Fulbrighter Catherine Rogers
BIOGRAPHY OF CATHERINE ROGERS 2012
Catherine Rogers is a playwright and performer who has lived and worked in New York City for the past 18 years. Her solo performance The Sudden Death of Everyone was seen Off-off Broadway at Dixon Place in New York before touring to Athens, Thessaloniki, and Paros, Greece. Her other plays include Stand-up, Heloise, and the Mystery of the Universe (Playwrights Horizons Forum), A Barbershop Quartet (Synergy), Beauty Tips (At-Random Theatre Texas), Imaginary Friends (Theatre for Young Audience tour, Texas schools), Gambit Declined Gambit (with Eric Wiley, Jalapeno Festival), Iowa Caucus (Austin Critics Circle nomination Best New Play), The John Gaffney Piece, Cowpoker: About Love (Nat Horne, Best of Fest at Hyde Park Theatre), Georgia O’Keeffe x Catherine Rogers (NJIT Rutgers, CMA Texas), Historia Calamitatum: The Story of HIS Misfortunes (Salvage Vanguard, Women’s Project), Burnt (with Robi Polgar, Public Domain Theatre, Austin Circle of Theatres nomination Best New Play), Eva Hesse (HERE American Living Room, 78Th Street Theatre Lab), Rich, La Notte di San Lorenzo, and May I Have This Dance (Manhattan Theatre Source). She was commissioned by the Public Domain Theatre for her play Einstein’s Daughter which was later developed at the Cleveland Public Theatre. She has also developed work at House of Literature Paros, Il Chiostro Italy, Pantheatre Paris, Women’s Studio Workshop, and with Irene Fornes. Her plays are anthologized in Voices Made Flesh (U Wisconsin Press) and Spontaneous Combustion (New York: Manhattan Theatre Source).
As an actor, in addition to her solo work, Rogers has been a frequent cast member in Sharon Fogarty's Making Light & Co (Where Sleeping Gods Lie, How to See in the Dark, Sep' ul kur, Spotlight-On best lead actress nomination). She was a dancer in Robert Wilson's 4 Saints in 3 Acts and appeared in several episodes of Mercy (NBC-TV).
She was Assistant Professor of Humanities at New York University where she now teaches creative writing workshops. In addition she has taught writing at the Parsons School of Design, Pratt University, Missouri Western State University, Nea Philadelphia Community Theatre in Athens, and others. Rogers was also a playwright-in-the-schools developing curriculum for Theatre for a New Audience, New York, and she edited artists-in-education materials for the Lincoln Center Institute.
Recent honors include a Fulbright Fellowship for her guest artist residencies at Aristotle University Thessaloniki and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens where she offered the creative writing workshops “Peforming (My) World History.” She was guest lecturer with the US Embassy in Greece Days of American Culture in 2010. Rogers received the Fulbright Foundation Senior Specialist status for playwriting in 2011.
A James A. Michener Fellow at the Texas Center for Writers where she received the MFA in Playwriting, she currently studies in the Masters of Science program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University.