The award-winning French Algerian American playwright, librettist and activist, Catherine Filloux, has been, for the past 3 decades, traveling to conflict areas writing plays that address human rights and social justice.\xa0
\xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 Catherine\u2019s new play, \u201cHow to Eat an Orange,\u201d will open at La MaMa Theatre in New York City, and her new musical \u201cWelcome to the Big Dipper\u201d (written with composer Jimmy Roberts of, \u201cI Love You, You\u2019re Perfect, Now Change\u201d fame) will premiere Off-Broadway at the York Theatre in New York. It\u2019s a National Alliance for Musical Theatre finalist.\xa0
\xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 Catherine\u2019s play, \u201cWhite Savior\u201d is nominated for The Venturous Play List. Her many plays have been produced around the U.S. and internationally. I\u2019ve read her play Lemkin\u2019s House and can tell you it\u2019s an intense and engaging exploration of the politics of genocide through the surreal landscape of the mind of Raphael Lemkin, the man who invented the word genocide.
\xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 Catherine\u2019s also the librettist for four produced operas, including New Arrivals, Where Elephants Weep, and The Floating Box. Her works have been played on Cambodian national TV, on Broadway on Demand, and chosen for Opera News Critic\u2019s Choice. And her opera, \u201cOrlando,\u201d is the winner of the 2022 Grawemeyer Award--the first opera by a woman composer and woman librettist in the history of the Vienna Staatsoper.\xa0
\xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 Catherine has traveled for her plays to countries including Bosnia, Cambodia, Guatemala, Haiti, Iraq, Morocco, Northern Ireland, and Sudan and South Sudan on an overseas reading tour with the University of Iowa's International Writing Program.\xa0
\xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0 Catherine received her French Baccalaureate in Philosophy with Honors in Toulon, France, and is the co-founder/co-director of Theatre Without Borders.\xa0