Catharine Robertson is a writer and storyteller living in Baltimore.
About Catharine
Catharine Robertson is a writer, storyteller, and retired comedian. She was the managing co-editor of the 60th anniversary issue of Welter and is a Klein Teaching Fellow at the University of Baltimore’s MFA program in creative writing, where she is an MFA candidate. Her work has appeared in Yellow Arrow Vignette.
For nearly 20 years Catharine has been telling true, personal tales for audiences of up to 1000 people for the Stoop Storytelling series, Ignite Baltimore, Vauxhall Variety Show, and TEDxBaltimore. (Some favorites: Sex show and Duet story with her birth mother.) She wrote and acted in comedy sketches for the Stoop Live Radio Shows at Centerstage; was a performer, troupe director, and Executive Director of the Baltimore Improv Group; and co-founded the Baltimore Improv Festival. She has also worked as a science writer and editor, a designer, a member of the faculty at Maryland Institute College of Art, and a public health strategist.
Catharine loves traveling with her husband Ron, walking with her dogs around Baltimore, and rooting for her beloved Premier League team, Arsenal.
Featured story: Adoption search & reunion
Catharine was adopted during the Baby Scoop Era of closed adoptions when her original identity was forever sealed away by the Commonwealth of Virginia. It took her 25 years of searching on her own to find her sprawling birth family. This Ignite Baltimore talk covers the history of US adoption laws, Catharine’s 25-year search, and what she found.