CURRENT
BEETLEJUICE
Catie is the associate director for the current North American National Tour of Beetlejuice! She is also the restaging director for the currently running production of Beetlejuice onboard Norwegian Cruise Line’s brand new V!VA ship, which launched in August 2023. She will be setting the Australian production, starring composer Eddie Perfect as Beetlejuice, this spring.
PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT
THE BRASS TEAPOT
Book by Tim Macy & Ramaa Mosley, Music & Lyrics by Chaz Cardigan, Co-Conceived by Erik Kaiko
Alice loves John. John loves Alice. Their only problems are that they are underemployed, their high school bully is the landlord, their former friends are either too rich to care about them or just as broke as they are, and their luck shows no signs of improving. That is, until a seemingly random series of events brings a mysterious ancient object into their life: a brass teapot that magically spouts money when it senses pain. Soon, Alice and John are living debt free…but how far will they go to win unlimited fortune? Break a tooth? Break an arm? Break a heart? Based on the 2012 indie cult film, The Brass Teapot is a magical, mischievous, dark comedy that warns us to be careful what we wish for.
The Brass Teapot was presented at NAMT’s 36th Annual Festival of New Musicals, and is currently in development with Ogonquit Playhouse
ALICE IN NEVERLAND
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Phil Kenny and Reston Williams
In Alice in Neverland - a sequel to Alice in Wonderland and a prequel to Peter Pan - Alice is now grown up and stuck in a life that feels smaller than her childhood dreams. Wondering if her happiest days are behind her, she's pulled not to Wonderland but to Neverland, where adventure and temptation blur. What begins as a fantastical escape into a world of pirates and fairy dust becomes a reckoning with time, memory, and the dangerous wish to never grow up.
Currently in development with The Hal Luftig Company and 42.Club
FORGET ME NOT
Book & Lyrics by Kate Thomas, Music by Joey Contreras
This original musical tells the story of a remote coastal town where a whale washes ashore and brings a burst of attention back to a struggling community. Unsolved murders, tender relationships, and a media frenzy lead to an explosive reveal that makes us wonder what we would do to keep from being forgotten. The creative team has been developing the material together since December 2017 through many workshops and readings. Click here for videos and demos. A workshop production of the musical was presented October 2023 at Manhattan School of Music - photos available here.
INDIGO
Music & Lyrics by Scott Evan Davis, Book by Kait Kerrigan
Beverly braces for chaos when her mother is diagnosed with dementia and moves in with her and her husband. But when her daughter Emma, a non-speaking autistic teenager, crashes back into her life, Beverly must confront her past mistakes and work to repair the bonds of trust and family. In this original musical, Emma is able to share her experiences and inner thoughts with the audience through song and her unique gift of synesthesia.The world premier of Indigo was presented in Spring 2023 at Human Race Theatre Company, and the UK premier is currently playing at the Curve Theatre through 19 July.
“Conceived by Jay Kuo, Lorenzo Thione and Davis, produced by special arrangement with Sing Out, Louise! Productions, and fluidly directed by Catie Davis, “Indigo” tells a refreshing, multigenerational tale of a bruised, broken yet resilient family on the path of reconciliation.” – Russell Florence Jr., Dayton.com
VICKY & FRANK
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Tommy Wallach
Vicky & Frank is a gothic musical comedy set in middle America circa 1950 and loosely based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It follows Vicky Godwin, a brilliant 17-year-old who’s building a reanimation device in her garage. After petitioning the school to allow her to take shop class, Vicky befriends Frank Neetins, a popular boy hiding his own dark secret: he’s gay. Finally, she succeeds in reanimating a dead dog—Prince Charming—who promptly grows to monstrous size and starts eating people. As if that weren’t enough, Vicky misinterprets her burgeoning friendship with Frank as romance…and ends up pushing him off a cliff. (Don’t worry. She reanimates him, too.) But when local police attribute the rash of killings to Frank (instead of Prince Charming), Vicky will have to clear his name herself—all while navigating the murderous canine, a suspicious local journalist, her doting police chief father, her fraying friendships, and her complex feelings for Frank.
Currently in development with the Joey Parnes Office