Artist Statement
Whether I’m wearing the hat of director, producer, designer, or anything in between, I make work that empowers the person inside me who was socialized to be quiet and ashamed of having opinions. I work at the intersection of performance, activism, and administration to bring into view a world where all people are liberated from oppression and can tell thier stories without fear or shame.
Image Courtesy of Asian Arts Initiative and Louis Kang
Bio
Cat Ramirez is a Philly-based director and producer who specializes in new plays, devised work, multidisciplinary performance, and event production. They have turned boiler rooms into dilapidated mansions, studios & galleries into living achieves of local Asian American histories, and bars into dreamscapes for queer love stories.
Image courtesy of Stephanie Kyung-Sun Walters
As a theatre director, they have worked with Simpatico Theatre, Power Street Theatre Company, Lxs Primxs, Arcadia University, Villanova University, Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, Director’s Gathering (among others). As a creative producer and arts administrator, they have worked with Orbiter 3, InterAct Theatre Company, Lightning Rod Special, Obvious Agency, and Asian Arts Initiative. They currently serve as the Creative Director for Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists and the Interim Line Producer at The Bearded Ladies Cabaret.
Cat earned a B.A. from Vassar College in Drama. They are an alum of the National New Play Network Producer-In-Residence Program, and are a recipient of Bonaly Reviews’ Unsung Hero and Powerful Producing Awards. In 2018, Cat was honored by Governor Wolf's Advisory Committee on Asian Pacific American Affairs for their work furthering Asian American Theater in Philadelphia.