Playwright
"The stories I want to hear, have not been written... yet."
La luz verde
"I really wanted to keep the theme of we’re all in the search of something greater, and do we find it in other people or do we find it in ourselves?”
In 2022, Catia was commissioned by RILA to write a bilingual adaptation of The Great Gatsby that would mark the return of the touring into Hispanic communities aspect of Teatro En El Verano. Her love for the book was born in high school, and she had seen countless versions of the show, but never the one she dreamed of in her head. One where it's messages spoke more relevantly to the here and now and the people who have to reckon with the ramifications of the illusion of the American Dream. So she set out on a quest to write that version. A Gatsby through a Hispanic lens that has to deal with how these themes resonate when intertwined with intersectionality. For more about La Luz Verde click here.
Good
The first scene came bursting out of Catia in college for her playwriting class. She had no idea that those ten minutes would then become this behemoth of a play that would take 5 years to reach its conclusion. Some call it a dramedy, Catia calls it life. "I have a tough time trying to describe this play but at it's core it's about a family struggling to get their one teenage male relative: the brother, the son, the cousin, the thug, the child, the convict, the God out of jail. Do they even want him out of jail? Is going to prison a family affair?"
She considers herself lucky enough to have done a stage reading of the first act at the Contemporary Theatre Company in 2019. Then a full stage reading for the first play series she produced in 2022. Both audiences were highly perceptive and increased the run time with copious laughter. Catia states it's still not completely finalized but that, "I hope to give it a home and a fully staged production one day."
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Scared Straight
The first thing she ever wrote outside of fan fiction was Scared Straight. For her directing final she was supposed to direct a one act but said she could only find dated and stuffy material. So she chose to write her own comedic one act and likes to think of it as a pilot for a sitcom. About a girl named Eve who is scared into performing heterosexuality or rather her nosy and proud roommate, Jen with the help of "broke but never a joke" Anders trick Eve into going on a date (a prospect Eve finds terrifying but no one really knows why) because no one really knows Eve's deal. But maybe Eve doesn't know her deal either?
In the midst of the pandemic Catia wrote and shot a Quarantine episode through FaceTime but audio got disrupted and this is the only clip that made thru the final editing floor.