Catherine Weidner
Catherine Weidner is a teacher, director and actor. Recent professional credits include roles in Little Women, Third and Other Desert Cities at the Hangar Theatre, as well as directing Merry Wives of Windsor, Othello, As You Like It. and Two Gentlemen of Verona for Theatre at Monmouth in Maine. Other professional credits include: directing an adaptation of Henry V for Austin Shakespeare, Jane Austen’s Emma for Nebraska Repertory Theatre; Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, and Merry Wives of Windsor for the Illinois Shakespeare Festival; and Or, at Caffeine Theatre in Chicago.
Prior to 2013, she worked at The Kennedy Center in A Streetcar Named Desire with Patricia Clarkson, Amy Ryan and Noah Emmerich, directed by Tony-Award-winner Garry Hynes; at Center Stage in Baltimore in Blithe Spirit, and Mary Stuart; and at Arena Stage in Washington, DC in The Heidi Chronicles, directed by Tazewell Thompson. She has worked at The Guthrie Theater, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, the La Jolla Playhouse, and with Bread & Puppet. She holds a BFA in Acting from Ithaca College and an MFA in Directing from the University of Minnesota, and has also trained at Complicite in London, The Second City in Chicago and The Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. For ten years she was the Program Director of The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting at the George Washington University, offering a one-year MFA in Classical Acting. From 2007- 2013 she taught Classical Acting and Heightened Text at The Theatre School at DePaul University, where she served as Head of BFA Acting. For Ithaca College Theatre, she has directed Caesar, Twelfth Night, Cabaret, Company, and As You Like It, and taught Audition Techniques, Acting I, Freshmen Scene Study, Sophomore Scene Study, Sophomore Voice & Speech, Styles of Acting I: The Greeks & Shakespeare, Introduction to Theatre, Directing I, and Special Topics: Shakespeare Intensive. She served at Chair of Theatre Arts from 2013-2021, and as the Interim Director of the Ithaca College London Center in 2021-22. She is a member of Equity, SAG-AFTRA, and has been certified as a Consent-Forward Artist by Intimacy Directors and Coordinators.
Prior to 2013, she worked at The Kennedy Center in A Streetcar Named Desire with Patricia Clarkson, Amy Ryan and Noah Emmerich, directed by Tony-Award-winner Garry Hynes; at Center Stage in Baltimore in Blithe Spirit, and Mary Stuart; and at Arena Stage in Washington, DC in The Heidi Chronicles, directed by Tazewell Thompson. She has worked at The Guthrie Theater, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, the La Jolla Playhouse, and with Bread & Puppet. She holds a BFA in Acting from Ithaca College and an MFA in Directing from the University of Minnesota, and has also trained at Complicite in London, The Second City in Chicago and The Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. For ten years she was the Program Director of The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting at the George Washington University, offering a one-year MFA in Classical Acting. From 2007- 2013 she taught Classical Acting and Heightened Text at The Theatre School at DePaul University, where she served as Head of BFA Acting. For Ithaca College Theatre, she has directed Caesar, Twelfth Night, Cabaret, Company, and As You Like It, and taught Audition Techniques, Acting I, Freshmen Scene Study, Sophomore Scene Study, Sophomore Voice & Speech, Styles of Acting I: The Greeks & Shakespeare, Introduction to Theatre, Directing I, and Special Topics: Shakespeare Intensive. She served at Chair of Theatre Arts from 2013-2021, and as the Interim Director of the Ithaca College London Center in 2021-22. She is a member of Equity, SAG-AFTRA, and has been certified as a Consent-Forward Artist by Intimacy Directors and Coordinators.
Movies for Catherine Weidner...
Title: There is a Hole in the Ground
Character: Janice
Released: April 4, 2022
Type: Movie
While mowing her lawn Janice uncovers a hole in the ground and is forced to navigate its ever-looming sounds and presence.
Title: The Night House
Character: Teacher
Released: July 15, 2021
Type: Movie
Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. Soon she begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.
Title: Till the End of Time
Character: Mary
Released: February 20, 2020
Type: Movie
Mary struggles coming to terms with the deteriorating mind of her ailing husband.
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