Catherine Epstein is a playwright and educator. 

Her plays explore the strangeness of ordinary life, problems that never resolve, and our complex and changing relationships to 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 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.

Catherine has also worked as an educator in classrooms, museums, and nature centers. In all of these contexts, she cultivates dynamic, student-centered learning that reflects the authentic experiences of young people. Her students have produced podcasts, built museum exhibits, created stop-motion films, and written in a range of styles including plays, analytical essays, personal narratives, and poetry. Catherine 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.