About
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Catherine diGiacomo Sholtis is an actor, singer, writer, and creator working in New York City. She is a graduate of Xavier University with degrees in Theatre Performance and Political Science.
Sholtis has worked in on-stage collaborations with The Young Americans, Fault Line Theatre Company, and The Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, as well as with Tony Award winning artistic director Ed Stern. She has also been part of numerous independent films that received recognition at the Dayton Independent Film Festival and the Ohio Valley Student Emmys. |
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 theater administrator at New Victory Theater and Theatre Row; 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
Spring / 2024
Catherine joins 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.
Winter / 2023-2024
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.
Summer / 2022
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).
Catherine joins 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.
Winter / 2023-2024
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.
Summer / 2022
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).
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. |