About Catherine
As a writer, Catherine has had over twenty scripts produced for radio, puppetry, hybrid performance, theatre and children’s theatre including: Dr Egg and the Man with No Ear, Sydney Opera House Youth Production Unit and Redmoon Theatre Chicago, BioHome: The Chromosome Knitting Project, University of Wollongong Gallery, Experimental Art Foundation/Vitalstatistix (SA), The Jetty, The Violin Player and The Woman Who Knitted Herself a Child ABC Radio Airplay.
She has recently completed a Doctorate of Creative Arts at Wollongong University under the supervision of acclaimed novelist Merlinda Bobis and New Media artist Brogan Bunt, where she developed performance texts from a series of original bio-ethical fables. She currently writes freelance and lectures in scriptwriting for
theatre, film and radio at the University of Wollongong Faculty of Creative Arts. Her new radio work for ABC radio National Airplay: The Jetty, is scheduled for broadcast in 2011. Her play Dr Egg and The Man with No Ear toured to Canada in 2010, will re-tour in 2012 and is currently being adapted for epublication.
Awards
In 2011 and 2010 Catherine received the Australian Writers Guild AWGIE award for Childrens Theatre (Dr Egg and The Man With No Ear) and Original Radio Script for her play The Violin Player. In 2001 and 2006 she was the recipient of the Playworks/Varuna fellowship and also
received two New Media Fund (Australia Council) grants to create new works in 2002. The original fable of Dr Egg was written during this period. Her work has appeared in the Australian National Script Collection in 2001, 2006 and 2010. In 1995 she was Runner up NSW FTO Mentorship awards for Cassie’s Apple, a children’s film script. Awarded mentorship funding Australian Writers Guild, emerging scriptwriter.
Writing for young audiences.
Catherine has written several theatre and film scripts for children and young adults, including Dr Egg and The Man with No Ear, Cassie’s Apple, and Electric Circus. She wrote several episodes for 'XYZ' the long running young women’s TV magazine program in Manila, Philippines. She has written a range of comics for Streetwize Comics, including the award winning Kicking the Blues in 2001. She is currently adapting her puppetry and new media theatre work for family audiences Dr Egg and the Man with No Ear for interactive e publication and developing a children's TV series Bush Boarding School. She is also focusing on developing several of her bio-ethical fables for publication, and writing young adult fiction series Twin Clone. She is the mother of one ten year old Boy, Oliver Joseph, who is a great inspiration to write for children.
As a writer, Catherine has had over twenty scripts produced for radio, puppetry, hybrid performance, theatre and children’s theatre including: Dr Egg and the Man with No Ear, Sydney Opera House Youth Production Unit and Redmoon Theatre Chicago, BioHome: The Chromosome Knitting Project, University of Wollongong Gallery, Experimental Art Foundation/Vitalstatistix (SA), The Jetty, The Violin Playe...
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