We are KLO SCOUTING
We are a dynamic team who enjoy tailoring our services to each client, with the aim of making meaningful contributions to development slates.
Meet the Team
Meet the Team
Kate Loftus-O’Brien
Director
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Kate founded KLO Scouting in 2016 after several years working as a scout in Berlin & London, with the support of an Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs grant. She grew up in Cumbria, studied literature in London & the US, and gained an MPhil in Film from Trinity College Dublin. With over a decade of experience as a book-to-screen scout for companies in the UK, US, Ireland and Australia, Kate combines a broad network with sharp instincts to help her clients find IP that’s right for them. She loves characters who mess with an audience's moral compass – who act on logic that’s flawed, wild, or downright wrong, and somehow make you root for them anyway. Other things Kate’s evangelical about include: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Six Feet Under, and the right to look foolish whilst falling off a climbing wall.
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Colette started reading for KLO Scouting in 2018 whilst finishing up her PhD at UCL (if anyone ever wants to discuss nationalism, neoliberalism, Scottish poetry, or any of the above, she’s your man). After graduating, she joined KLO full-time as a scout in 2020; she is genuinely delighted to have found a job where people find her research skills useful in the real world. She is the team’s resident Graphic Novel, podcast, SFF nerd, and loves a heartfelt, complex sibling relationship in a novel. She is an Arts Emergency Mentor, TTRPG writer and cat-steward, whose viewing taste was irreparably shaped by early 2000s BBC comedy programming, Studio Ghibli features, Mulholland Drive, and the 1996 cinema classic The First Wives Club.
Colette Osgun
Senior Scout
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