Cat Black

Hi all! I'm a Canadian-American actor, director and acting instructor and a proud member of SAG-AFTRA, AEA, ACTRA, CAEA and the Alliance of Women Directors.

I've been coaching actors for 20 years and currently teach with Stuart Rogers Studios in Los Angeles. I teach a comprehensive acting methodology that works with any acting approach to get the circumstances of the story into your body so you can play more freely. I'm devoted to my evolution as an educator – to continue to learn how to best serve all actors while creating safe spaces for actors to be their most creative. I love script analysis, have a keen sense of what is needed in a scene and how to get actors where they need to go.

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Catherine Black AKA Cat Black (she/they) is a Canadian-American director-writer, actor, visual artist and acting teacher in Los Angeles and Toronto. She is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA, AEA, ACTRA, CAEA and the Alliance of Women Directors. One of Catherine’s first roles as an actor was playing Vanden in American Psycho, directed by Mary Haron, where she first realized she wanted to direct one day.

Catherine has been a professional actor since 1994, best known for American Psycho, The Donner Party, Odyssey 5 and most recently, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, in what fans hail as “the best Trek episode of the century.” A recent career highlight was performing in the LA Alliance Ovation award wining Best Production And Then They Came For Me with MainStreet theatre, doing talkbacks with Holocaust survivors and scholars after each performance for a thousand children a day.

Catherine’s extensive practice as an actor and artist has rooted their vision in filmmaking. She was lucky to shadow a few talented directors early in their career, and went on to produce commercials, short films and music videos before directing their first narrative film in 2012. Catherine has written and directed 2 short films – the ‘sexy and surreal’ awarding winning film, De Puta Madre a Love Story, and Girl Trip, a dark comedy about female friendships, that took home 5 awards and acquired worldwide SVOD/VOD distribution. Catherine was also hired to direct Like Nothing Happened, a short relationship drama that won Best Drama at 2021 Rock The Shorts Film Festival and is distributed on The Reel Women’s Network, and she is in pre-production in Toronto for The Test, a short film about sisters, abortion and opposing beliefs. Catherine is currently in preproduction for a film that she wrote and will direct inspired by a true family story about two young brothers who survived the Holocaust. Catherine divides their time between Los Angeles and Toronto, always working on various projects for both markets, as a director-writer and actor.

https://catherineblack.com/
https://www.directedbycatherineblack.com/

CANADA Integral Artists Management Simona Crone simonacrone@integralartists.com USA / UK Vamos Talento Elizabeth Martin & Renu Chawla elizabeth@vamostalento.com , vamostalento@gmail.com

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Credits Include

Year
Credit
2023 [added]
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
TV Series
2021 [IMDB]
L.A.: A Queer History
Film
2021 [added]
BitterSweet
Film Supporting Lead
2020 [IMDB]
Debt Collectors
Film
2020 [added]
And Then They Came For Me
Theatre Lead
2019 [IMDB]
American Gangster: Trap Queens
Film
2018 [IMDB]
Girl Trip
Film
2018 [IMDB]
Girl Trip
Film
2018 [IMDB]
Girl Trip
Film
2018 [IMDB]
Girl Trip
Film
2018 [IMDB]
Blackstocking Jenkins
Short
2017 [IMDB]
[Caul Unknown]
Film
2017 [IMDB]
[Caul Unknown]
Short
2017 [IMDB]
Lo$T BoyZ
TV Series
2017 [IMDB]
A Break in White
Short
2016 [IMDB]
Neurotica
TV Series
2016 [IMDB]
The Wiggling Gypsy
Short
2016 [IMDB]
Intrusions of Grandeur
Short
2015 [IMDB]
Gypsi
TV Series
2015 [IMDB]
Playing House
TV Series
2014 [IMDB]
De Puta Madre: A Love Story
Short
2014 [IMDB]
Shock Value
Film
2014 [IMDB]
Teen Wolf
TV Series
2014 [IMDB]
Mary Loss of Soul
Film
2014 [IMDB]
Join Us
Short
2014 [IMDB]
De Puta Madre: A Love Story
Film
2014 [IMDB]
De Puta Madre: A Love Story
Film
2014 [IMDB]
De Puta Madre: A Love Story
Film
2010 [IMDB]
Pizza with Bullets
Film
2009 [IMDB]
Actors Entertainment
Film
2009 [IMDB]
The Donner Party
Film
2009 [IMDB]
Ten for Grandpa
TV Short
2009 [IMDB]
Stay Cool
Film
2008 [IMDB]
Dawgs Playing Poker
Film
2006 [IMDB]
Live! From the Future
Film
2005 [IMDB]
Show Me Yours
TV Series
2004 [IMDB]
Ham & Cheese
Casting Complex
2004 [IMDB]
Tracks
Short
2003 [IMDB]
True Crimes: The First 72 Hours
TV Series docu
2003 [IMDB]
Odyssey 5
TV Series
2002 [IMDB]
The Scream Team
TV Movie
2002 [IMDB]
I Love Mummy
TV Series
2002 [IMDB]
Adam & Eve
Film
2001 [IMDB]
Blue Murder
TV Series
2001 [IMDB]
Unité 156
TV Series
2000 [IMDB]
Loser
Film
2000 [IMDB]
American Psycho
Film
1999 [IMDB]
Enfer et contre tous!
Film
1999 [IMDB]
Letters to a Street Child
Short
1998 [IMDB]
Highlander: The Raven
Film
1998 [IMDB]
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV Series