Catherine Rush: Writer
"...deliciously complicated, Chekhovian, character-driven writing, full of subtext, wry humor and pathos."
Pamela Berlin
Curiosity and a commitment to craft fuel everything I write
Biography
A forty year career in the American Theater has garnered Catherine Rush awards, commissions, productions and critical acclaim. Catherine’s most recent production Chilmark, received its world premiere at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse in 2018. Prior to that, The Loudest Man on Earth, directed by Pamela Berlin, made its world premiere production at TheatreWorks of Silicon Valley. Voted one of the top ten plays of 2013 by the San Francisco Chronicle, The Loudest Man on Earth also won an Edgerton New American Play Award. Prior to that it was developed at the TheatreWorks’ New Works Festival, New York Theater Workshop’s Readings@3 as well as the NWTW Dartmouth Summer New Play Workshop. Other full-length play productions include: Losing the Shore, commissioned and produced by BCKSEET Productions in Philadelphia; This Island Alone, developed and produced at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse; and A Nice Place to Live, commissioned and produced by Wheelock Family Theatre of Boston.Her one-act play, The Sum of Me, won the Arts and Letters Award for Drama at Georgia College and State University. She’s also a two-time winner of the New American Voices Festival at the Landing Theatre in Houston, a North American Voices Competition finalist in London and a New Play Festival finalist at Fullerton College, CA. Catherine was part of a four-member team translating Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night into American Sign Language with the ASL Shakespeare Project. She’s an adjunct professor at Spalding University at the Naslund-Mann school of Creative and Professional writing. Previously she’s taught playwriting at the Wilma Studio School in Philadelphia, Bainbridge Performing Arts school and As If Theatre in Kenmore, WA. She has presented to audiences at the national MLA conference, Gallaudet University, Ohio State University and at the Monroe Correctional Complex. Catherine has been awarded artist fellowships at Yaddo, Leighton Artist Colony at the Banff Centre, and Arteles, in Hameenkyro, Finland.
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