Catherine Weingarten is a NYC based playwright and a recent graduate of the MFA Playwriting program at Ohio University, studying under Charles Smith and Erik Ramsey. She graduated from Bennington College in 2013 studying under Sherry Kramer. She has taken workshops in playwriting with Samuel D. Hunter, Kara Lee Corthon and Branden Jacob-Jenkins.
She regularly collaborates with Poetic Theater Company, Less Than Rent and Piper Theater Productions. Catherine’s summer camp play “Are You Ready to Get PAMPERED!?” had a reading at 59E59 with Less than Rent and also was part of Dixon Place’s Bingo Lounge. Some of her other plays include: Pineapple Upside Down Cake (KCACTF:national semi-finalist), Janis and the Big BAD World (Semi-finalist at Wide Eyed Productions), A Roller Rink Temptation (NOLA Fringe), This Car Trip Suckss ( Piper Theater Productions Emerging Artist Reading Series), Karate Hottie (OU Seabury Quinn Play Fest) Love Potion Number Slut (Tiny Rhino) and You Looked Hot When You Stole that Dress from Walmart (Fresh Fruit Festival.) She has been involved with Abingdon Playwrights Group as well as New Perspective’s Women’s Work Short Play Lab. She is the recipient of the Scott McPherson award given to a graduate playwright at Ohio University that is a kind and supportive collaborator in the program. catherine-weingarten.squarespace.com
With Poetic Theater Productions:
Playwright of Carry presented in Love, Redefined 2013
Actress in reading in Uncharted 2013
Playwright of Pineapple Upside Down Cake: a virgin play, excerpt presented in Presents… New Works Development Series
Playwright of Feminine Adventures in Reality presented in Love, Redefined 2015
Playwright of I Think About You Way Too Much presented in Love, Redefined 2016
Poet: Good Enough presented in Love, Redefined 2017: RESIST in Poetic License 2017
Playwright of work presented in Judson Arts Wednesdays BAILOUT THEATER Featuring Poetic Theater Productions
Playwright of You and Me on a Mountain presented in November 2017 Judson Arts Wednesdays BAILOUT THEATER Featuring Poetic Theater Productions