Christin Eve Cato

Christin Eve Cato, is an award-winning luminary playwright, filmmaker, and actor. As a prolific playwright, Cato's recent off-Broadway production and 2024 Obie award-winning play, Sancocho at the WP Theatre (March 2023; co-produced by the Latinx Playwrights Circle, WP Theatre, and The Sol Project), garnered high acclaim. As a performer, Cato is explosive on the stage and periodically performs throughout New York City and across America, entertaining audiences of all kinds. An advocate for diversity and inclusion, Cato's efforts have earned her recognition from celebrities like John Leguizamo- you can find Cato making a cameo appearance on the MSNBC docuseries, Leguizamo Does America. Beyond the stage, Cato's impact extends to film, where she has produced, starred in, and written award-winning independent short films that have been showcased at prestigious festivals, including the Chicago Latino Film Festival, the New York Latino Film Festival, and the Las Cruces International Film Festival. Her latest short film, American Made, an adaptation of her original short play (a finalist for the 2022 Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival), reached international audiences as an official selection of the 2023 Toronto Lift-Off Film Festival.