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About
Cat Tate Starmer
Why light? How can we use it create an emotional landscape and an intimate narrative? How is something so essential so invisible? I'm constantly learning about light: simple, malleable, seeking truth. We find it everywhere and are entranced when it finds us.
My work has been seen off-broadway and at regional theatres. Outside theatre, I've created lighting sculptures and installations that have been presented as community-building immersive experiences in both traditional galleries and found spaces. I make useful art.
In the theatre: Off Broadway productions include Georgia Mertching is Dead at Ensemble Studio Theater; Hold These Truths and Macbeth at Epic Theatre Company; and American Journalero at Working Theater. Regionally, Cat has designed They Promised Her the Moon and Hurricane Diane at the Old Globe; Frankenstein and Steel Magnolias at Guthrie Theater; Murder on the Orient Express and 1984 at Alley Theatre; Buzz at Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Hold These Truths at Barrington Stage Company. International projects include Vital Voices: Seven in Deauville FR.
I'm always looking for the why. Why are we creating this? Why now? Why is it essential? I want to be a part of telling stories that lift unheard and ignored voices. I want to engage with audiences that are overlooked or forgotten. I want to be a part of transforming lives.
"…with gorgeous lighting by Cat Tate Starmer." -The New Yorker