About
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Catherine diGiacomo Sholtis is an actor, writer, and voiceover artist based in New York City. Her background in character-driven performance inspires her interests in developing new work with emerging artists about class, womanhood, and a better world order, or reimagining classical text to challenge audiences afresh. Catherine’s stage and screen presence is informed by time spent as a mime, a yogi, and a physical theatre practitioner. While a proud Michigander, she earned degrees in political science and theatre in Cincinnati, Ohio, with continued performance studies in Arezzo, Italy.
diGiacomo Sholtis has worked in on-stage collaborations with The Young Americans, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, and Columbia University's New Play Festival. Other artistic endeavors include voice acting with Audible's ACX and figure modeling for the School of Visual Arts. |
Is that what you think I'm here for? Fun? I am here for my salary, and to periodically use an ill-advised British accent, and to get people that I don't know to like me.” |
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Other professional roles include 2025 resident company member with The American Mime Theatre; theater administrator at Theatre Row and New Victory Theatre; Box Office and House Manager for Fault Line Theatre Company; Regular Theatre company member; theatre and dance teaching assistant, staff company member, and counselor at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Muskegon Michigan; and production assistant for Shakespeare in Detroit.
See Gallery for Photo Credits 
As The Friend in Broken Arpeggio at Columbia University, 2024
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Lulu, Xavier University Theatre's "Cabaret" 2018
Sholtis as Charlotte Spielberg in the 2019 world premiere of Liba Vaynberg's "Oxford Comma"
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Recent Work
Fall 2025
Catherine diGiacomo Sholtis returns to Upper Manhattan as Titania and Hippolyta in Emerson Haven's graduate thesis production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Spring 2025
Invited to join the resident company of the newly reformed American Mime Theatre, Catherine rehearses with an exclusive company of eleven other physical theatre professionals. The performing company, directed by Janet Carafa, devises standalone pieces and develops technical skills in this French-inspired, yet uniquely American tradition.
2022- 2024
Sholtis recently completed a physical theatre intensive at l'Accademia dell'Arte located in Arezzo, Italy. She received training in Fitzmaurice Voicework and storytelling from GianGiacomo Colli (Heatfeltricks, Texas State University, University of Bologna), and Dory Rebekah Sibley (Women from Mars Theatre, Tut'Zanni, Coastal Carolina University), as well as Commedia dell'Arte under Chiara D'Anna (RADA, Panta Rei Theatre). T2024-2024, Catherine was recruited by her longtime collaborator and Fault Line Theatre Junior Producer Hannah Sgambellone for a reading of Michael Oak's play, Danny Ryan's Wake. As part of a wider, Friel-esque Irish cycle, Sholtis played duel roles - a blushing bride and a wife in decline. Additionally, Catherine joined the Heights Players company for their January production of Prelude to a Kiss. In Spring 2024, Catherine joined the cast of Columbia MFA playwright Diane Davis' Broken Arpeggio, directed by Miles Sternfeld. In a memory play about tyrannical mothers and an even more tyrannical addiction, Sholtis plays the eldest of four daughters in a second-generation, Greek-American family. Sacrificing her piano virtuosity for parental expectation, she watches her sister's descent into drug use with grief and resentment.
Catherine diGiacomo Sholtis returns to Upper Manhattan as Titania and Hippolyta in Emerson Haven's graduate thesis production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Spring 2025
Invited to join the resident company of the newly reformed American Mime Theatre, Catherine rehearses with an exclusive company of eleven other physical theatre professionals. The performing company, directed by Janet Carafa, devises standalone pieces and develops technical skills in this French-inspired, yet uniquely American tradition.
2022- 2024
Sholtis recently completed a physical theatre intensive at l'Accademia dell'Arte located in Arezzo, Italy. She received training in Fitzmaurice Voicework and storytelling from GianGiacomo Colli (Heatfeltricks, Texas State University, University of Bologna), and Dory Rebekah Sibley (Women from Mars Theatre, Tut'Zanni, Coastal Carolina University), as well as Commedia dell'Arte under Chiara D'Anna (RADA, Panta Rei Theatre). T2024-2024, Catherine was recruited by her longtime collaborator and Fault Line Theatre Junior Producer Hannah Sgambellone for a reading of Michael Oak's play, Danny Ryan's Wake. As part of a wider, Friel-esque Irish cycle, Sholtis played duel roles - a blushing bride and a wife in decline. Additionally, Catherine joined the Heights Players company for their January production of Prelude to a Kiss. In Spring 2024, Catherine joined the cast of Columbia MFA playwright Diane Davis' Broken Arpeggio, directed by Miles Sternfeld. In a memory play about tyrannical mothers and an even more tyrannical addiction, Sholtis plays the eldest of four daughters in a second-generation, Greek-American family. Sacrificing her piano virtuosity for parental expectation, she watches her sister's descent into drug use with grief and resentment.
Previous Major Works
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Shooter! / 2020
Sholtis reprised her 2018 Fault Line Theatre workshop role as Cookie for the world premiere of Krista Knight's dark comedy, Shooter! ,exploring contrived fear and real-life consequences in the classroom. Directed by Fault Line Theatre founder, Aaron Rossini, at Xavier University. Shooter! has its New York workshop debut with Fault Line Theatre in August, 2022. MR. BURNS: a post-electric play / 2018
Xavier University hosted the regional premiere of Anne Washburn's critically-acclaimed tribute to the power of storytelling, featuring Catherine Sholtis in the roles of Quincy and Bart Simpson. Oxford Comma / 2019
Liba Vaynberg's (59E59, The Tank, Tikkun) world premiere "romance for realists," follows three educators and a bold student as they navigate duel realities with blurred romantic boundaries. Amelia Pedlow (Guthrie Theatre, The Huntington) expertly directs Sholtis as physics teacher Charlotte Spielberg. |