DIRECTORS

Catherine Eaton is a director, writer, actor, and storytelling activist. She directed and co-wrote the feature THE SOUNDING - starring Harris Yulin (OZARK) and Frankie Faison (THE WIRE) – which won over two-dozen awards on the festival circuit, sold to HBO for international broadcast, myCinema for North American theatrical, and was nominated for the SAMHSA Voice Awards for activism. Catherine was selected as a Shadowing-Director for Ryan Murphy's Half Program and for Tribeca Film Festival's "Through Her Lens" Director’s Lab and Grant. She was also chosen as a Statera Mentee under Showrunner Kit Steinkellner and an inaugural Avalon: Story Fellow and she is one of the first six Regenerative Filmmakers for reGEN Media. Catherine’s pilot FREE RADICAL – based on her personal experience working with freelance news crews in conflict zones – was selected for The Gotham/IFP's Project Forum. Catherine is a Director/Writer at Next Chapter Podcasts where she’s directed seven fiction episodes and wrote/adapted 60 plus episodes. She is also the co-showrunner of the current The Light Ahead podcast series. Catherine has created content for MSG's Garden of Dreams Foundation and shares an Emmy with the production team on "The Human Toll of Ethanol" (Bloomberg TV). As an actor, she has performed on Broadway and around the world. Catherine teaches Screen Directing at Harvard. She is Paraguayan and French-American.