Catherine Dudley-Rose

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BIOGRAPHIE

Catherine Dudley-Rose escaped to New York City at a young age, before cell phones and hashtags. With a backpack of plays, her violin, and $100, she started in the North Bronx in search of her creative voice. Invited by Academy Award winner Allison Janney, Catherine wrote, directed, and acted with the Red Earth Ensemble (sponsored by Joanne Woodward) focusing on presenting new work tackling subjects such as the Aids epidemic, censorship, and women’s issues. Her first feature length screenplay, Parallel Chords, received a grant funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. It has international distribution and was theatrically released in Los Angeles, CA after winning several festival awards. She has taught at the renown NY Stage & Film program, and multiple guest artist residencies such as the Broadway Theatre Institute helping 90 kids in the Bronx write their own plays. Her short version of Parallel Chords (overture) won several awards, screened over 40 times in festivals and raised funds for Youth Emergency Services. She is a National Film Challenge winner, won the “Curator’s Pick” cash prize from Women in Film Seattle, been a kick-off speaker for the Citizen Jane Film Festival, and been on several regional film festival panels. She is a proud member of Film Fatales (the only Missouri member). Women and Hollywood highlighted her “Best Feature Writer” win at the LA Femme International Film Festival sponsored by the Writers Guild of America, West. She currently lives in St. Louis where her first feature won Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Narrative Feature, and was selected for the Emerging Director/New Filmmaker’s Forum at the St. Louis International Film Festival. She is a RAC (Regional Arts Commission) grant recipient and she believes in building film community where you live. Catherine has been commissioned to write three other screenplays, optioned her first screenplay, performed for an audience of 80,000 and has additionally created music for independent films, MTV, done string arrangements for Platinum selling Kate Nash, and has a lengthy music and acting bio. These skills inform her work as a writer/director. Several of her shorter works have been performed on stages in NYC, and her solo performance piece (written and performed by Catherine) was selected and developed by Playwright’s Horizons with the late Jean-Claude van Itallie. She has received accolades for her screenwriting from Academy Award nominated producers, to award winning screenwriter, Richard Price. She was selected as an artist/filmmaker in residence with the Kranzberg Arts Foundation working on "Broken Strings."

FILMOGRAPHIE