Cat Brooks (she/her) has been performing on stage & screen for over 30 years. After receiving her BA in theater, she trained briefly at the Royal National Theater Studio in London. Cat is an actress, director, playwright, dramaturg, resident artist with the Lower Bottom Playaz and 3 Girls Theater and a member of the 2024-2025 Resident Playwright cohort with Playwrights Foundation. Notable roles include Lady Macbeth at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and starring in her one-woman show ‘Tasha, about the in-custody murder of Natasha McKenna. Brooks has been nominated Best Featured Actress by the Bay Area Theater Circle Critics and ‘Tasha won the Best of the SF Fringe Festival in 2017, 3 Girls Theater Salon Series Playwright Festival in 2018 and was featured in the 2019 BAMBD Festival in Oakland. Her short film “Bottled Spirits ” is currently touring the global film festival circuit winning nominations and awards. She’s the co-founder and executive director of the Anti Police-Terror Project and hosts Law & Disorder on KPFA weekday mornings. Cat was also the runner-up in Oakland’s 2018 mayoral election, facing incumbent Libby Schaaf.