CATHERINE ROGERS

Catherine Rogers, MFA, MS, is Associate Director and Lecturer in the Narrative Medicine Program at Columbia University and co-director of Narrative Medicine International. Catherine is a playwright and performer living and working in New York. A two-time Fulbrighter to Greece and current Fulbright Specialist, she has developed programs in narrative medicine at Aristotle University, the University of Athens, and the Takis Sinopoulos Poet’s House. For the past 11 years, she has been designing, teaching, and facilitating programs in narrative medicine at hospitals, universities, nursing schools, and cultural centers in the U.S. and abroad. Prior to her work at Columbia, Catherine was assistant professor of humanities at NYU, editor at Lincoln Center Institute, and a playwright in the schools for Theatre for a New Audience, New York. Her plays, performances and other writings have been seen most recently at 29th Street Playwrights in Athens, Greece; at Cleveland Public Theatre; Theatre Complicité London; The Gettysburg Review; and TDR/Drama Review. Catherine was a James A. Michener Fellow at the University of Texas and is a current member of SAG/AFTRA and the Dramatists Guild.