08/05/2024
Meet Cathy Hunt, director of The Diotima Prize play readings.
Cathy Hunt is a director and dramaturg, who trained at the VCA. Her work is feminist and unexpected, exploring vulnerable subjectivities and heightened states.
Recent work includes 7 Captiva Rd by Andrea Ciannavei, (Chapel off Chapel), Little Brother, Big Sister & She Wrote The Letter (La Mama), What Every Girl Should Know, (Brunswick Mechanics); Love/Chamberlain by Bridget Mackey, Phantasmagoria (Theatre Works); and site-specific works Her Father’s Daughter by Keziah Warner, Prahran Council Chambers and Steppe by Grace Pundyk, Newport railyards.
Cathy co-created (I’m Going to Die In This Bracket) with Shannon Loughnane, performed in their backyard and nominated for Best Theatre, Melbourne Fringe, 2020. As alter ego Beige Brown Cathy created / performed Ms Beige Brown Goes Beyond at Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Cathy co-created Super Q***r Murderess Show with Luisa Hastings Edge & Nate Gilkes for Melbourne Fringe: Arts House. She was Assistant Director on Lorelei, Victorian Opera and Associate Artist on Dybbuks, Chamber Made. Cathy was dramaturg for LuNa by Keziah Warner, which won the Patrick White Playwrights Award. Les Mamelles de Tiresias, which she directed for Lyric Opera won a Green Room award for ‘Contribution to Development of Opera in Victoria’.
Upcoming work includes Recollection at fortyfivedownstairs in June-July 2024
For more information and to register follow the link in the bio👆
