Brown Face by Carissa Atallah

Cat served as visiting lecturer/guest director for UCR’s TFDP (Theatre, Film, and Digital Production) 170 course - Production. Cat directed the West Coast premiere of Brown Face, collaborated with faculty and visiting artists designers to conceptualize and realize full design and staging of show, and mentored student assistant director and student stage management team. They worked with students through holistic, engaged practices to create an ensemble-based work that illuminated and realized a brand new play while also empowering students through trauma-informed work that utilized modern practices of warmups, cooldowns, de-roling, with an emphasis on student wellness as they explored a radical and difficult text.

Winner of 5 awards at the 2022 National Awards of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival:

• The Citizen Artist Awards - “The Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Awards recognize programs in higher education using theatrical production to promote long-term societal impact through an artistic lens, to encourage empathetic exploration of the complex cultural and physical world, and to advocate for justice on campus and throughout the world.” 

• Special Achievement in the Production of a New Work 

• Special Achievement in Production and Performance Ensemble Unity 

• Special Achievement in Direction by Faculty Artists — Cat Priamos 

• Special Achievement in Individual Performance — Gabriela Machuca