Catherine Ann Jones holds a graduate degree in Depth Psychology and Archetypal Mythology from Pacifica Graduate Institute where she has also taught. After playing major roles in over fifty 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 & Julie Harris),
Unlikely Angel (Dolly Parton), and the popular TV series,
Touched by an Angel. A Fulbright Research Scholar to India studying shamanism, she has taught at The New School University, University of Southern California, and the Esalen and the Omega Institutes. Her books,
The Way of Story: the craft & soul of writing, Heal Your Self with Writing (Nautilus Book Award 2014)
, and
What Story Are You Living? are used in many schools, including New York University writing programs. Her latest publication is
Freud’s Oracle, a 1-woman play which has had five productions to date. Based in Ojai, California, she leads
The Way of Story and
Heal Your Self with Writing, workshops throughout the United States, Europe, Middle East, and Asia. Over 50,000 subscribers for online courses, blog, workshop schedule, keynote talks, and writing consultant services please visit
www.wayofstory.com