Catie is a New York City based director of contemporary musical theater. She creates deeply empathetic, surprisingly human, and uniquely theatrical stories.
At 17 she co-founded Over the Moon Productions, a theater company composed entirely of young people dedicated to producing relevant musicals for a cause. With OTM, Catie directed and co-produced Rent (Paramount Center for the Arts) and The Who's Tommy (Tarrytown Music Hall), raising thousands of dollars for UNICEF's Unite for Children Unite Against AIDS and NARSAD: the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation. Catie graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a directing concentration at Playwrights Horizons Theater School.
She is drawn to the theater for the singularity of live performance; that magical moment when we go from being a bunch of strangers in a room to one audience.
Catie has worked in theaters across NYC and around the world. Recent directing credits include: Indigo (Human Race Theatre Company), The Magnificent Seven (World Premiere - Flint Rep), and Missed:Connections (Manhattan School of Music). Associate directing includes: Beetlejuice (Broadway & National Tour), Moulin Rouge (Broadway), Company (Broadway, 2020), Baby J (Netflix), Ben Platt Live from Radio City Music Hall (Netflix), The Public Theater, Roundabout Theatre Company, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. She is a 2018 Manhattan Theatre Club Directing Fellow, a Lincoln Center Directors Lab alum, and a proud member of SDC.
There is nothing more thrilling than a musical moment where it feels like every element on stage is caught up in the same breath.
The majority of Catie’s work is directing and developing new contemporary musicals. She believes music is a universal language that can make theater more accessible, and is interested in bridging the gap between pop culture and theater. Catie has developed musicals with writing teams James Sasser & Vince Burwell; Kate Thomas & Joey Contreras; and Eli Kaplan-Wildmann, Yonatan Cnaan & Andrew Zachary Cohen, among others. She actively seeks out new collaborations and opportunities to use theater to bring communities together into a world of empathy and imagination. Head to the “News” page to hear about her latest endeavor.
The calm before the storm in the Marquis Theatre. Can you spot me prepping for rehearsal?