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CATHERINE FILLOUX (Playwright/Librettist) is an award-winning French Algerian American playwright and librettist who has been writing about human rights for many decades. Filloux’s plays and libretti have been produced in the U.S., internationally, and are widely published, anthologized and written about. Catherine’s new trilogy of plays about the environment includes “Olivia,” “Medusa,” and “Deep Time,” developed as part of The Olivia Project at a variety of theaters in New York City. Her new play “Trip of a Lifetime” about Usha Vance is being developed with Hypokrit NYC. Filloux’s epistolary play “Third Person,” about youth and war, recently premiered at CultureHub in New York City, and her new opera “Allegra & the Cello, in Movements” (c CATHERINE FILLOUX (Playwright/Librettist) is an award-winning French Algerian American playwright and librettist who has been writing about human rights for many decades. Filloux’s plays and libretti have been produced in the U.S., internationally, and are widely published, anthologized and written about. Catherine’s new trilogy of plays about the environment includes “Olivia,” “Medusa,” and “Deep Time,” developed as part of The Olivia Project at a variety of theaters in New York City. Her new play “Trip of a Lifetime” about Usha Vance is being developed with Hypokrit NYC. Filloux’s epistolary play “Third Person,” about youth and war, recently premiered at CultureHub in New York City, and her new opera “Allegra & the Cello, in Movements” (composer, Julia Schwartz) will premiere in New York City in 2026. Her play “How to Eat an Orange” was commissioned by INTAR, with the premiere at La MaMa in New York City. Her new play “White Savior” was nominated for The Venturous Play List. Filloux is the librettist for four produced operas: “New Arrivals” (Houston Grand Opera, composer John Glover); “Where Elephants Weep” (Chenla Theatre, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, composer Him Sophy) broadcast on Cambodian national television and on Broadway on Demand; “The Floating Box” (Asia Society, NYC, composer Jason Kao Hwang) an Opera News Critic’s Choice and released by New World Records. Catherine is co-librettist with composer Olga Neuwirth for the opera “Orlando”, premiere at the Vienna State Opera and the 2022 Grawemeyer Award winner. “Orlando” is the first opera by a woman composer and woman librettist at the Vienna Staatsoper and recently premiered in Berlin at the Komische Opera. Filloux’s new musical “Welcome to the Big Dipper” (composer Jimmy Roberts, co-book writer John Daggett) premiered Off-Broadway at the York Theatre in New York City and the original Off-Broadway cast recording is by StarVista Music; it was a National Alliance for Musical Theatre finalist. Catherine has traveled for her plays to conflict areas around the world. She received her French Baccalaureate in Philosophy with Honors in Toulon, France, and her M.F.A. at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing. A speaker and activist, Catherine is the cofounder/co-director of Theatre Without Borders and is featured in the documentary film “Acting Together on the World Stage." www.catherinefilloux.com

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	Silence of God: And Other Plays by Catherine Filloux really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“As an artist, I will rise up and make change”

“It is unacceptable that women still don’t have rights; it’s unacceptable that the poor stay poor.
Now is the time for art, for change, for beauty, and for human rights; I won’t take no for an answer.”
― Catherine Filloux

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