Catherine is an early-career professional director originally from Washington D.C., and is the founder and artistic director of the Cunning Folk.

Her work combines an interest in the depiction of religion (as well as other powerful ideologies) with a love for using the tools of a director to create other-worlds onstage. She recerived her training in Yale College’s Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies department and at the National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Centre, and has assistant directed Equity productions alongside her work with the Cunning Folk. Favourite past projects include Angels in America: Perestroika (Directing senior thesis project, Yale College, 2023), Selkie Play (as a staged reading with the Yale Drama Coalition, 2022; for the Cunning Folk, 2023), and The Hound of the Baskervilles (as an assistant for Lee Mikeska Gardner, Central Square Theatre, 2024).

Relevant skills include many, many hours in the rehearsal room, as both a primary director and as an assistant; facility with Shakespeare/Early Modern english; Music-Reading ability; Dance/choreography training (at Yale College with Emily Coates); and comfort + experience directing a range of genres including literary adaptations, comedies, musicals, and physical theatre.