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Catherine Eaton currently teaches the Art of the Pitch class at Harvard, where she trains actors, writers, screenwriters, TV writers, novelists and non-fiction writers how to pitch stories to producers, publishers, agents and studios. Catherine is a multi-talented writer, director, producer and actor. Her success in pitching stories, in person and on paper, is evinced by her record of success. She was director and writer of the feature film The Sounding starring Harris Yulin (Ozark) and Frankie Faison (The Wire). To date, the film has won two dozen awards on the festival circuit including four Festival Grand Prizes. Catherine was chosen for Tribeca's prestigious Through Her Lens lab and grant for her pitch and pilot of her TV show On The Outs. She was also selected as a shadowing director for Ryan Murphy's Half Initiative on the hit Fox show 9-1-1. Catherine's pitch for her latest series Breaking News, based on her personal experience working with freelance news crews in conflict zones, landed her a selection for the Project Forum of the Independent Filmmaker Project, where she then pitched to 46 producers in a week. Her feature film pitch and script for Two Women in the Wild Ground resulted in her selection as a finalist for the Sundance Development Labs. Catherine shares an Emmy Award with the production team on "The Human Toll of Ethanol" for Bloomberg TV. She has acted on Broadway and in television and film. Her background as a classically-trained actor is a valuable asset to storytellers in her pitching classes. Catherine has a BA from Cornell University and an MFA from the University of MN / Guthrie Theatre. See Catherine's website here.