Catherine Scott Burriss earned her PhD in Performance Studies with the Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality from UC Berkeley, and received a BA in Theatre Arts and a Graduate Certificate in Drama from UC Santa Cruz. She has been teaching, studying, and creating theater for over a decade, working on productions at Shakespeare Santa Cruz, the Montréal Fringe Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and Thick Description (in San Francisco), and guiding students at UC Santa Cruz, San Francisco State, UC Berkeley, and California Institute of the Arts. Catherine currently pursues her adventures in performance and pedagogy as an Assistant Professor of Performing Arts at California State University Channel Islands, the newest of the CSUs.