Catherine Butterfield is an American playwright, TV/film writer and actress. Her play Joined at the Head was performed at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 1992 and won the Robert L. Stevens/Kennedy Center award for excellence, as well as being published in Best Plays of 1992-93 (ISBN 0-87910-173-3). Mel Gussow wrote, "In this, her first full-length play to be presented in New York, Butterfield is revealed as a playwright with a refreshing talent for probing the reality of relationships. In a manner related to that of Tom Stoppard and John Guare, the work deals enticingly with truth and fiction... a vibrant reflection on life and art." (New York Times, November 19, 1992, "When an Old Friendship Is More Than It Seems".) Subsequent award-winning plays include Life in the Trees (Davie award—Best new play in regional theatre) and The Sleeper (2004 Kaufman and Hart Prize for new American comedy.)

In television, she has been a writer/producer for Ghost Whisperer

Ghost Whisperer

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, Party of Five

Party of Five

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, and Fame LA. For the web, she wrote and directed the short film John's Hand which can be seen at www.strike.tv and was an official entry at the Asheville Film Festival and Los Angeles Hi-Def Film Festival. She wrote a screenplay for Participant films based on the life of Susie Krabacher, Playboy centerfold turned child-savior of Haiti, and is currently developing a film for Lifetime TV based on the life of teen-aged violinist Tiffany Clay, about whom a heart-rending New York Times article was recently written.

Butterfield was born in Manhattan

Manhattan

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 and raised in Edina, Minnesota

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, and Hingham, Massachusetts

Hingham, Massachusetts

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, the daughter of a television executive. The eldest of five, she graduated from Southern Methodist University

Southern Methodist University

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 with a BFA in drama and began her career as an actress in regional theatre (Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Oregon Shakespeare Festival

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is a regional repertory theatre in Ashland, Oregon, United States. The festival annually produces eleven plays on three stages during a season that lasts from February to October...

, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Seattle Repertory, Long Wharf, later starring in New York productions of her plays Joined at the Head, Snowing at Delphi, Where the Truth Lies and Bobo's Birthday, a one woman show.

Published plays include:

Joined at the Head - Dramatists Play Service
Life in the Trees - Dramatists Play Service
Snowing at Delphi - Dramatists Play Service
Where the Truth Lies - Samuel French
The Sleeper—Dramatists Play Service
No Problem (One act play)-- Samuel French

Anthologies and Collections include:
Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 1992(Smith and Krause, ISBN 1067-327 X
One on One - The Best Women's Monologues for the Nineties (Jack Temchin, ISBN 1-55783-152-1)
Off-Off Broadway Festival Play, Series 13 - Samuel French, ISBN 0-573-062364-3)
The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 1994 (Smith and Kraus)

Links:
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0125278/
http://doollee.com/PlaywrightsB/butterfield-catherine.html