Catie O’Keefe holds a BA in Theatre from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon USA and a Masters in Playwriting from Royal Holloway University of London UK.  Her work has been performed in London at the Jerwood Centre, Southwark Theatre, Henley Fringe Festival, The Royal Court Upstairs, Theatre 503 and The Bread and Roses Theatre. She has had productions at both the 2008 and 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festivals in Scotland. She participated in the Fall 2007 session of the Royal Court’s Young Writers Program and also the 2008 Invitation Class back at the Royal Court.  The Space Between My Head and My Body premiered at London’s Theatre 503 and then transferred to the Underbelly Baby Belly 3 in Edinburgh  (available for purchase through Original Works Publishing). Deception, Illusion and Nate has been performed in the US and as part of the Dyssing Monday’s Dyslexic festival in October 2008 and again in the Henley Fringe Festival in July 2009 in the UK. Extraction was produced in March 2010 at the Camden Etc. Theatre and then in June 2011 in New York City with Davenport Theatrical.   An Apartment with Grace was one of six winners to be produced for The Louisiana State University Outworks Festival in April 2010.

She served as Playwright in residence at  New Edgecliff Theatre 2010-2013 during which they produced Darker (also available through Original Works Publishing) in the 2011 Cincinnati Fringe Festival,  Poe-ssessed in Oct 2011, The Canterville Ghost in Oct 2012, Slow Descent From Heaven in Feb 2013 and Frankenstein in Oct. 2013. She wrote and directed Welcome Home: The Waddie Welcome Story at the historical Emery Theatre in May 2012. Flight 212 debuted in Cleveland OH and then transferred to Cincinnati and finally Portland Oregon, it was her first show for a puppet and a human. She has been part of an on-going workshop project, Fantasies and Nightmares, taking place in New York.

In 2016 she created a new piece of work in collaboration with Amy Fritsche and Courtney Brown (both professors at Kent State University) which toured through London (Bread and Roses Theatre) and Edinburgh (2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe) called Best Intentions. In 2017 she wrote a prequel to Darker called Illuminated which was read at Dobama Theatre and then later performed at Convergence Continuum.  Her play Mags received a reading as part of the Dobama Theatre’s Playwrights Gym which she was part of for two years (2016-2018).

She finished the play Simulation through the Chicago based group, The Midwives did a bit of teaching playwriting workshops at Nova Southeastern University. Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic O’Keefe has taken a small break from productions and her last play was performed in the Summer of 2019 at the inaugural Borderlight Fringe Festival in Cleveland, OH (Aim’d so near).

However, she continues to be the Artistic Director of Shark Eat Muffin Theatre Company and a recipient of the Peggy Ramsay Grant and was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for FY 2018. She is a member of the New Play Exchange and The International Center for Women Playwrights. Her work can be seen in the UK, US and Amsterdam.