Catriona is Literary Manager of the touring theatre company Out of Joint. She was on the literary panel of the Royal National Theatre for 15 years and has also served as Senior Reader for several theatres and play writing competitions such as The Verity Bargate Award.
From 2004, as Associate Director of Love and Madness Ensemble she worked as dramaturg and/or director on new adaptations of Wuthering Heights, Shakespeare’s Henry V and Dickens’ Hard Times (all national tours). Her adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein toured for six months across the UK and Ireland.
She was Literary Manager of the Finborough Theatre from 1998 where she ran It’s the End of the World as We Know It, a commissioning cycle of short plays by new writers. She was also dramaturg on several new productions, and presented rehearsed readings the European premiers of several emerging Canadian writers, including Michael Lewis MacLennan.
As a TV script editor she has worked for BBC Comedy and RTE, most recently on the drama series, Legend, which was nominated for Best TV Drama at the Irish IFTAs in 2007.
Following an MFA in Filmmaking from the Screen Academy Scotland, in June 2008 Catriona was selected to be a Trailblazer, an initiative of the EIFF and Skillset to highlight the best new talent emerging from UK Screen Academies.
Her short film The Problem with Pets was screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2008. It has since screened at festivals in the USA (Best Comedy Short, SOAPIFF) Northern Ireland, Leicester, Beijing (Audience Award, ISFVF), Canada, Germany (Special Mention, Children’s Jury Prize, Oberhausen) and Austria.
Catriona studied Drama at Royal Holloway, University of London and trained on the Royal National Theatre Studio and Royal Court Theatre New Directors’ Schemes.
She has also lectured at universities including Royal Holloway, University of London, Middlesex University and Buckinghamshire New University.
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