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Here is a partial portfolio of the completed works of Cat Delaney (and those written under her two pseudonyms); many of these works are available for publication and production. Please contact Cat’s agent, Angela Argento, for more information (see Home page or Contact page of this website).
Please note that some of these works are in rough draft, others more developed in fifth or six draft. A full synopsis is available for each work upon request.
All words belonging to Cat Delaney are protected under copyright laws and reproduction in any form whatsoever without written permission is strictly prohibited.
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For the Stage
• Afterlife (one-act stage play about survivors of a plane crash who gather at a memorial one year later)
• The Agony Aunt (two-act stage play about two women (cousins), feeling their middle age, who discover their aunt/mother was secretly an agony aunt)
• All of the Above (one-act stage play for one actor)
• A Man of Letters (two-act stage play, major historical work about Samuel Johnson’s great regret)
• Alors, Fouquet! (two-act stage play, French history)
• Apart & Tied (two-act stage play about a couple who on their 25th wedding anniversary decide to live apart, but stay married; comedy)
• The Beggar’s Dream (stage play, 1973, really dated!)
• The Castle of Otranto (two-act stage play adapted from the first “gothic” novel, of the same title, written by Horace Walpole in the sixteenth century)
• Celestial Chess (short novel, being redone for stage, for children, about the relationship between day and night)
• Companions of My Spirit (two-act stage play about the death of Alexander Pushkin)
• The Death of Honour (stage play about last fatal duel in Canada; site-specific work)
• Deep Trout (musical stage play set in a major discount department store)
• ESQ. (two-act stage play, political satire about an elderly woman who can’t survive on her meagre government pension and what she does to rectify it)
• The Eternal Husband (two-act stage play, adapted from the Dostoevsky short novel of the same name)
• Grace (one-act stage play about a family that gathers for Thanksgiving after the suicide of their daughter/mother)
• Mrs. Brown & Mrs. Baker (two-act stage play about Queen Victoria and Florence Baker, whom Victoria shunned)
• My Word (one-act stage play about a woman who bargains with the Grim Reaper)
• The Nakaz of Ekaterina (two-act stage play about Catherine the Great; written specifically for actress Katherine East)
• Natural Resources (one-act stage play about Lawren Harris)
• Pierrequin (two-act stage play, historical, that posits the theory that both of the princes did not die in the tower)
• Post Mortem (two-act stage play about a true story)
• Under an English Heaven (two-act stage play based on the life and works of WWI poet, Rupert Brooke, about the romanticism of war)
• The Wheels of Life (musical stage play about three couples in mid-life, based on the songs of Gino Vannelli)
• Wisewoman Trilogy (three-act stage play; satire about witches)
• Welfarewell (full-length social satire, winner of the 2009 Samuel French award)
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Full-length and Short Fiction
• The Atlantis Scrolls (fantasy fiction novel in three parts)
• Coming and Going (collection of short stories; in progress)
• Inland (the great Canadian novel, includes actual stories from Cat’s extended family)
• Smoke (novel set in Edinburgh in 1858)
• A Study in Silk (genre romance novel 60,000 words)
• Autumn Blooms (genre romance novel 65,000 words)
• Lucy Two-Shoes (novel based in Dublin, fictionalized story of Cat’s great-grandma!)
• The Pilot (novel; in progress)
• A Suitable Suitor for the Times (novel of manners in the Victorian tradition)
For the Silver Screen
• Four Funerals and a Wedding (comedy/drama; a cynic learns to love)
• Libretto (dramatic tale of personal journey; somewhat autobiographical)
• The Ratzburg Symphony (drama about the Mennonite past of a concert violinist)
• The Second Parallel (epic historical drama about the discovery of the Nile fountainhead)
• The Legacy of Love (drama with humour about a woman who leaves a unique legacy thanks to her love for her daughters)
• Ghosth (comedy about a conservative couple faced with a “special” ghost)
For the Small Screen
• Classics (a sitcom, taking place in the classics department of a modern university)
• Welfarewell (see stage and screenplays)
• Sandwich (a family sitcom of three generations)
Poetry and Children’s Literature
• A Year in Poetry (daily poems December 2007 to December 2008)
• Castle Capers (epic poem for children)
• Extreme Nocturnes (book of poetry)
• Limon Sinley and the Spay of Doonerisms (comedic grammar lessons for children)
• Pet Tales (story books for pets)
• Straw Flaw Guffaw (book of poetry)
• A Mannerly Mouse Named Murdoch (story in poetry for children)
• Above the Flippancy of Clouds (book of poetry)
Non-fiction and Memoirs
• in the Country (creative non-fiction)
• Gramps (memoir)
• Lives Have Nine Cats and Other Tales of Pet Motherhood (memoir with poetry, drawings and photos)
• Shylock’s Last Stand (non-fiction book, published in 1997)
• Success Sucks! (non-fiction satire, skewering motivational gurus)
Special Major Editorial and Writing Contract Projects
• The Cushings Chronicle by Dr. Barbara Fuller (factual book on a medical intern who developed Cushings Disease and survived)
• The Last Voyage of the S.S. Empire Lancer: a Memoir by the late Roger Pocock (biography from WWII; set to be adapted into a screenplay)
• Putting on a Show; Theatre for Young People by Kathleen McDonnell (major editing of book by noted Canadian children’s playwright, including four plays, for Second Story Press, Toronto)
• Within Attractions, adaptation to stage of a screenplay (and produced film) by Patrick Phillips
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