Catherine is a multi-award-winning performer, director and writer. She studied Drama at Manchester University and trained at L'Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. She was Artistic Director of Quiconque (PUSH, Biscuits of Love, Hideaway and Big Bad Duvet Terror) and has worked with Complicité for over thirty years. Shows with Complicité include I’ll Take You To Mrs Cole, Tomorrow I’ll Be Twenty, The Master and Margarita, A Disappearing Number, The Elephant Vanishes, The Chairs, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Out of a house walked a man…. Other directing includes Hexenhammer, Secretariat, The Gypsy Bible, Opera North, Touching Space Royal Academy of Art and The Boy from Centreville, Pleasance. Other work includes Is That All There Is? Volcano Theatre, Rhinoseros and Romeo a Juliet, Theatre Cymru, Wild Oats, Bristol Old Vic, Coram Boy, National Theatre and Adventures in Moominland and Super Troupers for the Southbank. Catherine won the Young Vic, Jerwood Prize in 2006 for work on Amédée and the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award in 2011 for her devised production SOLD. Catherine recently co-directed Rebel Voices for Complicité at Hoxton Hall. She is currently collaborating with Welsh language theatre legend Eddie Ladd on Llain Macyn a site-specific performance in a cow shed. She is a citizen scientist and member of Achub y Tywi working on improving water quality and biodiversity.