Catherine was born just outside of Portland, Oregon to a Mexican American father and a Danish American mother. Not long after, her family moved to Spain, in a town called Sant Cugat del Valles, just outside of Barcelona. She lived there for the first couple years of her life, and it was there that she learned to speak Spanish and got to experience many different cultures. Once back in the Pacific Northwest, Catherine began dancing ballet at age 4, and quickly picked jazz and tap not long after. She quickly fell in love with the influential work of choreographers such as Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse, and George Balanchine.

Catherine graduated Summa Cum Laude with her Bachelor of Music in Music Theater from Oklahoma City University, and a year later made her national tour debut in The Cher Show national tour in the ensemble and understudying Babe. She’s had the opportunity to perform in a wide range of productions, such as Pippin, Spamalot, West Side Story, and Flashdance the Musical. She’s also been able to step into a few creative roles as choreographer for Cabaret and Offenbach’s opera Orpheus in the Underworld, which includes the iconic Can-Can.

In her spare time, she can be found exploring local bakeries, keeping up with the latest haute couture runways, and watching classic films with her calico cat, Marianne, named after Marianne Dashwood from Sense & Sensibility.