Cat Mew

Catherine "Cat" Grimmell Mew is the former resident director of The Atlanta Lyric Theatre and chair of The Shorter College Theatre Department. She is a current fellow in NYU's Silver School's post-masters/post-doc program in Restorative Justice as well as an Andy Warhol Foundation of the Visual Arts award winning grantee. Mew's plays have been selected as MAP Grant Semi-finalists, Nexus Grant finalists, the runner up in The Tennessee Williams Play Festival, and semi-finalists in TNT Pops.

Catherine "Cat" Grimmell Mew is the former resident director of The Atlanta Lyric Theatre and chair of The Shorter College Theatre Department. She is a current fellow in NYU's Silver School's post-masters/post-doc program in Restorative Justice as well as an Andy Warhol Foundation of the Visual Arts award winning grantee. Mew's plays have been selected as MAP Grant Semi-finalists, Nexus Grant finalists, the runner up in The Tennessee Williams Play Festival, and semi-finalists in TNT Pops.

Scripts

Black Water Wings: A Swamp Play with Music

by Cat Mew

Cast Size
7
Genre
drama,
fable/folktale,
mystery/thriller

Hatchlings grow up fast -- then very, very slow -- on Georgia's diverse Okefenokee Swamp, as do marsh-rock singing teens trying to spread their newly sprung wings in this full-length folktale with music about cryptids, parental care, heritage, and acceptance (in a place where the past and the future may never have been meant to meet).

Hatchlings grow up fast -- then very, very slow -- on Georgia's diverse Okefenokee Swamp, as do marsh-rock singing teens trying to spread their newly sprung wings in this full-length folktale with music about cryptids, parental care, heritage, and acceptance (in a place where the past and the future may never have been meant to meet).

Maison Blanc

Maison Blanc by Cat Mew

Cast Size
7
Genre
docudrama/historic,
period

In 1855 as Yellow Fever continues to decimate the young state of Louisiana, a creole family of apothecaries, midwives, and doctors must wrestle with what the new laws against sage-femmes means for women's survival in a nation less than a century old.

In 1855 as Yellow Fever continues to decimate the young state of Louisiana, a creole family of apothecaries, midwives, and doctors must wrestle with what the new laws against sage-femmes means for women's survival in a nation less than a century old.

Mavens of St. Catherines Island

by Cat Mew

Cast Size
6
Genre
fable/folktale,
musical,
period

On the eve of the great hurricane of 1901, a small community becomes a coven when Georgia women of the isolated Saint Catherines Island summon the divine feminine.

On the eve of the great hurricane of 1901, a small community becomes a coven when Georgia women of the isolated Saint Catherines Island summon the divine feminine.

Falling Flyers

by Cat Mew

Cast Size
3
Genre
drama,
faith-based,
political

In this one-act play, hidden family secrets are exposed in two eras, as antisemitic flyers litter the front lawns of an affluent Marietta Georgia suburb, on the morning of the 108th anniversary of the town fathers' lynching of Leo Frank.

In this one-act play, hidden family secrets are exposed in two eras, as antisemitic flyers litter the front lawns of an affluent Marietta Georgia suburb, on the morning of the 108th anniversary of the town fathers' lynching of Leo Frank.