Catherine Trieschmann
Theatre Director
Contact Information
Email ctmiller4@fhsu.edu
Phone (785) 628-4449
Office Malloy 102
Catherine Trieschmann is an award-winning playwright and teaching artist whose work has been produced Off-Broadway, Off-West End in London and in major regional theaters around the country. Her published plays include Crooked (NY Times Critics Pick), How the World Began, The Most Deserving, Holy Laughter, and The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock. They are published by Concord Theatricals and Dramatic Publishing in the U.S .and by Bloomsbury in the U.K. She is the recipient of the Weissberger Award, the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award from the William Inge Playwriting Festival, a two-time Edgerton New Play Awardee, and an Alfred P. Sloan commission from Manhattan Theater Club.
As a teaching artist, Ms. Trieschmann has conducted classes and workshops in playwriting, acting and improv for an array of institutions, including the American College Theater Festival at the Kennedy Center, the Playwright’s Center, Ithaca College, the University of Maryland, the William Inge Theater Festival, Kansas State University and Ball State University. She also spent five years serving as a teaching artist in public and private secondary schools in the Washington D.C. area for Arena Stage. She received her M.F.A. in dramatic writing from the University of Georgia.
A multi-disciplinary writer, Ms. Trieschmann also enjoys writing screenplays and musicals. She penned the screenplay Angel’s Crest, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was distributed by Magnolia Pictures, starring Jeremy Piven, Mira Sorvino, Elizabeth McGovern and Kate Walsh. She is the book writer and lyricist for a new musical, Ghost Girl with composer Alex Underwood and wrote a new libretto for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony which premiered at the Ad Astra Music Festival.
Ms. Trieschmann has lived in Hays for almost two decades, where she enjoys engaging in the local arts scene. Some of her favorite community projects include directing Next to Normal for the Ad Astra Music Festival, writing youth plays for the Hays Symphony and producing an original radio play, Unplugged, with the Hays High School theater students during the Covid-19 pandemic.