Catalina Florina Florescu holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Purdue University with a double specialization in medical humanities and comparative theater. After the death of her mother because of breast cancer, she found comfort in theater, music, and philosophy. She teaches courses on theater, cinema, and writing at Pace University. She is a published author with books part of the Library of Congress and national and international universities.
Her plays have been developed as hyphenated spaces between personal and collective, arts and medicine, humanities and politics. She is currently working on staging three of her plays professionally, one in NYC, another in London, and a third back home, in Bucharest. An immigrant at heart, Catalina is constantly searching for plurality within individuality. She is also the New Play Development Curator and Dramaturg at Jersey City Theater Center: https://www.jctcenter.org/about/​​