INNOVATIVE DIRECTOR-EXPERIENCED THEATRE EDUCATOR

BIOGRAPHY

Catherine has directed over 75 productions during her 13 years teaching in urban public schools. She has an MFA in Directing from Middlesex University and a Diploma in Arts Management from Birkbeck University in London. Since 2006, she has worked extensively with at-risk youth on issue-based theatre, playwriting, adaptation and Shakespeare in the schools. In 2019, she had the honor of training with the education team at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.

Favorite student productions include:

The Laramie Project, The House of Bernarda Alba, Requiem, Our Town, Lemon Sky, True West, 

A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You LIke It and Romeo and Juliet.

Catherine's professional directing credits include Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Kranzberg Center-Black Mirror), Land of Opportunity (Public Works-London's Tabard Theatre), Time After Time (London's Soho Rep), The Lord of the Flies (Dallas Children’s Theater), Lower Ninth (Bath House Cultural Center) and Frankie and Johnnie in the Clair de Lune (Dallas Hub Theater).