Catherine’s vision with Some Happy Day is to entertain, educate and inspire actions to address homelessness.

Catherine has been employed as a case manager and a crisis worker for over two decades, working with individuals managing complex issues and often experiencing homelessness. Alongside this work she has been employed as an actor, script editor, story consultant, lecturer, and theatre director. She directed the premieres and acclaimed national tours of Secret Bridesmaids Business and It’s My Party (And I’ll Die If I Want To) by Elizabeth Coleman. She also directed the national tours of Max Gillies Live at the Club Republic and the cabaret An Evening with Richard Frankland for the Sydney Opera House. Catherine has developed and edited the scripts for a number of feature films including The Lookalike by Michele Davis-Gray, and Sugar Mountain and Broken Ghost by Abe Pogos.

Drawing on her experience as an artist and welfare worker Catherine wrote, produced and directed Some Happy Day, supported by the social justice organisations that employ her and encouraged by many individuals she has supported.

Some Happy Day was filmed with and in the community where the story is set. Many of the background actors having lived experience of what it is like to be without a home.

Her story of Frances, a social worker and Tina, a woman who has been homeless most of her life, work to shows how interconnected we all are.

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