BUA - Buffalo United Artists

Caitlin's acting career began at an early age when she performed shows for her family after Sunday dinners. Her career gained momentum during the summer of 1980 when she was cast in her first play, The Music Man, at the Buffalo Jewish Community Center. She attended the Buffalo High School for the Performing Arts, where she worked with Fortunato Pezzimenti on Linklater and Berry Voice Production, as well as an extremely successful production of Liz Swados' Runaways (a co-production of the African American Cultural Center).

Caitlin attended the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNYAB) where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Theater, with concentrations in performance and design. While at SUNYAB, Caitlin performed in over a dozen plays, including Camino Real; In the Jungle of the Cities; Rich and Famous; The Desert Encroaches; and The Good Women of Setzuan, with renowned director/writer Kazmierz Braun. After living in Chicago for a short time, she returned to Buffalo and appeared in SUNYAB's production of Lanford Wilson's The Hot_l Baltimore, (sic) a performance for which she was a finalist in the American College Theater Festival.

Caitlin has been seen in several Buffalo productions, including The House of Blue Leaves, Voyage Around My Father, The Macanaspie Triangle, and Old Lovers. She has appeared in three "Shakespeare for Children" shows (by Buffalo's Gideon Productions), as well as in Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar, both produced as part of Buffalo's annual "Shakespeare in the Park" festival.

Some of Caitlin's other professional theater endeavors include her co-creation of Buffalo's notorious performance art group Schtoinck, which was a recipient of a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts of The Rockefeller Foundation.

When asked to be a part of BUA in November 1994, Caitlin was thrilled at the prospect of working with a theater company "that has not only guts, but also has members with integrity." Her involvement with BUA encompasses everything that she loves about the theater.

Caitlin's first worked with BUA was as a designer for the company's production of Harvey Fierstein's Safe Sex. She then designed costumes for BUA's acclaimed production of Brad Fraser's Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love. Since then, she has performed in/designed costumes for BUA's productions of The Twilight of the Golds, Poor Super Man, and Quilt. She also performed in the short play, The Madness of Lady Bright, which was performed as part of BUA's PrideFest 1995. Most recently, she appeared as Heidi in The Heidi Chronicles and appeared in Psychopathia Sexualis.