Catharine K. Slusar*
Catharine K. Slusar* (Jackie Cochran, Gene Nora Stumbough) is an award-winning actor, director, and professor of theater and a member of Actor’s Equity Association. Catharine has performed over 100 roles in regional theaters, including favorites at Theater Exile (Philadelphia): Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, (Barrymore Best Actress,) Emma in Annapurna, (Barrymore Nominee), Faye in Iron (Barrymore Nominee); InterAct Theater (Philadelphia): in Eureka Day!, Going to St Ives, Frozen, Lebensraum, (Barrymore Best Ensemble, and Best Production, Nominee Best Supporting Actress); The Arden: all roles in The Syringa Tree, (Barrymore Nominee), Hook in Peter Pan, among others. Catharine has also performed in Delaware, NYC, Minneapolis, CT, MI, Russia, and Norway. Catharine is the recipient of The F. Otto Haas Award for Emerging Artists, Barrymore Awards for Best Actress, multiple Barrymore nominations, and an Independence Fellowship. Best of all, she is the mom of remarkable twins Jane and Emory, and wife to Whit MacLaughlin. A native of Connecticut, she studied theater at Yale and has an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard.