Catherine Moore
Ms. Moore has been on the faculty of the School of Drama since 2000 specializing in physical approaches to actor training and promotes the creation of self-generated artistic work by students. She has been the Co-Faculty Coordinator/Advisor for the School’s PLAYGROUND: A Festival of Independent Student Work since its inception in 2003. In 2023 Moore was honored with Carnegie Mellon’s William H. and Francis S. Ryan award for Meritorious Teaching.
Moore teaches The Viewpoints, Laban, Suzuki, Stage Combat in the movement sequence in the Acting/MT program, having also taught Acting II, III, and directed Junior Performance Projects. She has served as Fight Choreographer or Movement Director for over 85 productions. Internationally, Moore has conducted workshops and master classes in The Viewpoints at the New National Theatre of Tokyo Drama Studio, The Korzo Theatre in Den Haag, The Netherlands, Il Melograno Scuola di Recitazione in Rome, Italy, and at the Meeting of European Theatre Academies (META), in Florence, Italy.
She has acted in plays and musicals in regional theatres throughout the United States and locally in Pittsburgh at the Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre and Quantum Theatre. Internationally, Moore performed in an acclaimed production of Brian Friel’s Faith Healer which toured across the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland.
As Fight Director, her work has been seen at The Cleveland Playhouse (“The Diary of Anne Frank”), Pittsburgh Public (“Disgraced”), Pittsburgh Opera (“The Rape of Lucretia” and “I Capuleti e I Montecchi”), City Theatre Company (“The Night Alive,” :Marcus, or the Secret of Sweet,” and “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”), and Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre (“The Lieutenant of Inishmore” and “The Pillowman”).
Moore has been commissioned to create narrations and spoken word adaptations for orchestral concerts with the Chicago and Boston and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestras: “Romeo & Juliet: Shakespeare in Words and Music,” and “Women Composers” with Boston Pops Music Director Keith Lockhart, the narration for and direction of a concert version of Bizet’s “Carmen” for the Milwaukee Symphony for Andreas Delfs, and a narration based on the letters of Johannes Brahms and Clara Schuman for the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada under Maestro Pinchas Zucherman.
Moore is a member of the Actors Equity Association, the Society of American Fight Directors, and the Association of Theatre Movement Educators. She received her B.F.A. Magna Cum Laude from Wright State University, trained under Beatrice Straight at the Michel Chekhov Studio in New York, with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company, and received her M.F.A. in Dramatic Performance from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music where she is the recipient of the Julia Winter Cohen Alumni Award for Career Excellence.