Women Who Defend the Patriarchy Will Never Be Safe: Understanding Usha Vance With Catherine Filloux
The Feminist Lens
"Arts & Literature: Playing at Lemkin's House,"
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal: Vol. 20: Iss. 1: 130–131. - Winston, Connie (2026)
2024 Speaker, “Playwright, Cambodia, and Human Rights,” University of Michigan Donia Human Rights Center, Ann Arbor, MI – A talk and a conversation
2021 Video GBH Forum Network: “Catherine Filloux Beyond Borders: Women’s Stories and the Art of Bearing Witness,” Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University, Boston, turning your body into a compass, with Mu Sochua, and moderator, Alexa Jordan
2021 Thresh’s L’Orient, a multidisciplinary production co-created with choreographer Preeti Vasudevan and composer Kamala Sankaram, Guggenheim Works & Process, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Episode Three of The Heart of Art with Elisa Brown on PBS
will focus on the art and artistry of playwright Catherine Filloux, an award-wining French-American playwright and opera librettist who has been writing about human rights and social justice for over 20 years.
This episode of “The Heart of Art” features a one hour program on Catherine’s work! It will air on PBS in Spring 2015.
NBC - "SELMA '65" Playwright Talks About Her Inspiration
Documentary Film “Acting Together on the World Stage"
co-created by Dr. Cynthia E. Cohen, Director of the Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts of Brandeis University,
and filmmaker Allison Lund, in collaboration with Theatre Without Borders, 2011.
Audio Series and Podcast
Podcast “Not to Forgive, but to Understand” discussing topics of genocide and its perpetrators, with hosts Sabah Carrim and Luis Gonzalez-Aponte
Episode: Catherine Filloux: Staging "Lemkin’s House"
2022 Video GBH Forum Network: “Catherine Filloux and Claudia Bernardi, Under the Skin,” Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University, Boston; Filloux’s new play Under the Skin is about the internationally acclaimed visual artist and human rights activist Claudia Bernardi, who is part of a generation that grew up in Argentina under a military junta.
Podcasts 2023
Art Heals All Wounds by Pam Uzzell
Death in Cambodia Life in America
EO 360 by Dave Will
First Online With Fran
The Unpredictable with Host Onder Deligoz
Words First: Talking Text in Opera
“Catherine Filloux and Writing Social Justice”,
Words First: Talking Text in Opera, Conversations between host, Keturah Stickann, and librettists, lyricists, producers, and performing artists about opera text and storytelling to music. 2022
2022 “Catherine Filloux and Writing Social Justice”, Words First: Talking Text in Opera
Conversations between host, Keturah Stickann, and librettists, lyricists, producers, and performing artists about opera text and storytelling to music.
TheatreNow! Interview with Catherine Filloux – Parts I & II
Anne Hamilton is the producer and host of Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow!
Linsey Bostwick serves as Editor.
Voices on Genocide Prevention, Lemkin’s House
Interview by Jerry Fowler
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, September 7, 2006
Radio
Selma ’65 at Pygmalion Productions, 2016
Interview by Doug Fabrizio on Radio West, KUER
‘Selma ‘65’ Looks At The Voting Rights Act And Famous Civil Rights
KPBS News, Accomando, Beth & Schoolov, Katie, (Video, Radio, Print), March, 2015
Radio interview with David Diamond, Artists’ Lives and Careers, 2014
Mia's World, City World Radio
Interview with Catherine Filloux and Marietta Hedges, September 2, 2014
“East Meets West ‘Where Elephants Weep'”
by Andrea Shea
All Things Considered, NPR, Performing Arts, April 29, 2007
Interviews/Articles
For more on my playwriting work about Cambodia and U.S. complicity, see my interview with Dorothy Chow on Death in Cambodia, Life in America.
Collaboration and Commemoration:
A PEN America Member Exclusive Webinar
I'm honored to invite you all to a special (and free!) webinar with PEN Americawhere I'll be joined by two brilliant collaborators — composer Him Sophy and performer/policy analyst Amara Goel — for a timely conversation about craft, collaboration, human rights and our Cambodia-America rock opera Where Elephants Weep, 50 years after the rise of the Khmer Rouge regime.
Johnson, Bayeza, Deen, Filloux, “On Art and Activism”; The Dramatist, The Art and Activism Issue, Vol 25, No 5, May/June 2023
by Eleanor J. Bader, Ms., 2023
“Civil-rights story rings with relevance, 50 years on”
Weist, Ellen Fagg, Salt Lake City Tribune, 2016
“Essential A&E Picks”, Salt Lake City Weekly"
Pygmalion Productions: Selma ’65, 2016
“Playwright to Playwright: Kia Corthron Interviews Catherine Filloux”
by Kia Corthron, Playscripts, Inc. Blog, 2016
Interview: Playwright Catherine Filloux on Theater as Social Activism”
Stein, Navida,, StageBuddy: Your Guide to Entertainment, 2015
Brandeis University Peacebuilding and the Arts News From the Field, 2015
“14 Theatrical Plans to Change the World:
Catherine Filloux’s Selma ‘65 Confronts Voting Rights Rollbacks”
Blankenship, Mark & Coen, Stephanie, American Theatre Magazine, 2014
“Something Happened in That Car…But What?”
