An award winning, established actor/director/ producer in Toronto, Catherine brings twenty years in arts education to the Armstrong Acting Studio. Teaching credits include 12 years directing and teaching at Young Peoples Theatre, acting teacher for Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People. Canadian Stage, Claude Watson School for the Arts, Etobicoke School for the Arts, Crescent Boys School, St. Clements Girls School, University of Toronto, Sheridan College, and Learning Through The Arts. Select film and television credits include The Company, Roxanna, Kojak, Doc, Love, Sex and Eating the Bones, Odyssey 5, Soul Food, Moms on Strike, 52 Pick Up, Enslavement, Due South, Earth: Final Contact, On Their Knees, Have Mercy. With three films premiering at The Toronto International Film Festival. Catherine has performed across Canada, in the United States and overseas. Select theatre credits include A Christmas Carol (Geva Theatre, NY, three seasons), The Merry Wives of WIndsor (DareDen), The Rope (Buddies Bad Times) End of Dancing (Shaw Festival), Hunger Striking (Theatre Passe Muraille) Life Sentences (Factory Theatre), The Winters' Tale/ Cymbeline/Two Noble Kinsmen (Shakespeare in the Rough), Shakespeare's Master of Play (Shakespeare's Globe, UK), Jewel (Theatre Aquarius, National Tour), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Stratford Festival, assistant director) and The Orphan Muses (Dora Award best actress nominee,Topological Theatre), Flashpoint and One Night.
Catherine is a recipient of The Tyrone Guthrie award and is an International Fellow of Shakespeare's Globe in London, England. Recently she directed The Vagina Monologues and has been chosen as one of the lucky 16 directors across Canada to attend The International Directors' Master class in Ottawa, this June. A dominant actor in all aspects of the industry in Canada, Catherine is extremely excited to be involved with the Armstrong Acting Studio and is looking forward to sharing her many years of teaching with her students.
