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Honors for Free Skate’s pilot teleplay include: Winner, Women In Film New England (WIFVNE) Script Competition. Named Coverfly Top 1% (out of all 301,405 projects). “One to Watch” on the WriteHer List. One of the “Top 100 Pilots” by The Tracking Board. The Red List on Coverfly. Official selection of SeriesFest: Season 8 as part of the Pitch-A-Thon Competition. MTV/WIF TV & Media Outreach Program. Top 20 of the Year (2024) for Comedy Television (One-hour) on Coverfly. ISA Fast Track Category Winner (Spring 2025). Finalist for the Athena Film Festival LA TV Lab, hosted in partnership with the Stephens College Master of Fine Arts in Television and Screenwriting and WIST (Women in the Script Trade, formerly IRIS). Finalist for the Joan Bressler Set in Philadelphia 2026 Screenwriting Competition (SIP), which is presented by the Greater Philadelphia Film Office. The TV pilot category is sponsored by Comcast/NBC Universal. Finalist for the Long Walk Films Screenplay Competition (in association with Women in Film & Video - New England). Semifinalist in GET IT MADE + The Writers Lab’s inaugural From Page to Proof initiative. Semifinalist in ATX TV Festival's The Pitch Competition presented by Canva Recommended by the Writers Guild of America East to the New York Stage and Film (NYSAF)’s 2024 Filmmakers’ Workshop as “as an exceptional pre-guild writer whom our program would be lucky to consider…. Our program accepts submissions on an invitation-only basis, and we wanted to extend one to you given your impressive track record as a storyteller.” https://www.freeskatetheseries.com/about daily 0.75 2026-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f13422a9b120c42fcb3c162/1595105164976-SSL0T9N6FAJ0NCXKAA7Q/Outside+Coney+Island+Caitlin+McCarthy.jpg About Free Skate’s Caitlin McCarthy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f13422a9b120c42fcb3c162/1595105221896-7KSF1M3LHKWHEFGF1A49/Erin+and+Caitlin+skating.JPG About A childhood on ice: Free Skate’s Caitlin McCarthy (on left) with her sister Erin (on right). https://www.freeskatetheseries.com/press daily 0.75 2021-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f13422a9b120c42fcb3c162/9dc57727-619f-4df5-8f62-ad1f66271f60/Cover+-+IMAGINE+MAGAZINE+2024.jpg Press Featured on IMAGINE Magazine's Summer 2024 cover. Cover story focuses on Caitlin McCarthy's various screenplay projects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f13422a9b120c42fcb3c162/3def6735-8f6a-48ca-ac10-907d7e3fde0b/Possible+Woman+Magazine.jpg Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f13422a9b120c42fcb3c162/1603578843324-1MVOL1W8QNFDD7NRRL5W/IMAGINE_Nov2020-Cover.jpg Press Caitlin McCarthy on the cover of Imagine Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f13422a9b120c42fcb3c162/34b217d7-e5ad-414d-bd2d-fa29aa125860/Coverfly.jpg Press FREE SKATE by Caitlin McCarthy earned two honors from Coverfly: The Red List (2024) and Top 20 of the Year (2024) for Comedy Television (One-hour). The Red List on Coverfly is a collection of the most highly-rated unproduced screenplays and pilots on the platform. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f13422a9b120c42fcb3c162/1602453595595-AVJ0PRI2VZ8SPZJZEH0S/WriteHer.jpg Press "Free Skate," an original TV pilot by Caitlin McCarthy, was named "One to Watch" by WeForShe's WriteHer List. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f13422a9b120c42fcb3c162/1605666738656-0ADVB1Z4AB7A2QT1CGCT/Caitlin+McCarthy+Women+in+Screen.jpg Press Caitlin McCarthy was selected for the exclusive Women in Screen Workshop, led by the Australian International Screen Forum in New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f13422a9b120c42fcb3c162/21773a69-aa6d-4093-84a8-e1ad6af38514/comedy.png Press FREE SKATE won the Comedy Category in the highly competitive ISA Fast Track Fellowship (Spring 2025 edition). With numerous entries from around the world, this recognition is a huge honor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f13422a9b120c42fcb3c162/82ccc5fd-7366-4385-b3e3-c8cff121d529/SeriesFest.jpg Press FREE SKATE was chosen as an official selection of SeriesFest: Season Eight as part of the Pitch-A-Thon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f13422a9b120c42fcb3c162/1995d5e7-2c74-4017-b22b-1c5f9f71a60b/WIFVNE.JPG Press FREE SKATE was selected by Women in Film New England for WIFVNE Table Read Tuesday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f13422a9b120c42fcb3c162/011b394e-0ce2-40a7-9f37-15324b211426/Mass+Cultural+Council.jpg Press Worcester Telegram & Gazette article about Caitlin McCarthy winning an artist fellowship from the Mass Cultural Council. Article highlights her scripts A NATIVE LAND and WONDER DRUG. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f13422a9b120c42fcb3c162/2033ed59-44f2-4f33-ac9a-b9c74144edec/Zaftyg.jpg Press Zaftyg Los Angeles ran a cover story about Caitlin McCarthy as part of its Female Screenwriters Series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f13422a9b120c42fcb3c162/1602454769780-WMDF4UWMBJFO0Z5ZNEWZ/Free%2BSkate%2Bshout%2Bout.jpg Press Industry shout-out from Sal Calleros (Co-Executive Producer of The Good Doctor) during the WGA Solidarity Challenge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f13422a9b120c42fcb3c162/a8d70d35-76fe-466a-9531-fb8b8d65300f/FREE+SKATE+shout-out.jpg Press FREE SKATE received a shout-out on social media from David H. 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