Catherine Vouvray doesn’t exactly look like that picture anymore. She’s changed, like a good protagonist. Like her, her characters (often older women) 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.

Currently a third-year fellow of the 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.) She’s just finished writing a historical rom-com musical feature screenplay and is now developing her first stage musical. When not writing, she is obsessively playing the piano, attending the theater, reading with her cat (who remains illiterate), or texting her daughter, who had the audacity to attend college out-of-state.