CATHERINE FILLOUX is an award-winning playwright, whose new play LUZ premieres in Fall 2012 at La MaMa in New York City, where she is an Artist in Residence. Filloux is currently writing a commissioned one-woman play for the actress Marietta Hedges surrounding the civil rights movement and the KKK.  Filloux’s libretto, New Arrivals, for Houston Grand Opera, Song of Houston, premiered in June 2012, composed by John Glover.  Her more than twenty plays have been produced in New York City and around the world. She is the librettist for Where Elephants Weep (Composer Him Sophy), which premiered in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and The Floating Box: A Story in Chinatown (Composer Jason Kao Hwang), which opened at Asia Society and is released by New World Records. Filloux’s awards include: Voice Award for Artistic Works (Voices of Women), New Generations-Future Collaborations Award (Mellon Foundation/TCG), PeaceWriting Award (Omni Center for Peace), Critics Choice Opera News, Roger L. Stevens Award (Kennedy Center), Eric Kocher Playwrights Award (O’Neill) and the Callaway Award (New Dramatists). She is a Fulbright Senior Specialist (Cambodia & Morocco), Asian Cultural Council Grant, NEA and MAP Fund recipient, and also a Core Writer (The Playwrights’ Center) and New Dramatists alumna. Filloux’s plays are widely published and her play anthologies include Dog and Wolf & Killing the Boss, Two Plays, NoPassport Press, and Silence of God and Other Plays, published by Seagull Books, London Limited.  She lives in New York City with her husband John Daggett.