Meet the Q Family: Caitie
Meet Caitie.
Producer/Writer. Office cheerleader. Just-plain-awesome.
Favourite expression: Epic.
Favourite children’s: The Balloon Tree. It’s stunning.
Website you visit the most: I love having a good inspiration sesh perusing through Ad Week or Strategy.
A free day is spent: A big pot of tea (or pack of craft beer), a high intensity season of something on Netflix and I’m good for the day.
Biggest pet peeve: The TTC. I hate being late, I hate waiting and I hate the overall vibes you get from the TTC. But when it’s good, it’s great. The subway gets you around the city faster than anything else – it’s all the connecting transit that blows.
Favourite story to tell: I’ll tell anyone who will listen about the 3 month backpacking trip my boyfriend husband (update: we got hitched last fall!) and I took across Western Europe. It’s a chance for me to relive the experience too, and there are some truly terrific stories from that trip (ask me about the Pub Crawl in Prague or mountain cabin in Switzerland).
A dinner party with any three people, dead or alive – who’s at the table? Tina Fey, because she’s awesome, Joss Whedon, because I have so many questions for him, and my mom, because I know she loves both of them as much as I do.
Dream project: Another Joss Whedon girl-who-kicks-serious-ass show. Where I either play the lead, or the producer. Haha I guess that part of my life I haven’t quite figured out yet.
Something quirky about yourself?
I have a bit of OCD – sharing a tiny apartment with my partner, almost everything we own has to live in a permanent place. I literally can not sit on the couch for more than a minute if the bed isn’t made, or the laptop isn’t where it should be. I’m the same at the office – organized in my own way, even if it doesn’t look like it.
What did you want to grow up to be?
Actor. Hands down. I think I was the only 4 year old to have a memorized Oscar speech. Which I recited regularly to my army of stuffed animals.
Why aren’t you doing that now?
It’s a path that wasn’t right for me. I loved to pretend, using my imagination and discovering story and character – but I hated auditioning and all the other un-fun networking and kowtowing that comes along with the acting world. And now I still get to play pretend, using my imagination and discovering stories here at Q.
If you could be a character in a movie – who would it be?
This one is tough – there are characters that I would have loved to play as an actor, but most are characters that go through the ringer and I wouldn’t want to live their life. So maybe someone with super powers, but also has a sweet, cushy life. Does that character even exist?
What’s your “Q” connection?
My mum and Dorothy both support Wellspring Cancer Support Centre. When I was feeling a bit a frustrated with my daily routine of heading to auditions and juggling waitressing, barista-ing and retail jobs, my mum suggested Dorothy as a fantastic woman to chat with to think about other career paths. I started here as a volunteer, barely knowing how to use a Mac computer, and now, after 9 years with Dorothy and Richard, I have learned more than I thought possible and have had more opportunities than I could have imagined.
What do you like most about working at Q?
The people. I am surrounded by smart, funny, creative, intelligent, hard-working and caring people. Who influence and teach me everyday. It truly is a little work family.
Most memorable Q project:
I’d have to say Getinvolved! Season Four, only because it was my first series from start to finish. I researched potential subjects, pre-interviewed, then came to their hometown and did the on-camera interviews, and then into the editing suite and delivered to TVO for broadcast. It was the first project I’ve worked on at Q where I saw something grow from nothing. And watching my work on TV was pretty cool.
Although Spain with Graeme for Campo Viejo is a close second, followed by the insane 72 hours in studio for DLC, where the whole crew got to work together. Great memz.
What makes you happy?
Pretty much everything. Fluffy animals. A good glass/bottle of red wine. Pasta. Futurama. My friends. My hubs. Christmas. Steak. The smell of gasoline. Chocolate. That feeling when you finally sit down after you’ve cleaned your whole home from top to bottom. A good run or Yoga sesh. Sunshine. Patio pints. Discovering a great new show. The beach. Long weekends. Lazy days on a dock. Road trips. My bike. Weddings. Travelling. Movie previews. Movies in general. Dancing. Long summer days.
