Catherine Weingarten is passionate about theater education and making playwriting more fun, joyful and accessible to all her students. She is currently an Assistant Teaching Artist with Marquis Studios as well as Apollo Theater. She has previously worked as an educator with New South Young Horizon Playwrights Festival as an MFA Mentor, Art House Productions, Pine Forest Summer Camp, Realize Your Beauty and Ohio University. She has an MFA in Playwriting from Ohio University and certificates from Community Word Projects Teaching Artist Program and Marquis Studio’s TATI program for Students with Disabilities.
She also designs her own quirky playwriting workshops such as “Adding Dessert to your Plays,” “Writing Annoying Characters” and “Sex as a Metaphor.”
She is available for workshops, one on one sessions and Teaching Artist work.
UPCOMING PUBLIC CLASSES
-March 2023, 4 week Playwriting Workshop with the Creative Center (for Cancer patients and their caretakers)
Thursday March 30th, 5-7:30pm, Adaptation Workshop.
Testimonials
Catherine Weingarten was massively influential on me as a writer when she was my TA in undergrad. I’m a comedian and my sketch writing still benefits from her teaching five years after I took her class. There is truly only one Catherine! She creates an inclusive, positive, and whimsical environment and I hope to work with her again in future. I’ve also acted in her pieces several times and always had the MOST fun with her heightened language and candy-flavored storytelling. She encourages students to find joy and be bold.
- Daisy
Art House Production Virtual Playwriting Workshop