Catherine P. Hughes

BACK HOME (Shep Soebel) Helen
CLOUD 9 (Carin Bigrigg) Maude & Lynn
ALL IN THE TIMING (Dir. Kate Eade) Milton & Alma
THE LIVING (Dir Kate Eade & Frank Booker) Sarah Chandler
CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS (Dir, Kestutas Nakas) Ella
CHRISTMAS ON MARS (Lisa Greenman) Audrey
ALL MEN ARE WHORES/WATERENGINE (Dir. Paul Ford) Judy
CRIMINALS OF NEW MEXICO (Dir Grub Graebner) Several Characters
MY SISTER IN THIS HOUSE (Dir. Ellen Dowling) Christine Lutton
UNCLE VANYA (Dir. Marion Bock) Yelena
COME BACK TO THE 5 & DIME JIMMY DEAN (Dir. Tish & Mike Miller) Edna Louise Johnson
ASHES (Dir. Marion Bock) Anne Harding
THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH (Dir. Mike & Tish Miller) Gladys Antrobus

Skills: Cry on demand, stage manage, direct, design sound and lights, cross eyes independently and collectively, whistle, ride a bicycle, hammer a nail, paint, type, skip, do a cat call, baby cry/fuss, do different voices, make funny faces, sing alto soprano, read music, sew, learn fast, hula hoop, jump rope, move eyebrows independently, sit on a horse, do some sound effects, know Pig Latin, take a pulse/blood pressure, shimmy, belly dance, run a light board, hang and focus, wiggle ears, a variety of dialects, swim badly, do a Tarzan call, do a mean cackle...

Studied with: Ann Bogart, Jim Linnell, Kestutis Nakas, Paul Ford, Mac Welman, Brian Hanson, Len Jenkins, Rosemary Tichler, Gordon Kennedy, Bill Hayden, Lucy Hayden, David Richard Jones, Bob Hartung, Susan Pearson, Mary Ann Thompson, Ron Millkie, Lou Criss, Denise Shultz, Kathy Brink.

Education:
M.A. Theatre Arts, Directing and Theatre Education, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
B.F.A. Theatre Arts and English, Cum Laude, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

DIRECTING CREDITS

Othello - a scene
Striptease - a one act
Dialogues - two 15 minute pieces
Sally and Marsha
Two pieces in “In The Blink of an Eye” - an evening of fifteen 10 minute one acts
1) Dylan Thomas at the White Horse Tavern by Enid Howarth
2) Three Minute Godot by Bob Mayberry
Dionysus Festival
1) Humming Hearts by Pat Connelly
Machinal by Sophie Treadwell
Dionysus Festival III
1) Skunk strikes Gold by Greg Golden
2) Subjugation of Guile by Starr Welty
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Capek
Women’s Worx - seven 10 minute plays
1) Dance Lessons for Catherine by Joni McGary
Don't Blink! - eight 10 minute plays
1) Triple Sec by Jack Rushton

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little
Road to Nirvana
A Child's Christmas in Wales

I've been doing theatre since I was knee-high to a grasshopper!