Catherine Dyson
Catherine is a writer, performer and theatre maker. As a performer/deviser she has worked with artists and companies such as Uninvited Guests, David Rosenberg, Punchdrunk and National Theatre Scotland. In recent years she has focused more on writing and creating her own work.
Catherine was part of Theatr Iolo's Platfform development programme, out of which she created Transporter, a solo show for age 10 to adult. Transporter has toured Wales and England. In 2019 Theatr Iolo took it to Kolkata, and it has recently been translated into German for production in Austria. The experience of creating the show inspired Catherine to make more work for young audiences, including In Ruins (a site-specific performance in the ruins of an abbey), We Are The Searchers, which was commissioned by a school for a cast of thirty girls, and Our Curiosities – a writing and photography project in collaboration with a group of young people with autism, developed through National Theatre Wales.
Catherine is also Associate Artist with RedCape Theatre, for whom she has written Be Brave and Leave for the Unknown (UK tour) and dark comedy Thunder Road, which she also performs in and which has completed three UK tours.
Catherine was part of the BBC Writersroom Welsh Voices 2018/19, and BBC Comedy Room 2019/20, through which she has developed television scripts. She was part of Sherman New Welsh Playwrights Programme 2016. In 2019 she was shortlisted for the Wales Writer in Residence Award, receiving a Special Commendation for her radio script A Better Land.
Other writing credits include an audio drama adaptation of Mansfield Park for Audible, Light Waves Dark Skies (Chapter, co-written with Matt Ball), radio play If We Were Fish for BBC Radio Wales, short plays My Electric Soul (Sherman), The Red Hair and Tupelo (both for Dirty Protest), and audio short An Attempt on the Life of Shirley Temple (BBC Writersroom).
Current work in development includes The Vanishers for Theatr Iolo (a new play for teenagers), The Luminous for RedCape Theatre, and a musical for The Riverfront about a lost bitcoin fortune.