Cait: An Introduction
Cait Redman is a director currently based in Belleville, IL, who has a deep passion for Shakespeare, new works, and devised theatre. She earned her MFA in Shakespeare & Performance from Mary Baldwin University. She believes that theatre is a service industry, and her directorial practice is text-based, rooted in Viewpoints, and caters to a collaborative work environment.
Cait is often found staging works where…
….ghosts appear
….siblings are reunited
….lovers make devastating mistakes
.....women take matters into their own hands
.....and there might be a puppet
When not leading rehearsals, Cait can be found in the wild at her local coffee shop or plant store. She enjoys playing The Cranberries for her aloe plant, Lana Del Aloe. She is a firm supporter of Sriracha hot sauce.

Education
2021-2024
Mary Baldwin University
MFA and MLitt in Shakespeare & Performance
Cait dedicated her time in the Shakespeare & Performance Program to directing Shakespeare and other early modern playwrights (Kyd). Her MLitt thesis focused on reframing the genre of Henry V as a Greek Epic through an analysis of cut scripts of the play.
She co-developed, ran, and was a company member of Meadowlark Shakespeare Players, a one-year Shakespeare company which sought to bring free work to the Staunton, VA community that converses with the early modern canon while welcoming a plurality of modern voices onstage. As a Meadowlark, Cait directed a touring six-person Troilus & Cressida. Her MFA thesis explored her use of Viewpoints as a director in this rehearsal process.
2018-2020
Northwest Missouri State University
Bachelor of Science: Theatre
Cait's theatre education is rooted in performance. She studied as an actor at Northwest Missouri State University and performed as Ross in Macbeth (2019) and Mrs. Butcher Beynon in Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood (2020)
She was an active member of Alpha Psi Omega and directed their Winter touring show: Space Cadet Callie (2019).
2016-2018
Southwestern Illinois College
Associates of Arts
While perusing her Associates, Cait directed A Universal Language by David Ives (2017) and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (2018).