Catherine Fargher

Catherine Fargher is a performer, writer and teacher working in radio, contemporary performance, new media/hybrid arts, puppetry, film and theatre. As a writer, Catherine has had over twenty scripts produced for companies including the Sydney Opera House, Sidetrack Theatre, Vitalstatistix, Terrapin Puppet Theatre, the Jessica Wilson Company and the Australian National Broadcasting Corporation. Catherine has performed widely in cabaret and contemporary performance in Australia. In 1998 she toured with other Australian, UK and New York artists for It’s Queer up North in Manchester, Glasgow, Warwick and London as well as WOW Café New York. In 2002 she was funded by the Australia Council New Media Fund for the Motherload project, exploring genetic science and human reproductive futures. She has recently completed a Doctorate of Creative Arts at Wollongong University, developing performance texts from bioethical fables. Her performance/Installation BioHome was performed at the Experimental Art Foundation (SA) Art and Biotechnology Revisited event in April 2009. Her bioethical fable Dr Egg and The Man with No Ear was adapted for new a media/puppetry production at the Sydney Opera House in July 2007 and toured to Chicago (REDMOON) in 2008, with a tours of Canada and Alaska in late 2010. She is currently working as a lecturer in screen and stage writing at Wollongong University and adapting Dr Egg for film with director Maia Horniak.