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.

Books

  • The Way of Story: The Craft & Soul of Writing[1]
  • Heal Your Self with Writing (Nautilus Book Award 2014)
  • What Story Are You Living?
  • Freud's Oracle
  • True Fables: Stories from Childhood
  • Buddha and the Dancing Girl: A Creative Life
  • Remarkable Women: Four Plays (2023)
  • East and West: Stories of India (Pippa Rann Books, UK, 2023)

Television

  • Child of Destiny (Last Queen of Hawaii)
  • It’s Only Women (The Dalkon Shield Scandal) NBC
  • Death of an Innocent Child (starring Ellen Burstyn)
  • Summertime (Hallmark Hall of Fame)
  • Touched by an Angel (series episodes)

Film

  • The Pact
  • Sammy and Son (Universal feature)
  • Wolfbride
  • Poe: The Dark Angel
  • The Christmas Wife (starring Jason Robards, Julie Harris) – HBO, 4 Emmy Nominations
  • Unlikely Angel (starring Dolly Parton) - CBS
  • Angel Passing (co-writer), (starring Hume Cronyn, Calista Flockhart) -15 Awards

Plays

  • Freud’s Oracle
  • Calamity Jane
  • Calamity Jane the Musical (Best Production 2015)
  • The Women of Cedar Creek (NY Drama League Award, Beverly Hills Th. Guild Award)
  • The Myth of Annie Beckman
  • On the Edge: The Final Years of Virginia Woolf (NEA Award)
  • Somewhere-in-Between
  • Difficult Friends
  • The Hill
  • The Friend
  • A Fairytale for Adults
  • Always a Tomorrow

Personal life

When Jones was 19 she met the East Indian writer and novelist Raja Rao who was lecturing on Indian philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin.[2] They were married in Paris in 1965 and had one son, Christopher Rama Rao. The twenty-year marriage ended in divorce in 1986.[3] She has one son and two grandsons. Jones offers writing workshops in the United States, UK, Europe, Middle East, and Asia. She lives in Ojai, CA, and also works as a writing consultant and psychic reader. wayofstory.com

References

  1. ↑ Harry Binford. "Krotona Programs – Theosophical Society in America". theosophical.org. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  2. ↑ "Back in her spiritual home". The Hindu. 19 July 2011. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  3. ↑ "Raja Rao". The Telegraph. 18 July 2006. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
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