Grode, Eric, TDF Stages, 2014
In November 2013 ArtRole's 3rd International Women’s Conference - Iraq, was hosted in the cities of Erbil, Sulaymania and Kirkuk. A theater collaboration between Catherine Filloux and Kurdish theater directors Gaziza Omer and Peshro Hosaen. THE BEAUTY INSIDE, which was first produced in 2005 by New Georges in New York City and InterAct in Philadelphia, was translated into Kurdish by Nawzad Shwani. The actress, Sawan Khaled, who played the key role Yalova, was 17 years old and a second year student at the Fine Arts Institute in Sulaymania. Sawan portrays a 14 year old girl, who was raped, became pregnant and was thrown in a canal by her family, because she dishonored them. Sawan was accompanied by a professional cast of actors from across Iraq, who portrayed many roles.
American Theatre Magazine
“Catherine Filloux's Selma '65 Set for World Premiere at La MaMa”
by Bethany Rickwald
TheatreMania
“Play Inspires Human Rights Panel Discussion at La Mama Theater”
by Serena Solomon
DNA Info New York
“Interview with Catherine Filloux”
by Lydia Stryk
HowlRound: A Journal of the Theater Commons
“Broadway World interviews: Catherine Filloux Talks Libretto for NEW ARRIVALS”
by David Clarke
Interview Playwrights Part 251: Catherine Filloux
by Adam Szymkowicz
Playwright Catherine Filloux on Genocide, Surviving, and Hope
by Marjorie Rivera, Staff Writer
The Wesleyan Argus
The Theatre of Genocide
by Shushan Avagyan
The Armenian Reporter December 22, 2009
STAGE NOTES: DOG AND WOLF
by Tom Murrin
Papermag: Word Up!
ENTRE CHIEN ET LOUP with Catherine Filloux
by Christine Toy Johnson.
The Brooklyn Rail February 2010
Dialogue: An Interview with Catherine Filloux
by P. Carl, Ph.D.
The Playwrights Center
Cambodia's first rock opera hopes its stage will be a bridge
by Miranda Leitsinger
cnn.com/asia, November 30, 2008
Where Theatre and Therapy Meet: a playwright's quest to remember
by Cat Barton
The Phnom Penh Post November 20, 2008
“I Am Here…”
by Sandra Hosking
Insight for Playwrights, Volume 16, Issue 9, September 2008, Arizona p 1-3.
“Theater: In Dialogue--Red Monkey in the Middle: Between Two Worlds with Catherine Filloux,”
by Lydia Stryk & Catherine Filloux,
The Brooklyn Rail, February, 2008, p 79-80.
“Catherine Filloux: Creating on a World Stage”
by Mitch Montgomery
OffOffOnline.com, February 8, 2006.
Lemkin’s House
Interview by Jerry Fowler
Voices on Genocide Prevention, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, September 7, 2006.
“In Conversation with Catherine Filloux”
by Caridad Svich
The Dramatist, September/October 2003 p 36-38.
Features
2025 Ohio State University, home to the Catherine Filloux archival collection.
2013 Overseas reading tour to Sudan and South Sudan organized by the University of Iowa's International Writing Program and supported by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State
"Play Inspires Human Rights Panel Discussion at La MaMa Theater"
by Serena Solomon
DNAinfo
"The Breach," a different kind of disaster drama ...
by Misha Berson
The Arts |Seattle Times, January 13, 2008
Plunging into “The Breach”
Three playwrights immerse themselves in local life as they collaborate
on Southern Rep’s kaleidoscopic new Katrina play
by David Cuthbert
The Times-Picayune, September 8, 2007
“First Person Playwright Joe Sutton on creating work after Katrina”
by Joe Sutton
American Theatre, Vol. 24 No. 7, September 2007, p 50-53.
From bearing witness to writing drama
by Zachary Pincus-Roth
Los Angeles Times, July 22, 2007.
“East Meets West ‘Where Elephants Weep'”,
by Andrea Shea
All Things Considered, NPR, Performing Arts, April 29, 2007
“Where Elephants Weep: A Cambodian opera for modern times”
by Catherine Foster
International Herald Tribune, April 26, 2007.
Rhetorical Memory, Political Theater, and the Traumatic Present
-MEDIA REVIEW by Wendy S Hesford
Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, Fall 2005, Vol XVI No. 2, p 104-117.
Arts: In the Shadow of Darfur, a Playwright Calls for Action
by Rollo Romig
Inter Press Service News Agency, September 27, 2006.
If Cambodia Can Learn to Sing Again
by Patricia Cohen
The New York Times, December 18, 2005
Coping: Fleeing the Killing Fields, but not Escaping
by Anemona Hartocollis
The New York Times, October 17, 2004
Witness to Evil: Visiting Playwright Weaves Personal With Political
by Michael Grossberg
The Columbus Dispatch, March 6, 2003.
Q & A: Asia Source Interview—The Floating Box:
An Interview with Jason Kao Hwang, Jean Randich and Catherine Filloux
Asia Source, A Resource of the Asia Society, July 17, 2001
In Love With the Myth of the ‘Outsider
by Wendy Steiner
The New York Times, March 10, 1996.
Aloïse’s Theater: ‘The Price of Madness’
by Kerry Eielson
Le Francophile, No 7- February, 1996, New York p 26-27.
Film / Television