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Catron Booker

Asst Professor

A&S Humanities

  • Asst Professor
    A&S Humanities

BIO

Catron Booker (she/her) is a performance artist, filmmaker, and theatre practitioner.

 

Previous film screenings include Anthology Film Archives (NYC), Seattle Local Sightings Film Fest, Cologne International Videoart Festival, and the GLBT Historical Society of San Francisco. She has also co-directed HABLAMOS, a PSA for the prevention of HIV/AIDS in collaboration with sexual health educators in Guatemala City as a UNESCO grant recipient.

 

As an actor, television roles include guest starring in Days of Our Lives (NBC), performing and facilitating with San Francisco’s New Conservatory program for the prevention of HIV/AIDS and various professional roles in independent film and television. As a theatre educator, she has also facilitated numerous theatre workshops with HIV+ youth for NAPWA as well as having taught spoken-word poetry workshops as an Americorps arts educator at the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center (Chicago). She has also worked in theatre and media production throughout Mexico including translating and editing La Vaca Napux, a children’s educational television series for Vientos Culturales (Chiapas).

 

Performance art works have been presented at Lexington Art League (Lexington, Kentucky), El Balcón (Oaxaca, Mexico), as a featured artist in Obsidian: Literature & Arts of the African Diaspora and in Mexico City at La Gozadera. Artist Residencies include Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida) ACRE (Wisconsin), OFAR (Richmond, Virginia) and Wreck City Residency (Calgary, Canada).

DEGREES

  • MFA
    University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
  • MFA
    University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, United States10 Aug 2010 - 3 Jun 2013