As an award winning /Dora nominated actor and established, diverse director/ producer in Toronto, Catherine brings twenty-four years acting/teaching and coaching experience to the Armstrong Acting Studio. Catherine is a graduate from Queen’s University (First Class Honours/Drama), London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and is a recipient the prestigious Christopher Plummer Fellowship award becoming an international fellow of Shakespeare’s Globe London, England with Mark Rylance. Her recent selected film and television credits The Whistleblower with Rachel Weisz, Best Laid Plans, Webdultery.com, Flashpoint as well as 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 The Diary of Anne Frank (AL Green Theatre, Theatre Aquarius, Shakespeare-in-Action), Who’s Under Where? (Drayton Entertainment), A Winter’s Tale (Canstage, Dream in the Park), 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).

Teaching/coaching credits include 17 years directing and teaching at Young Peoples Theatre, acting teacher for Young Peoples Theatre, Canadian Stage, Claude Watson School for the Arts, Etobicoke School for the Arts, Crescent School, St. Clements Girls School, University of Toronto, Sheridan College, and Learning Through The Arts. Catherine is a recipient of The Tyrone Guthrie award, Christopher Plummer Fellowship Award, Canada Globe Women in Shakespeare, and named one of top ten artists by Now Magazine/Toronto coming in at #3.

Catherine is one of the original acting instructors of AAS who has contributed to design of the program. She is very passionate about the development of her students and is very creative to in her approach to suit the individual needs of each actor. In the beginning her focus has been young actors from 6-12, then extending her expertise to the more mature performer. With her strong theatrical background along with her successful on-camera experience/knowledge, Catherine has successfully helped many actors make the transition from a theatrical approach to a truthful, specific nuanced on-camera performance. She has also coached many actors with different levels of experience toward many successful bookings. Known as the “mom” of AAS, she creates a firm and fun, no-nonsense dynamic in the studio that demands discipline, specificity, truth and originality toward being a master in the work. 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 continuing in the development of each individual actor toward furthering their career.