Catherine Fargher
- Writer
- Producer
Catherine is an AWGIE award-winning scriptwriter, theatre and digital/new-media producer, whose scripts have been produced for games, trans-media, radio, puppetry, hybrid performance, theatre and children's theatre by Sydney Opera House, Redmoon Theatre Chicago, Dr Egg Digital/Adventure Lab, Experimental Art Foundation/ Vitalstatistix (SA), ABC Radio Airplay, Terrapin Puppet Theatre, Vitalstatistix National Women's Theatre, Sidetrack Performance Group, Death Defying Theatre, and Theatre of the Deaf.
In 2008 she completed a Doctorate of Creative Arts at Wollongong University where she developed Hybrid Performance Texts from Contemporary Bioethical Fables.
Her award-winning play Dr Egg and the Man with No Ear, a new media and puppetry production (Sydney Opera House) received critical acclaim and toured the US and Canada from 2008-2010. Catherine won the 2011 AWGIE (national script-writing awards) for Children's Theatre for Dr Egg and The Man with No Ear. As Creative Director of Dr Egg Digital/Adventure Lab Pty Ltd, she has developed an interactive story-world on a range of digital platforms, featuring games, stories and an interactive online laboratory, The Dr Egg Adventures. R and D and early MVP's were funded by the Literature Brd. and Inter-arts fund of the Australia Council. In 2013-14 she received an established writer New Work grant to write the full prose and interactive versions of The Dr Egg Adventures. In 2015 she traveled to SXSW in the US to explore immersive and interactive writing and production methodologies.
In 2016 she was awarded a space at the Macquarie University Incubator Hub, to develop the business to undertake commercialization of the first market products for the Dr Egg Adventures books, games and interactive online laboratory. A hard copy book, has been put under contract with micro- publisher Tiny Owl Workshop in Brisbane.