Los Angeles and a Champion Storyteller at The Dublin StorySlam on several occasions.
Mary Kate has turned a number of her true-life stories into a piece of theatre, Making A Show of Myself, which will next be performed at Dublin’s historic Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin, in November and December 2023.