Catherine Andre is an American theater and film writer/director. She aims to use the vocabularies of cinema and stage to make audiences empathize with women rejected, scorned, and otherwise marginalized. Her hope is to use the highly personal to bring audiences in touch with the mystical — with the unsolvable great mysteries of what it means to be alive.
After studying film directing at Interlochen Arts Academy, Catherine began directing theater at Princeton, where she quickly became fascinated with European theater and nonverbal theatrical languages. She received a Fulbright grant to work with European auteur directors and learn how to craft poetry in live performance, putting these methods into practice within radical, feminist adaptations of classical texts. She aims to bring this continental theatricality and auteur tradition to female stories with which audiences can empathize, with characters who are subjects rather than objects, as they go through perennial, difficult and ubiquitous experiences. She is committed to drama, emotion, individual complexity, our shared human condition across time and cultural barriers, and the notion of art and art-making as sacrifice.
Catherine is an alumna of the Fulbright Scholar Program, Princeton University, the Drama League Residencies, Interlochen Arts Academy, the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and the Puffin Foundation.
She was recently awarded a grant by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. See press here.
She is currently studying film directing at FAMU in Prague, Czech Republic.
catherineandre4@gmail.com
+1 (703) 963-4637
