Catherine Duquette

I specialize in playable/interactive theatre -- bridging performance, live art, and social activism. Borrowing elements of play from game design, I position the audience as my co-players, offer meaningful choice on stage, and create a space for dialogue. Every show offers an element of risk, while demonstrating the possibility and power of moving through that risk.

I am also a writer/narrative designer of award winning mobile games and interactive media for female audiences.

Based in London, I’m originally from the Sonoran desert of the USA and developed my practice in Berlin, Germany -- showing at the English Theatre Berlin, Sophiensaele, MOMENTUM, and more. My time there culminated in major commissions: CELEBRITY BOUND and #INSTALOVE, supported by the Berlin Cultural Senate, which received stellar reviews in Huffington Post and Germany’s national newspaper Der Tagesspiegel respectively.

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#INSTALOVE is “an exciting social experiment and effective artistic coup … Duquette has an impressive talent for motivating complete strangers to emotionally strip on stage and for creating a space to project all possible preferences. Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin

Duquette unabashedly and disarmingly invites her audience into a goal as noble as it is sincere – to be celebrated for her invention of personally interactive art for(u)ms examining social issues. Huffington Post (on CELEBRITY BOUND)

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Credits

Performer & Writer | Mary and Her Monster | initial support by Poplar Union and Omnibus Theatre Clapham | currently in development | 2022 - 2023

Performer & Writer | Dial-a-Future | commissioned by Attenborough Arts Centre - an interactive app-based performance | ongoing | 2021

Performer & Writer | #Instalove | Edinburgh Fringe Festival, English Theatre Berlin, Battersea Arts Centre | 8 weeks | 2016 - 2017

Performer & Writer | Celebrity Bound | English Theatre Berlin + Camden People’s Theatre | 5 weeks | 2015 - 2016

Performer & Writer | The Climb | Let Me in Festival + 18591KM Art Exhibition | 2 weeks | 2015

Performer & Writer | Contact | Month of Performance Art Berlin | 1 week | 2015

Performer & Writer | Meeting the Odyssey | Delphi Theatre + River Spree Berlin | 2 day festival | 2014

Performer, Writer, Multimedia Designer | On Presence, On Paper | MOMENTUM, Month of Performance Art Berlin + TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art, Szczecin, Poland | 2013

Performer, Writer, Multimedia Designer | Six Easy Pieces | English Theatre Berlin + Sophiensaele | 2013

Training

Masters of Arts (MA), Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts -- New York University, New York
Fulbright Fellowship, Madrid, Spain
British American Drama Academy, Oxford, England