Catherine Vouvray doesn’t exactly look like that picture anymore. She’s changed, like a good protagonist. Like her characters (often older women) who take control and force change in their stories even as they undergo metamorphosis.

Her work deals with the invisible, the hidden, the masks we wear as cover stories, and the underlying mental issues that drive us. She explores darkness through the lens of humor, and love through miscommunication and mishaps. Rom-coms, half-hour comedies, feature dramas, and psychological thrillers all have spots in her script portfolio. Her fiction portfolio is equally mixed in genre and tone. Her protagonists are often undervalued, unsung, and marginalized. Diversity is a touchstone for her, as is solid representation of the queer community. She has written a handful of novel manuscripts and is now seeking representation.

A recent graduate of the James A. Michener Center for Writers, Vouvray is eyeball and earball deep in musicals. (We won’t stop to consider whether ears have balls. It’s bad enough they have stirrups.) When not writing or making films, she is obsessively playing the piano, attending the theater with her partner, reading with her cat (who remains illiterate), or texting her daughter, who had the audacity to attend college out-of-state.