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CATHY BELIEVES IT'S NEVER TOO LATE!
After a dream career in magazine publishing, where she was at the top of the mastheads of magazines such as McCall’s, Seventeen, Country Living, Rosie, and many others, Cathy Cavender decided to return to singing and acting, earlier loves her busy career didn’t allow for. Flash forward just a few years later and so much has happened!
Cathy has been cast in musicals in Connecticut and NYC, acted in dramas off-off Broadway, sung in cabaret showcases all over NYC, and appeared in dozens of film projects (often playing “Mom”).
Favorite roles include Nana in Tuck Everlasting at the White Plains Performing Arts Center's Stage Two, and Ma Strong in Urinetown with the Village Light Opera Group. During the pandemic, she was busy at home with multiple Zoom readings with Chaos Theatre Collective and several rewarding performances with Playzoomers, among other virtual projects.
Cathy has studied at HB Studios, Actors Connection, T. Schreiber Studios, and Bova Actors Workshop. Currently, her wonderful teachers are Andrea Green (voice), Mary Workman (acting and voiceover) and Jill Kenney (basic tap).
Cathy lives in Connecticut with her husband and her cat Bibi Tanga. She gardens, plays tennis, practices yoga, cooks, and loves to travel. But most importantly, she is thrilled to be getting back on stage and on set.
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STATS
Just Another Week | Hofstra University
Guidance Counselor
Affliction | NYU Film
Judge McCabe
What Made You Who You Are | NYU Film
Older Gloria
Evil Lives Here, "I Will Always Be Scared of Him" | Investigation Discovery
Older Deborah
“Time On Your Hands” | “Do Your Best” Web Series
Elaine (Mom)
Grave Secrets, “Secret Vows” | Investigation Discovery
Melody
The Old Place | NYU Film
Ida
Godmother Death | Pratt Institute
Godmother Death
Blue Devils | Independent Film
Sebastian's Mother
Dreamers | Independent Film
Anna
Black Box | Sacred Heart University
Mom
Living the Dream | New York Film Academy
Psychiatrist
Mars Marr | NYU Film
Beth Marr
Valley High | IndieWorks Theatre Company
Jury Forewoman
The Truth About Meeting Women | Paul Gale Comedy
Mom
Height: 5’4”
Eye color: Brown
Voice: Mezzo-soprano (low A to F above high C)
Musical Theater | Kimberly Vaughn, Cheryl Stern
Voice | Andrea Green
Acting | Mary Workman
Basic Tap | Jill Kenney
Voice & Piano | The Peabody Conservatory
B.A. in English | Douglass College, Rutgers University
Accents: Southern; Cockney, British RP
Sight Reading
Piano
Yoga
Tennis
Valid Driver's License
The Sound of Music | Musicals at Richter, Danbury, CT
Sister Margaretta
Triangle Cruise | The Cutting Room
New Age Mystic
The Divas | Ridgefield Theater Barn
Olivia Trent
Tuck Everlasting | White Plains PAC, Stage 2
Nana
Shakespeare In Love | Curtain Call, Stamford, CT
Mistress Quickly, Madrigal
Unaffordably Unhealthy | The Tank, NYC
Featured Monologist
Insanity in the City | New York Theater Festival
Danielle Van Holden
Into the Woods | Musicals at Richter, Danbury, CT
Cinderella's Mother
Urinetown | Village Light Opera Group, NYC
Josephine Strong
The Family Table | Manhattan Repertory Theatre
Teri
Ragtime | Village Light Opera Group, NYC
Ensemble
Anything Goes | Village Light Opera Group, NYC
Ensemble
Follies | Curtain Call, Stamford, CT
Ensemble
Meet Me In St. Louis | Curtain Call, Stamford, CT
Ensemble
A Sketch of New York (Comedy) | The Producers Club
Ensemble
How To Survive Being in a Shakespeare Play | Alpha NYC
Narrator #2
Miles To Sleep, Before I Go | Potomac Playmakers
Lizzie Leister
Imitation of Life | Incarn Live Virtual Theater
Lora
Rent-a-Meemaw | Playzoomers
Meemaw
Sharon's Play | Playzoomers
Vera
Talk! Talk! Talk! | Playzoomers
Whistler's Mother
I'm Herbert | Playzoomers
Muriel
Various Readings | Chaos Theatre Collective
Various Roles
Walpurgisnacht | The Garden of Voices
Vicky
Bill and Mary's Pandemic | The Garden of Voices
Mary
Joan and Nancy | Primary Stages Audio Drama
Nancy
The Shadow Radio Plays | Chaos Theatre Collective
Announcer, General
TRAINING & WORKSHOPS
SPECIAL SKILLS
DIGITAL THEATER
THEATER
VOICEOVER
CABARET & OTHER
Connecticut Yuletide Carolers | MiLo Productions
Caroler
Kimberly Vaughn & Justin Boccito's
Broadway Performance Project
Featured Soloist
Cabarets | Don't Tell Mama, The Duplex, West End, Magnolia Room
Featured Soloist