Cat Rodríguez
Cat Rodríguez
Cat Rodríguez (she/ella) werqs as a feral actor + director, serving collaboration, community, and lqqks. Cat's a co-foundress of the queer theater + digital media production company Fake Friends. With the collective, she co-created and performed in the company’s original play “Circle Jerk” (2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Finalist), which premiered online in October 2020 and off-Broadway for an in-person production in June 2022. Cat has also featured in Fake Friends' “A Doll's House, Part 3” (2018-21) and appeared in “This American Wife” (2021). She originated the voice for supervillainess Dr. Pilar ("El Verde vs. Dr. Pilar," CTG) and was typecast as a twink lord and pleasure god in the independent short film “Provincetown '99.”
A "people person" with a politic and a love for the Ridiculous, Cat's all about bringing critical rigor, discernment, playfulness, and specificity to process. Black / Latinx feminisms as well as collectivist organizing experiences fundamentally inform her artmaking and pathtaking. Cat lives and labors in english y español, talks with her hands, and also anda con ganas. Formally trained as a dramaturg at Yale School of Drama and Carnegie Mellon (where she’s taught, too), Cat stays undomesticated and un-disciplined; she’s a feral force. A freelancing femme, Cat considers herself a nomad but always names New Orleans and Nicaragua home. Cat is currently a Latine Fellow through Sundance. Recent residencies and fellowships: 2022 CultureHub Resident Artist (Fake Friends); 2022 Mercury Store Resident Artist (Fake Friends); 2021-22 Art of Practice Fellow + Community Leader, Sundance Interdisciplinary Program.
The Olympians
Monsters
Press
THE ACROPOLIS LIGHTS US ALL
Open calls
The Onassis Foundation subsidizes the reconstruction of the Young People’s Stage of the National Theater
Theater, Performance
PERSEIDS or HOW TO PARTY HARD
Onassis Stegi
Performance
FFF6 | Sudden Rise
Onassis Stegi