Catherine Barrett

trained at Dartington College of Arts. In 1983 she won the Best Actress prize at Arezzo International Theatre Festival in Italy. Acting roles included the doomed protagonist in The Lady of the House of Love, adapted from the short story by Angela Carter; Anna in an adaptation of Milan Kundera’s The Hitch-hiking Game; the Young Wife and the Sweet Girl in La Ronde; Ada Leverson in Beardsley and Betty in Sleaze and Dreams by Diana Souhami at the Edinburgh Fringe. She has toured Cathedrals as Ophelia in Hamlet and rural Ireland as Rita in Educating Rita.

In 1989 she formed her own company touring the North West with Rube and Aud Entertain Our Nation, a comedy with music about two cinema usherettes in the 1940s which she wrote and appeared in as Ruby Wainwright. In 1992 she deserted the theatre to raise a family and explore other art forms as a photographer. In 2008 she was delighted to join the Widcombe Players and Women on the Make and return to acting.