Catherine Epstein is a playwright and educator. 

Her plays explore the strangeness of ordinary life, problems that never resolve, and our many relationships with the natural world. Catherine’s work has been supported by the Huntington Theatre Company, the Forward Theater Company, the Renaissance Theatre Company, Dream Boston, the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, the Catwalk Art Institute, and elsewhere. She is a Huntington Playwriting Fellow from the 2019-2022 cohort and was a 2023 Tennessee Williams Playwriting Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She was a finalist for the 2024 Princess Grace Award in Playwriting.

Catherine has also worked as an educator in classrooms, museums, and nature centers. Her students practice project-based learning, and they have produced podcasts, built museum exhibits, created stop-motion films, and written research papers, analytical essays, personal narratives, plays, and poetry. Catherine is currently an educator at Boxerwood Nature Center, and she is the recipient of a Margot Stern Strom Innovation Grant from Facing History & Ourselves.

Originally from Massachusetts, she now lives in Virginia with her husband and their dog June.