Cat Rodríguez
Cat Rodríguez
Cat Rodríguez (she/ella) werqs as a feral actor + director, serving collaboration, community, and lqqks. Cat's a co-foundress of the queer theater + digital media production company Fake Friends. With the collective, she co-created and performed in the company’s original play “Circle Jerk” (2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Finalist), which premiered online in October 2020 and off-Broadway for an in-person production in June 2022. Cat has also featured in Fake Friends' “A Doll's House, Part 3” (2018-21) and appeared in “This American Wife” (2021). She originated the voice for supervillainess Dr. Pilar ("El Verde vs. Dr. Pilar," CTG) and was typecast as a twink lord and pleasure god in the independent short film “Provincetown '99.”
A "people person" with a politic and a love for the Ridiculous, Cat's all about bringing critical rigor, discernment, playfulness, and specificity to process. Black / Latinx feminisms as well as collectivist organizing experiences fundamentally inform her artmaking and pathtaking. Cat lives and labors in english y español, talks with her hands, and also anda con ganas. Formally trained as a dramaturg at Yale School of Drama and Carnegie Mellon (where she’s taught, too), Cat stays undomesticated and un-disciplined; she’s a feral force. A freelancing femme, Cat considers herself a nomad but always names New Orleans and Nicaragua home. Cat is currently a Latine Fellow through Sundance. Recent residencies and fellowships: 2022 CultureHub Resident Artist (Fake Friends); 2022 Mercury Store Resident Artist (Fake Friends); 2021-22 Art of Practice Fellow + Community Leader, Sundance Interdisciplinary Program.
