Catherine McNamara is a theatre performer and maker who graduated from the University of Wollongong’s B.A. Performance in 2015. In 2015, she co-created the immersive children’s show ‘Erth’s Prehistoric Aquarium’ with Drew Fairley and Scott Wright and spent the next five years touring the work to regional Australia, Auckland, the USA, and Abu Dhabi. She has performed in several dance theatre works, including ‘Tangi Wai: the cry of water’, by Victoria Hunt (Performance Space, 2015), and ‘Throne of Thorns’, by Malaysian theatre director Norzizi Zulkifli (ASWARA, 2017). Most recently she has been a performer and creative on ‘Fast Cars and Dirty Beats’, by Kate Smith (coming 2023), and is currently touring with CDP Theatre Producers in their new work ‘Guess How Much I Love You?’

Catherine also facilitates performing arts programs for people with disabilities and people in aged care, through collaborations with Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre and Arts OutWest.

Catherine McNamara is also the choreographer for Local Giants commissioned work VIV!