Playwright Resident 2026–2027
“Catherine Giorgetti is a playwright, actor, dramaturg, educator, and arts administrator. As a multi-hyphenate artist, she is dedicated to making bold and exciting theatre that challenges our expectations of theatre, ourselves, and our history. She works at The Boch Center in downtown Boston as the Education Associate working on social justice through the performing arts with Boston youth. Catherine is a graduate of Northeastern University with a double Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre and History with a minor in Playwriting.
Previous playwriting credits include: Choose & Celebrate: Inspired by Gay Community News (Moonbox New Works Festival Reading 2025; Northeastern University Capstone Festival 2023), Overcome (Stadium Theatre Staged Reading; METG Sherwood Collins Playwriting Contest First Place Winner); Rocky Relationships (Moonbox Productions New Works Festival 2022), and City of Lost Love (Northeastern University Silver Masque). Catherine has worked as a dramaturg with QTCBoston on their inaugural residency play, Remembrance by Ben F. Locke and Someone Will Remember Us by Jenna Schlags. Recent acting credits include: Meeting Notes (Croquette, Fork & Shoe Theatre Co-op), Scenes from Dogs (Northeastern University Silver Masque), and Disco 70s Gay (Northeastern University Silver Masque).
Outside of her work, Catherine enjoys reading, spending time with her family, fiancee, and friends, crafting, and spending time in nature.”
Project Statement
“One of Catherine’s previous playwriting projects, Choose & Celebrate: Inspired by Gay Community News used research into the first few months of Gay Community News – June-August 1973. GCN was a gay liberation newspaper in Boston that quickly grew to a national queer newspaper and ran until 1998. Choose & Celebrate began as a capstone project examining the ethics of using archival research for historical fiction theatre, and grew into a full length play that took a look at the way that queer joy persists during community hardship and tragedy.
Building off of her research for Choose & Celebrate, Catherine will be looking at Gay Community News from 1983-1984 for this project. How did Boston’s queer community change and grow in the 10 years between the plays? There was an office fire in 1984, how did that affect the paper? How were AIDS and AIDS activism present in Boston’s gay liberation movement? And so many more questions. She is excited to dive back into the archives and see what GCN has for inspiration in a different decade. Boston has a rich queer history, and Catherine is excited to discover a new part of that history and bring it to the stage.”