Catherine Ann Jones

Catherine Ann Jones (Katherine Rao) is a prize-winning playwright as well as an actor and short story writer.

After playing major roles in over 55 plays on and off Broadway, she became disappointed by the lack of good roles for women and wrote a play, "On the Edge", about Virginia Woolf and her struggle with madness in a world gone mad, Hitler, and WWII. The play won a National Endowment for the Arts Award. Eleven of her plays, including "Calamity Jane" (both play and musical), "The Women of Cedar Creek", and "Freud’s Oracle", have won multiple awards and are produced both in and out of New York. Her films include "The Christmas Wife" (Jason Robards and Julie Harris), "Unlikely Angel" (Dolly Parton), and the popular TV series, "Touched by an Angel".

A Fulbright Research Scholar to India (to study shamanism), she holds a graduate degree in Depth Psychology and Archetypal Mythology from Pacifica Graduate Institute where she has also taught. She has also taught at The New School University in NYC, University of Southern California in Los Angeles, the Esalen and Omega Institutes, and many venues abroad. Her books all arise from these experiences.

Based in Ojai, CA, she leads The Way of Story, Heal Your Self with Writing, and Writing Your Memoir workshops throughout the U.S. Europe, Middle East and Asia. Over 60,000 have subscribed to her six online courses.