A Fortunate Life  

Catherine Brophy was born, reared and educated in Dublin. She has been a teacher, an audiologist. Lecturer, work-shop facilitator and she has travelled the world. Now she is a full-time writer and story-teller.

She leads a blameless life in Ireland but travels whenever she can. She’s been rescued by a circus troupe in Serbia, had breakfast with a Zambian chief, ate camel stew in the Sahara, and was kicked by a horse on the Mexican plain. Yeah…she has a couple of stories to tell.

This show is a number of linked stories of Catherine's family and life in an Ireland that has changed hugely during her lifetime. It is also a social history of Ireland in past times. The stories are all entertaining and might even make you laugh out loud.

Catherine’s stories are often humorous. She tells a wide variety of stories: Fairy stories, ghost stories, myth and legend, folk stories, travel and personal stories. The choice depends on the audience.

She has told stories, and facilitated workshops, in schools and libraries, at festivals, in the Abbey Theatre and at story venues in Germany, Poland, Netherlands, U.S.A., Denmark, Scotland and Morocco. She has recently performed her one woman show A Fortunate Life in the Glens Arts Centre, Manorhamilton.

More work from Catherine:

NOVELS
THE LIBERATION OF MARGARET MC CABE - Wolfhound Press and Flamingo
DARK PARADISE - Wolfhound Press
ZOUAVES – soon to be published on Amazon.
BURNING BRIGHT –published on Amazon.
SHORT STORIES
GIGOLOS FOR JESUS AND OTHER STORIES -. Individual stories published in various magazines. Collection on Amazon

TELEVISION
Senior scriptwriter for FAIR CITY for nine seasons.
Script Editor for season five.
A CURE FOR PHOBIAS – half hour drama for Celtic Horror series in development with Crimson Films.
Panel member on R.T.E’s Arts Programme “The View.”

RADIO
Regular contributor to Sunday Miscellany. (RTE Radio 1.)

FILMS.
BLOW-IN – half hour drama in development Stoney Road Films.
LEB STORY – full-length film script in development, Stoney Road Films.
BURNING BRIGHT – full-length screenplay base on my novel just completed.

STORYTELLING:
Catherine tells folk stories, myths and legends, personal stories and stories of her travels. She is happy to tell stories to audiences of any age. She has told stories in Scotland, Germany Poland, Denmark, Netherlands U.S, Morocco and here in Ireland.

WORKSHOPS:
Catherine has facilitated writing and story-telling workshops in Ireland, Holland, U.S, Germany and Hungary for students and adults for the past 20 years