A wild agoraphobic from Choctaw bayou-land in Louisiana moves to the city to search for a cure for her illness, throwing the lives of everyone around her into chaos. Terrified of open spaces and crowds, her desperation to cure herself grows, no matter what the cost, or to whom
Deep in rural Louisiana on a Choctaw Reservation, Toulouse Swanton, an agoraphobic intensely afraid of open spaces and crowds, has found punk-rock coping methods which convince everyone she’s “owning her illness.” Secretly, Toulouse desperately wants to cure herself of her condition. Overwhelmed by the bills piling up for her mother’s care and with limited income options, Toulouse wrote a “travel” article on her hometown. Wildly imaginative and searingly funny, the piece sells to a major publication and goes viral. The editor invites Toulouse to meet to discuss further paid work... but in New Orleans where Toulouse said she was based. Toulouse agrees. From the moment Toulouse agrees to Madison’s offer to write a regular travel column, she seals her fate. Suddenly her huge life force comes crashing up against the hugely crippling resistance within – her condition. Facing an impossible situation, she finds the solution in Sofiya. With her help, Toulouse writes “Destination Ukraine;” Sofiya promotes it; the piece goes viral; Madison wants more of the same. Toulouse knows to do that, she needs primary sources. She has to stay in New Orleans and milk the guests for the travel stories she can’t experience herself, and keep her agoraphobia a secret from everyone. ON THE OUTS is an edgy irreverent character-driven “traumedy” with the deflected desperation of Fleabag and the radical self-examination of I May Destroy You, with a punk vibe. The show revels in the freedom that desperation unleashes.
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.
Tribeca Film Festival Through Her Lens Lab 2019 - Grant Recipient
Avalon Story Center Fellow 2021
Statera Mentee 2020
